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Launching Long Island Environmental Directory

1/10/2021

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Written by Quality Parks Team
For an island that’s only 118 miles long and 12-20 miles wide, Long Island environmental culture is rich with those that care about its future. Yet, it’s easy to overlook how everything on Long Island is connected — from our libraries to our campaigns, to our botanists and geologists, to our water protectors and wildlife rescuers. Quality Parks is but one of these many, many Long Island environmental assets.

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Native American Walking Off Trail - National Park Service

12/31/2020

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Written by Mindy Block, Quality Parks President & Founder
Yesterday, I followed the story in which a Native American was tasered by a National Park Ranger in Petroglyph National Monument, Albuquerque, New Mexico.  As I read more of the details, and watched the videos, I realized it could've been me.
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CovidAlertNY: An App for Hiking & Volunteering

12/26/2020

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Written by Mindy Block, Quality Parks President & Founder
As an environmentalist spending most of my free time outdoors,  I recently volunteered at Carpenter Farm Park (pictured above) in Huntington, with GoNativeLI.  Concurrently, I downloaded CovidAlertNY when it first came out, and set it to explicitly allow data collection. ​ I thought nothing of it, until the night I was notified.
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CovidAlertNY  is a free downloadable app that protects your privacy while notifying you about meeting anyone testing positive. It also provides essential public health data to monitors.  I encourage anyone with more information on location tracking accuracy to comment below. Read on, to see why I'm asking.
Yes, I was tagged as being near a positive!  ​

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Mindy Block, President & Founder
Annelies Kamran
Dana Frances Hilbert
Fred Edel, Co-Chair
​Jenn Lucas
Linda Lombardo
Pam Block
Phil Benvin
Quality Parks is a professional organization sponsoring projects to improve both business and environmental conditions by balancing social, economic and environmental concerns. We disseminate information, develop and provide experiential learning opportunities, and support efforts designed to stimulate, encourage, educate, and involve the general public in natural resource stewardship practice​s. ​We are a  federally registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit, since 2000, based in Port Jefferson, on  Long Island, New York
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