Links

Our Five Towns

Shawangunk Ridge Biodiversity Partnership Members

• Shawangunk Ridge Biodiversity Partnership Publications
• Friends of the Shawangunks
• New York Natural Heritage Program
• The Nature Conservancy – Sam’s Point Preserve
• New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
• New York State Museum
• Open Space Institute
• Palisades Interstate Park Commission
• New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation

Learn about the Shawangunk Ridge

• Gunks.com
• Gunks Climbers’ Coalition
• Lake Minnewaska.org
• Save the Ridge
• Shawangunk Mountains Home Page
• Shawangunk Ridge Coalition

Conservation organizations in the Hudson Valley

• Appalachian Mountain Club – NY/NJ Chapter
• Black Rock Forest   
• Clearwater
• Dutchess Land Conservancy
• Esopus Creek Conservancy
• Hudson River Reserve National Estuarine Research Reserve System
• Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area
  
• Institute of Ecosystem Studies
  
• Mohonk Consultations 
• New York-New Jersey Trail Conference
• NYS Hudson River Valley Greenway
  
• Riverkeeper    
• Scenic Hudson    
• Wallkill Valley Land Trust
• Winnakee Land Trust
• Woodstock Land Conservancy

Natural History Sites

Animals

General Wildlife:

• National Wildlife Federation 
• NatureServe Explorer Encyclopedia
• Wildlife Diversity Program, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation   
• Wildlife Species Information & Links – NYS DEC

• New York State Amphibian & Reptile Atlas Project  

Birds:

• All About Birds, Cornell Lab of Ornithology
• Audubon New York - Northern Shawangunks IBA (Important Bird Area) Designation
• Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center – National Zoo

Insects:

• University of Kansas- Monarch Watch

Mammals:

• Beavers:  Wetlands & Wildlife
• North American Bear Center
  

Plants

• U.S.D.A.  Forest Service – Forest Health
• U.S.D.A Forest Service – Conifers & Hardwoods
• Virginia Tech – Forest Biology & Dendrology

Misc 

•  Mid-Hudson Astronomy Association