47 years of fighting for the Pine Bush
Please reserve your dinner today so we know how much lasagna to cook!
Some of our Save the Pine Bush members need a ride to the dinner! What we especially need is someone to drive one of our members who has allergies to animals and fragrance. If you have no pets, don’t wear perfume and would like to help out, please email contact@savethepinebush.org. Thank you!
Spring Hike and Tour – Saturday, May 3, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Meet at: End of Madison Avenue Extension (past the water tower at end of Wash Ave Ext.)
For GPS – 98 Madison Avenue Extension, Albany NY 12203
Leader: Andy Arthur • For More Information: 518-281-9873 or andy@andyarthur.org
Join us as we go springtime walk on re-routed blue trail along the backside of 40 Karner Road undergoing restoration, across a new bridge that crosses above the historic Kiakout Kill Dam once hit by a meteorite. After the hike, we will hop in a car and drive around Pine Bush to see restoration areas and areas under threat of development. Please take the usual precautions against UV radiation and lyme disease: UV sunglasses, sunscreen, wide brimmed hat, light-colored clothing, long-pants and long sleeves.
The event is free and open to the public • Bring you friends!
April/May 2025 Newsletter
Save the Pine Bush Dinner – Wednesday, April, 30 2025 at 6:00 p.m.
Spring Hike and Tour – Saturday, May 3, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Is there hope for the Endangered Karner Blue?
Pyramid turns down IDA tax break for Costco
Proposed Developments in the Pine Bush
From Our September 2024 Dinner … John Cryan on Saving the Pine Bush All Over Again
John Cryan, entomologist and co-founder of the Long Island Pine Barrens Society, spoke about how we have battled preservation to a standoff; we have a preserve, but it’s in pieces and fragments, and still too small. Development continues. John described an optimistic change of approach to work to protect our Pine Bush.
… more in our John Cryan archives!
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View Albany Pine Bush from 1952 through Present Day with Tax Maps, Preserve Areas, Commission Recommendations on our Interactive Mapper!
Help Save the Pine Bush !
There are several proposals to build in the Pine Bush in the Towns of Colonie and Guilderland, and more seem to be coming every day. Save the Pine Bush needs volunteers who would like to work intensely on opposing these proposed projects. Save the Pine Bush uses the State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA), a law that allows citizens to participate in the process. If you are interested in getting more involved in protecting the Pine Bush, in ecology, in SEQRA, or in stopping development in our beautiful Pine Bush, please contact me. No special knowledge is needed – only a passion to protect the Pine Bush. And, I guarantee, it will be an adventure!
Thank you all so much,
Lynne Jackson For Save the Pine Bush
Donate to fight Proposed Developments
Please send a check to:
Save the Pine Bush
c/o Lynne Jackson
223 S Swan Street
Albany, NY 12202