New York Master Naturalist Program

The Hudson River came alive Saturday as families, nature enthusiasts, and volunteers gathered at sites from the Capital Region to New York City, including here in the Hudson Valley, for the 15th Annual Great Hudson River Fish Count.

Annual ‘Fish Count’ brings Hudson River wildlife into focus HUDSON VALLEY- The Hudson River came alive Saturday as families, nature enthusiasts, and volunteers gathered at sites from the Capital Region to New York City,

In this video, the biologist Adrian Smith provides close-ups of a diverse array of caterpillars all found within 20 miles of Raleigh, North Carolina, where he heads the Evolutionary Biology and Behavior Research Lab at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences.

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In 2003, a unique baby goat lived and died. In doing so, she might be regarded as the first species to have endured the indignity of going extinct twice.

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New York has many state symbols like the rose, the bluebird and the sugar maple. The state’s Department of Environmental Conservation wants to protect New York’s fish, the brook trout, specifically, focusing on brook trout living in ponds.

They even stock some of the state’s waterways with brook trout raised in hatcheries. South Otselic’s hatchery is one place where these fish are raised.

New York plans to conserve pond-dwelling brook trout in Adirondacks The new plan will cover the next 15 years of conservation for the fish.

New Yorkers interested in marine conservation can volunteer for the state’s annual horseshoe crab monitoring program, which helps researchers track horseshoe crab populations across the region.

Established in 2004, the monitoring program is a partnership between Cornell Cooperative Extension’s Marine Program, Stony Brook University and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.

Horseshoe crab monitoring volunteers needed in New York Researchers track horseshoe crab populations vital to migratory birds and medical testing.

Mycological advocates and researchers are racing the clock to protect fungi, which have long been neglected in conservation frameworks, before they go extinct.

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In recent years, photographer Carla Rhodes has been capturing moths in all their beautiful variety at her home in New York state.

The magnificent moths of the Catskill mountains – in pictures This week is National Moth Week, when citizen scientists worldwide are urged to record their sightings of some of the 160,000 species of moth. In recent years, photographer Carla Rhodes has been capturing moths in all their beautiful variety at her home in New York state

The New York Master Naturalist Program was featured in the latest edition of NYSDEC's Conservationist Magazine! You can read the article herehttps://blogs.cornell.edu/nymasternaturalist/files/2026/05/Naturalist_06.2026.pdf

Thanks to David Taylor for the write-up!

This year’s recipient of the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement talks about “punk science,” microbial economics and thinking like a mycorrhizal fungus.

Toby Kiers, World Champion of Fungus