Welcome to Save the Pine Bush!

47 years of fighting for the Pine Bush


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

Save the Pine Bush Mapper


From Our September 2024 DinnerJohn 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


Please send a check to:

Save the Pine Bush
c/o Lynne Jackson
223 S Swan Street
Albany, NY 12202