| News and Events
There's always something happening at Black Rock Forest!
- Join The Green Ride! This Columbus Day Weekend, bicyclists will travel 260 miles from Manhattan to the Catskills and back, spending both nights in the Forest Lodge, all while raising money for Black Rock Forest and its education programs.
- You can now donate online to the Black Rock Forest Consortium, through the secure web site of NYCharities.org.
- Dr. Neil Maher's history of land use in the Black Rock Forest area prior to the establishment of the Forest as a research site is now online, along with profiles and maps of 17 homestead sites.
- Consortium Day was held on June 8, 2008, and the E. G. Stillman Award was presented to Dr. Gene Likens, founder of the Institute of Ecosystems Studies. Photos coming soon.
- On May 17, Golden Ridge was dedicated in honor of Consortium founder William T. Golden. Photos coming soon.
- The new Spring 2008 issue of the newsletter is now available online.
- The Consortium's Small Grant program, generously funded by the Stiefel Foundation, awarded six grants totaling $26,308.07 to scientists and educators working in the Forest.
- From July 6-18, the Consortium is pleased to offer its first Field Ecology Internship program for high school sophomores and juniors (incoming juniors and seniors). Applications are due March 7.
- Consortium founder William T. Golden died on October 7; read a tribute by Dr. William Schuster, Executive Director.
- Hunter College has just joined the Consortium, and NYU has rejoined, specifically its Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development and the School of Arts and Sciences. .
- Abstracts from the Fifth Black Rock Forest Research Symposium on June 25 and 26, 2007, are now online, along with a detailed article about the Symposium, expanded from the one appearing in the Fall 2007 issue of the Black Rock Forest News.
- Student Research Spotlight articles are now available online.
- On Earth Day, April 22, 2007, more than 100 Friends of the Forest, neighbors, and Consortium visitors came to the Forest for tree planting, green building tours, and the season's first trout release.
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