Our work depends on your support and involvement. Here are some easy ways you can help right now!
Careers
Careers
Whatever your expertise, you'll find an environment that encourages discovery, teamwork and professional development.
You can contribute to conservation in a variety of fields including Science, Stewardship, Marketing, Education, Finance, Operations and much more. Click here to check out career openings at the Albany Pine Bush.
Community Science
Community Science
Join our community of local scientists and help us collect data!
The Albany Pine Bush Preserve Commission is looking to engage people in science work at the preserve, both in helping to collect data and in getting a detailed look at what we do and why. Our Community Science Program seeks to collect data that can contribute to our scientific understanding of the ecology and management of the Preserve while offering meaningful engagement opportunities to our constituency.
Community Science opportunities are offered as the need arises. The schedule for both Community Science programs and our science lecture series can be found on our calendar.
The Pine Bush is one of many extraordinary and rare places around the world. You can learn about, enjoy and protect plants, animals and their habitats wherever you live. There are simple things that each one of us can do to minimize our impact on the environment and make it healthier. Click here to see what you can do.
Donate
Donate
Preserve staff receive support from the Friends for projects that include bird banding equipment and advanced license bird banding training.
A donation to the Friends of the Pine Bush Community shows that you care about and want to help sustain the Friends programs.
Your contribution can fund school bus trips for students, protect land, support interns, expand research capabilities and preserve habitat restoration or support educational programming at the Albany Pine Bush Preserve Discovery Center.
You decide how you want to make a difference by choosing a specific fund.
As a Friend, you have the satisfaction of knowing you’re contributing to the stewardship and appreciation of the unique natural communities found in the Albany Pine Bush Preserve.
Volunteers are working to make the preserve safe and enjoyable for all who visit and live here.
The Pine Bush provides hundreds of volunteers and partners with rewarding opportunities for hands-on conservation work. Click here to check out our volunteer opportunities.
Starting in early March 2024, 18 acres of invasive and non-native black locust trees will be removed from a site located west of New Karner Road and just south of Pinehurst Blvd. The tree removal is the first step in restoring this site back to the pine barrens it once was. After tree removal the site will be planted with native pine barrens plants. During this time this area is temporarily CLOSED to all public use.
If you have any questions or concerns about this management work, please contact Stewardship Director, Joel Hecht at 518-456-0655 or jhecht@albanypinebush.org
February 07, 2024
Prescribed Fire Notifications
We cannot provide a specific schedule for prescribed fires in a given area due to the unpredictability of weather and fuel conditions. If you would like to be notified the morning of a prescribed fire, please subscribe below.
October 12, 2020
Hunting, Fishing & Trapping
Hunting, fishing and trapping are recreational activities that are carefully regulated in the preserve and across NYS.
April 03, 2019
Tick Awareness
Please be aware that ticks, including deer ticks (also known as black-legged ticks), are present in the Albany Pine Bush Preserve as well as other natural areas in our region.
