Spring 2009 - Mianus River Gorge

Carl Heilman II - www.carlheilman.com
News Bulletin
of the Mianus River Gorge Preserve, Inc.
Spring 2009 Volume LIII
RESEARCH/LAND MANAGEMENT
Who’s Whoo-ing in Your Backyard
Regional Citizen Science Project Needs Your Help
Yale Graduate Student
Embarks on Multi-Year
Study on Effects of Road Salt
on Amphibians
(see page 2)
Volunteer Recognition
(see page 2)
Updates on Watershed and
Regional Initiatives
(see page 2)
New Trail Map Available at
the Map Shelter
(see page 2)
Spotlight on Junior and
Sophomore Wildlife Techs
(see page 3)
Research Wrap-Up:
Class of 2009
(see page 4)
167 Mianus River Road
Bedford, New York 10506
www.mianus.org
(914) 234-3455
By Mark Weckel
MRGP Preserve Manager
I
n our suburban Westchester,
the majority of the landscape
consists of privately-owned
property. Yet, the plants and
animals that we at the MRGP strive
to conserve and manage do not
know where our boundaries end and
where your backyard begins. To be
successful in protecting our shared
natural wonders, we need to know
more about the ecology of suburbia
— the ecology of your backyard.
Citizen science, or enlisting
volunteers and neighbors in
collecting valuable data across a
broad geographic area, is one way
the Gorge is trying to learn more
about our surroundings. The idea
isn’t new. If you’ve ever participated
in Christmas Bird Counts, you
have conducted citizen science.
Gorge scientists and WTP student
Deborah Mack of Irvington High
School (Class 2008) successfully
used citizen science to predict the
probability of a backyard coyote
encounter in Westchester County.
The new twist is using your data
to answer pressing environmental
problems that require access to
information from hard-to-reach
places, like your home.
Our latest project, Who’s Whooing in Your Backyard, seeks to
learn more about the distribution
of different owl species across our
suburban environment. Why owls
you may ask? Take the screech owl
for example. They are numerous
enough to be found in most nature
preserves from the MRGP to
Teatown Lake Reservation. But
what about those developed areas
between these nature preserves? Can
we find owl habitat and therefore
owls there? Do certain areas serve
as corridors linking nature preserves
that need to be identified and
protected? The truth is we don’t
know the answer to this and we
need your help.
Go to our website, download our
owl calls to a CD or to your MP3
player and play the 10 minute
owl call from your car stereo or
your patio sound system after
sunset. If you have a resident
owl, he or she should call back!
In partnership with several
organizations, including Bedford
(continued on page 4)
Dedicated to preserving, protecting and promoting appreciation of the natural heritage
of the Mianus River Gorge and the quality of its watershed.
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RESEARCH AND EDUCATION
Multi-Year Study to Begin
on Road Salt Effects
WATERSHED PROTECTION
Update on Watershed and
Regional Initiatives
ORGANIZATION NEWS
Steve Brady, a PhD Candidate in
Ecology from the Yale School of
Environmental Study and Forestry,
will embark on a multi-year study
this spring to research the effect
of road salt on amphibians. Steve,
who hails from the lab of Dr. Dave
Skelly, will focus his research on the
intersection of ecology and evolution
as he attempts to understand how
the potential for adaptation can
allow populations to persist through
periods of environmental change.
• Westchester Citizens’ Taskforce
on White-Tailed Deer and Forest
Regeneration - Rod Christie,
MRGP Executive Director, has
been a member of this taskforce
and played a major role in
drafting the final report. This
county-wide taskforce studied
the impact of white-tailed deer
on plant and animal biodiversity
in Westchester County and made
management recommendations
to the County Executive. Please
see www.westchestergov.com/
Parks/pdfs/DeerTaskForce/
DeerTaskForceReport.pdf for the
taskforce conclusion.
Over the last three years, the Gorge
has been fortunate to have the
forest regeneration expertise of “The
Reforester of Byram Lake”. Tucked
away on the shores of Byram Lake,
this volunteer who wishes to remain
anonymous has been experimenting
for years with reforestation methods
to combat our deer ravaged
environments. He has also been
proactive in revegetating the old pine
grove hit by a microburst in 2007 at
Ward Pound Ridge Reservation.
Suburbanization is one of those
major environmental changes. Steve
will be tackling the question: can
wood frogs in the Mianus Watershed
show rapid evolution in response to
road salt, a common urban stressor
for amphibians? In other words,
will wood frog populations adapt
to become less sensitive to human
pollutants? As it is very unlikely that
suburbia will revert back to forest
land, adaptation is a process that
can mean the difference between
extirpation and persistence. 
• Upper Mianus Initiative - This
research study initiated by MRGP
looked at threats to the upper
Mianus River quality and quantity
of the water supply.
• Mianus Watershed Mapping This project involved GIS mapping
of wetlands and other resources in
the Mianus Watershed that need
protection. It was conducted as a
contract with the Mianus River
Watershed Council. 
Photo Credit: Steve Brady
Save Time, Trees and
Postage...
Our website www.mianus.org is
now accepting on-line donations
for your convenience.
Steve Brady at one of his northeastern
Connecticut research sites. Salamander
enclosures can be seen in the background.
We Need Your Help
The Gorge is looking for help with
web development, specifically Google
map integration. We also have need
of a color laser printer. If you can
help, please contact Rod Christie at
234-3455 or rchristie@mianus.org.
Volunteer Recognition:
The Reforester
Successful restoration of
hemlocks by local forester
At the Gorge, he has been a valued
collaborator, providing staff and
WTP techs with his expertise in
planting seedlings, which we use
for our research. Most recently, he
has generously donated hemlocks
needed for a WTP project and the
lumber required to build a new
bench for our Map Shelter. We are
very grateful for his efforts, his time
and generosity to the Gorge. 
New Trail Map Available at the Map Shelter
The next time you are hiking in the Gorge, please be sure to pick
up the new MRGP trail map in the Map Shelter. Using GIS
(Geographic Information Systems) technology, the new map
accurately reflects the current trail system and revised distances for the green,
blue, red and loop trails. The trail map also includes the new exclosure trail
and updated points of interest. 
Spring 2009 Mianus River Gorge Preserve 3
RESEARCH AND EDUCATION
Spotlight: Our Junior Techs, Class of 2010
The high school Wildlife Technician Program (WTP) continues to grow
by leaps and bounds. With ten active and four graduating students, we are
producing some very exciting information on our shared natural resources.
Although four students are set to graduate in 2009, many of our WTP
projects will continue on with the class of 2011 or students we will select
this coming winter for the Class of 2012. These long-term ecological
monitoring projects are extremely valuable in tracking telltale changes in
suburban ecosystems.
Introducing the
Class of 2011
MRGP’s Sophomore Techs are
presently conducting literature
reviews, data collection and
preliminary analyses. Here are
their chosen research topics:
Our junior techs, Class of 2010, are in the midst of their field study and
working on data collection, analysis and interim reports. Here are brief
summaries of the research they are undertaking:
Kyle Bardwell
Ossining High School
Using citizen science to identify
owl habitat along an urban-rural
gradient.
Matt Marano
Horace Greeley High School
Hemlock Seedlings and Mycorrhizae
Colonization: The Role of the Tree
Neighborhood
Frank Secret
John Jay High School
Using individually recognizable
bucks from camera traps to estimate
deer density.
Colonization of a young tree by
ectomycorrhizae may depend on the
presence of an adult tree nearby to
ensure an existing fungal community
in the immediate vicinity. To
investigate this relationship, Matthew
has planted hemlock seedlings near
different species of adult trees to
investigate how the size and species of
the adult impacts seedling growth and
colonization by ectomycorrhizal fungi.
Mason Curtis
Rye High School
Rare salamander diversity in
woodland vernal pools: What
habitat factors make the difference?
(From left) Meredith Davis, Jose Montiel
and Alison Meyers will be working with
MRGP neighbors over the next two years to
survey the deer population.
Chelsey Louis
Rye Brook High School
Impact of Japanese Stiltgrass on
Red Maple Seedling Survival
Meredith Davis, Alison Meyers, and
Jose Montiel
Briarcliff High School
Abundance Estimates of White-Tailed
Deer using Sightings of Marked Deer
by Residents in a Capture-MarkRecapture Framework
Stiltgrass is an exotic grass that
has invaded many parts of the
MRGP forming near monocultures.
Chelsea is investigating the ability
of tree seedlings to penetrate this
thatch in their first few years of
growth. On one hand, the thatch
may limit the amount of light and
water the seedling receives, but the
thatch may also protect the tree
from deer.
In 2008, Preserve Manager Mark
Weckel marked 19 deer with colored
ear tags. Many MRGP neighbors
have reported sightings of these
“accessorized” deer. Meredith, Alison,
and Jose are coordinating an effort
to employ local residents as detectors
to see if this approach provides
similar results compared to the more
traditional and labor-intensive field
methods that Mark is using.
Harry Lipson
Dobbs Ferry High School
The distribution of Asian
earthworms and exotic flatworms:
What are the implications of this
non-native predator-prey system on
forest dynamics?
Christina Caragine
Ursuline School
Spectrogram Analysis of Recorded
Point-Counts as an Improved Method
for Locating Songbird Species of
Concern
Entering her second field season,
Christina’s recordings have found a
number of forest canopy and interior
songbird species, but few shrub
and ground-nesting birds. We are
particularly concerned about the
vitality of these two groups of birds
because of the reduced understory.
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Spring 2009
RESEARCH AND EDUCATION
Research Results: Class of 2009
Three years have gone so fast! Our second graduating class of high school
Wildlife Technicians are now busy writing final research reports and
presenting their findings at regional conferences. Over the last three years, our
senior techs gained valuable insight and hands-on experience in field study
work and suburban ecology. Some of their research questions were answered,
while in other cases, new questions were generated which will require further
study and analysis. Our four senior techs will be going on to Penn State,
SUNY at New Paltz, Whittier College and Bucknell University and have
expressed interest in continuing their scientific education. Please visit our
website, www.mianus.org, for more information about their research projects
and the Wildlife Technician Program. Below are summaries of their findings:
Katherine Caswell
Yorktown High School
Caitlyn Korren
Fox Lane High School
Distribution and Habitat Use of Barred
and Great-Horned Owls
Diet of Eastern Coyote in a Suburban
Nature Preserve
Using call-playback surveys in
the Gorge, Katherine found that
despite similar habitat usage,
barred and great-horned owls
never overlapped territories.
Katherine was awarded with
3rd place at the Regional Junior
Science and Humanities
Symposium ( JSHS) for her work
and placed 1st in the state poster
JSHS competition. Kyle Bardwell
(Class of 2011) will be expanding
Katherine’s project to validate her
results at the County-level.
Caitlyn analyzed over fifty coyote
scats collected by our RAP student,
Linda Gormezano. Deer remains
were the most frequently observed
prey item followed by seeds and
small mammals. Garbage was
found in only one scat and there
was no evidence of coyotes preying
on dogs or cats. There are more
scats to come for a future student!
Wynter Larson
Ossining High School
Community of Potential Predators of
Hemlock Wooly Adelgid (HWA) in an
Eastern Hemlock Forest
In 2000, Sasajiscymnus tsugae, a
predatory lady beetle of HWA was
released into the MRGP. After
extensive sampling of the hemlock
canopy, Wynter did not observe
S. tsugae and collected very few
potential predators of HWA. Her
work has lead to new questions: If
there is not a healthy population
of HWA predators, why are the
MRPG hemlocks still surviving
following 20 years of HWA
infestation? Wynter is now a spring
semester intern at the American
Museum of Natural History.
Annica Hellburg
Somers High School
Response of Herbaceous and Woody
Plants to Deer Exclusion: Implications
for Restoration
Using deer exclosures, Annica
found a greater rate of increase in
some wildflowers inside fenced areas
as compared to outside; however,
some forest types show slow recovery
rates from deer damage. Gorge staff
will continue Annica’s study.
Who’s Whoo-ing in Your Backyard (continued from page 1)
Audubon, Friends of the Great
Swamp, Greenburg Nature Center,
Greenwich Audubon, Putnam
Land Trust, Rockefeller State
Park, Teatown Lake Reservation,
Saw Mill River Audubon, and
Westmoreland Sanctuary, the
MRGP is spearheading an effort
to collect data on the presence and
absence of both screech and barred
owls from suburban backyards.
Participation is simple, requires less
than 1 hour a month, is conducted
from your home, and is great for
kids. Go to our website, download
our owl calls to a CD or to your
MP3 player and play the 10 minute
owl call from your car stereo or your
patio sound system sometime after
sunset. If you have a resident owl,
he or she should call back! Submit
this data online and Gorge staff
will use your data in conjunction
with vegetation maps to predict owl
habitat across the region from NYC
to Putnam County.
The Who’s Whoo-ing in Your
Backyard project is an extension of
an earlier WTP project conducted
by Katherine Caswell of Yorktown
High School (Class of 2009) who
studied the distribution of barred
owls at the MRGP. Our new
student Kyle Bardwell of Ossining
High School (Class of 2011) is
expanding on Katherine’s project
by using citizen science. The current
owl project also complements the
work of Chris Nagy, a doctoral
study at CUNY and Assistant
Manager of the MRGP, who
studies screech owl population
dynamics in NYC parks. 
2008 Annual Giving
Annual Giving is comprised of generous support to our annual fund
and special projects here at the Mianus River Gorge Preserve, Inc.
$10,000 and above
Anonymous (1)
The Dorr Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Andre Hunter
The Geoffrey C. Hughes
Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Jean-Paul Vallès
$2,500 - $9,999
Anonymous (1)
A. E. Charitable Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Brian W. Barrett*
The Bydale Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Timothy W. Evnin*
Mr. and Mrs. Edward P. Harding
Mr. and Mrs. Alex Kirk
Mr. Scott P. Kurnit and
Ms. Abbe Heller
Mrs. Alfred E. Lyon
Mr. and Mrs. Piers M. MacDonald
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Marx
The Overbrook Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Tishman
Mr. and Mrs. Harold T. White, III
$1,200 - $2,499
Mrs. Edward S. Elliman
James A. Macdonald Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Noel Meller
Mr. and Mrs. John S. Needham
Ms. Stacy Albanese and
Mr. Todd Noonan
Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Pearl
Mr. and Mrs. Christopher
duPont Roosevelt
Mr. and Mrs. Norman Selby
Ms. Abby R. Simpson and
Mr. Todd Mydland
$600 - $1,199
Mr. and Mrs. Ronald R. Atkins
Mr. and Mrs. Dale H. Austin
Mr. and Mrs. Nathaniel B. Day
Mr. and Mrs. Wiliam G. Foulke, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Michael E. Gellert
Ms. Susan K. Heller
Mrs. Patricia H. Keesee
Ms. Cynthia L. Keiser
Dr. and Mrs. Benjamin F. Levene, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. David Malcolm
Mr. Worthington Mayo-Smith
Mr. and Mrs. James C. Murray
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Stanton
Mr. and Mrs. Claiborne C. Van Zandt
Mr. and Mrs. Roger Vincent
Mr. and Mrs. William M. Waterman
Mr. and Mrs. Walter C. Weissinger, Jr.
Signs of Spring
along the trails...
Wildflowers, such as this
Canada Mayflower, take
advantage of the early
spring sunlight reaching
the forest floor.
$300 - $599
Anonymous (2)
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Aglietti
Ms. Louise Todd Ambler
Mr. and Mrs. Per A. Arneberg
Mr. and Mrs. Robert N. Bischoff
Amb. and Mrs. Walter Curley
Mr. William C. Davidson
Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas L.D. Firth
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Frank
Mr. L. Scott Frantz
Mr. and Mrs. John D. Gilliam
Green Finger Garden Club
Mr. and Mrs. Donald P. Gregg
Mr. and Mrs. Michael G. Harris
Mr. and Mrs. David Howell
Mr. and Mrs. Wilmot H. Kidd
Mr. Marc Kirschner and
Ms. Nancy Fisher
Mr. and Mrs. Peter R. Limburg
Mrs. Charity MacDonald
Mr. Michael N. McKenna and
Dr. Margaret M. Lenci
Mrs. Alice Melly
Dr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Milhorat
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas O’Malley
Mr. Scott M. Pinkus
Mr. and Mrs. Christopher M.
Robinson
The Rusticus Garden Club
Male wood frogs call to females
to mate at the edge of vernal
pools.
In the forest, freshets from the
spring thaw.
2008 Annual Giving
Mr. William Sarnoff
Ms. Barbara Schatz and
Mr. Frederick Schaffer
Mrs. Elizabeth C. Sluder
Mr. John Squires
Mr. Alan R. Viani
Mr. and Mrs. John H. T. Wilson
$150 - $299
Songbirds, such as this Solitary
Vireo above, mate and raise their
young.
Spotted salamanders move to
vernal pools to breed.
On the forest floor appear
distinctive Jack-in-the-Pulpits
with their intriguing hooded
blossom.
Anonymous (7)
Mr. and Mrs. Conrad Albert
Mr. and Mrs. Alan Appelbaum
Mr. Joshua Arnow and
Ms. Elyse Arnow Brill
Dr. and Mrs. Bert Ballin
Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Banks
Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Barber
Mr. and Mrs. James M. Barton
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Brooks
Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Buck
Mr. and Mrs. Chuck Caulkins
Mr. and Mrs. Franklyn Chang
Mr. Billy C. Christensen
Mr. and Mrs. Jon Conner
Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Cotter
Mr. Tim Cunningham
Dr. and Mrs. Salvatore J. DiGrandi
Mr. and Mrs. Paul E. Dixon
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Dunson
Mr. and Mrs. Peter R. Ehrlich
Mrs. Jules Enrich
Mr. David G. Flatt
Mr. and Mrs. Joel E. Freedman
Dr. and Mrs. Bernard Gastrich
Mr. and Mrs. Anthony C. Godino
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen F. Gordon
Mr. John M. Greenwood
Mr. and Mrs. Glenn D. Hall
Ms. Katie Hall and Mr. Paul Risko
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph W. Handelman
Mrs. George W. Hebard
Mr. and Mrs. James A. Heller
Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Hoffman
Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Hogan
Mr. and Mrs. William B. Hubbell, Jr.
Mr. Gary Jacobson and
Ms. Bridget Thorne
Mr. and Mrs. Steven Joffe
Mr. Chris Jones and
Ms. Pema Tsentso
Mr. John Klingenstein
Dr. and Mrs. Michael Kornfield
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth B. Kunhardt
Mr. and Mrs. Michael C. Larned
Mr. and Mrs. Peter L. Malkin
Mr. Carl Milianta
Mr. and Mrs. Frederick H. Osborn
Mr. and Mrs. Foxhall Parker
Ms. Sondra Peterson
Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan G. Powers
Mr. and Mrs. Fredric D. Price
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel F. Pryor
Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Quinn
Mrs. J. Squier Reimer
The Honorable Jane A. Restani
Dr. Eve Hart Rice and
Dr. Timothy D. Mattison
Mr. F. Peter Rose
Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Schlossberg
Mr. Miles A. Slater
Mr. and Mrs. C. Nicholas Spofford
The Stamford Garden Club
Stamford Woman’s Club,
Garden Dept.
Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan L. Stanley
Mr. James F. Stuart
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Thacher
Mr. and Mrs. Rodman K. Tilt
Mr. and Mrs. John Train
Mr. and Mrs. Leo Vircillo*
Mrs. Joan M. Warburg
Ms. Emma Ward
Mr. and Mrs. John L. Warden
Mr. Paul Zofnass
Other Donors
Anonymous (8)
Mrs. Arthur L. Amiot
Mr. and Mrs. Mark Appel
Mr. Howard B. Arden
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert J. Ashe
Mr. and Mrs. John C. Aslan
Ms. Anne Barlow Aspinall
Mrs. Jean C. Bahr
Mr. and Mrs. S. Milo Bain
Mr. William F. Banks
2008 Annual Giving
Dr. and Mrs. Philip Batson
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen H. Baum
Mr. and Mrs. David P. Beckett
Bedford Garden Club
Mr. and Mrs. William Bedford
Mr. and Mrs. John R. Bennet
Mr. William J. Boccio, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Len Boscia
Mr. and Mrs. James K. Bowman
Ms. Cornelia Boyle
Mr. and Mrs. Edward H. Bragg
The Brearley School
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen M. Brecher
Mr. and Mrs. Christopher W.
Burdick
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Burke
Mr. and Mrs. Carl A. Cedarstav
Mr. and Mrs. Minturn Chace
Mr. and Mrs. James W. Cobbs
Mr. and Mrs. William Cohee, Jr.
Ms. Martha Coleman and
Mr. Ellis Cooper
Mr. and Mrs. James B. Cowperthwait
Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd B. Cox, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Cummings
Mr. and Mrs. Karl M. Davies
Mr. and Mrs. Paul H. DeCoster
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence D. DiMargo
Mr. and Mrs. Philip Dollard
Mrs. Sheila Drenckhahn
Mr. and Mrs. Milton Drexler
Mr. Denis Duran*
Mr. J. Scott Dyer
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph H. Einstein
Ms. Gail Faithfull and
Mr. Leo McDonnell
Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Feldman
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen H. Fields
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Finn
Mr. Raymond A. Firestone*
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Foster
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Fox
Mr. and Mrs. Gabriel Gabella
Dr. and Mrs. Harold R. Galef
Mr. and Mrs. John G. Gantz
Mr. Joseph C. Gatto, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest H. Gelman
Mr. and Mrs. David Gillen*
Mrs. Arthur Glowka
Mrs. Maxine A. Goldblum
Ms. Carol Goldman and
Mr. Joe Simonetti
Mr. and Mrs. Kurt Goldmann
Mr. and Mrs. John Goldsmith
Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Goodchild
The Green Acres Garden Club
Mr. and Mrs. Evan G. Greenberg
Greenwich Garden Club
Dr. Alfred Grossman
Mr. Ara Guzelimian and
Ms. Janet Clough
Mr. John J. Hannan and
Ms. Mary M. Devane
Mr. John Hauser
Mr. and Mrs. Neil A. Havlik
Mr. and Mrs. Theodore M. Hawryluk
Mr. Raymond J. Heimbuch
Mr. and Mrs. John F. Heimerdinger
Mr. and Mrs. Philip J. Hempleman
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Henrey
Mr. Robert P. Herzog
Mr. Robert Hobe
Mrs. Elizabeth H. Huffine
Ms. Jill Jacobs
Mr. and Mrs. William A. Jacobson
Mr. and Mrs. Michael B. Jones
Mr. and Mrs. Hellmut J. Juretschke
Mr. C. A. Kalman
Mr. and Mrs. John Karabec
Ms. Charlotte Ketchum
Ms. Marcia Kosstrin
Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Krasnow
Ms. Edith Kunhardt
Mr. Norman R. Kurdell
Ms. Gusty Lange
Mr. Henry W. Lauterstein
Ms. Shelley Lennox
Dr. and Mrs. Julian Levine
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Levitt
Mr. and Mrs. Zachary J. Levy
Mrs. Mary Hope Lewis
Dr. and Mrs. David Liebeskind
Mrs. John B. Littlefield
Mrs. James J. Lowe
Mr. and Mrs. Mort Lowenthal
Mr. and Mrs. Kirk K. MacLennan
Mr. Steve Mainzer
Ms. Pamela Manice
Mr. and Mrs. Michael L. Margulies
Mr. Robert W. Markell
In early spring, blooming Marsh
Marigolds are found along stream
banks and wetlands.
Male part
of Red
Maple Trees
produce
pollen.
Fiddlehead ferns welcome spring.
Photos Courtesy of Rod Christie
2008 Annual Giving
Mr. Michael J. Markovits
Mr. and Mrs. Peter McSpadden
Ms. Anne Mengden
Mr. Edward Mertz
Mr. and Mrs. Jay G. Milkes
Mr. Wilbur H. Miller
Ms. Claudia Milne
Mrs. Jane-Kerin Moffat
Mr. and Mrs. Mark Moran
Mr. and Mrs. George J. Morrison
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas S. Mulligan
Mr. and Mrs. Gary S. Muniz
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence B. Nadel
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence J. Nokes
Ms. Susan A. Norwell
Mr. and Mrs. David A. Nourse
Mr. and Mrs. Steve Ohler
Mr. and Mrs. Frank O’Neill
Mrs. Grace P. Papp
Mr. Frank R. Parker III
Ms. Amelia O’B Parsons and
Mr. Paul S. Bird
Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Perry
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Van Ness Philip
Pound Ridge Garden Club
Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm S. Pray
Mrs. John C. Ramsey
Mr. and Mrs. Whitelaw Reid
Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Robbins
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel K. Roberts
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Rockefeller
Mrs. Oren Root
Mr. and Mrs. Richard B. Schlesinger
Ms. Janet K. Schloat
Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Schmidt
Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Shapiro
Mr. and Mrs. Frederick I. Sharp, III
Dr. Mark Siegel
Mr. and Mrs. Alan E. Silberman
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Silver
Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Penn Smith
Mr. and Mrs. Clinton H. Springer
Mr. and Mrs. Emerson Stone
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Strongwater
Mr. and Mrs. Mark Sullivan
Mrs. Joelle Tessier
Mr. and Mrs. Reynal de St. Michel
Thebaud*
Mr. and Mrs. William J. Tingue
Mrs. Virginia M. Valentine
Mr. and Mrs. Roger van Loveren
Mrs. Nancy N. Vick
Ms. Kathryn Walsh and
Mr. Wesley Romansky
Ms. Ellen Weiss
Mr. and Mrs. Harold C. Whitman
Mrs. Joseph C. Wilberding
Dr. and Mrs. James R. Wilson, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Norman Winskill
Mr. and Mrs. James Wood
Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Wood
Mr. and Mrs. John F. Woyke
Ms. Barbara A. Young
Mr. Simon Ziff
In Memory of Gene and
Margery Curry
Ms. Judith E. Fletcher and
Mr. John F. Rathe
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Harvey
In Memory of Renate Hunter
Ms. Phyllis Berman
Ms. Lori Deery
Mrs. and Mrs. Steven Meixler
Mrs. Joan Silbersher
In Memory of James Todd, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Abe Levy
In Honor of Brian Jeffrey Moss
Ms. Anita Moss
Volunteers
Mr. Dave Alexander
Mr. John Ball
Mr. Charlie Bove
Mr. Dennis Bove
Mr. Mike Bove
Dr. Carole Cheah
Mr. John Daly
Mr. Sal Farrauto
Mr. Tony Femia
Mr. George Jackman
Dr. Jim Lewis
Mr. Kris Mancini
Mr. John Massari
Mr. Stan McGuigan
Mr. Jerry Meenan
Mr. Mitch Mora
Mr. Steve Principe
Mr. Oliver Stauffer
Mr. Steve Stoni
Mr. Bob Tunney
Mr. Marc Viscusi
Mr. Ilya Zerakhot
*Includes Matching Gift
Note: If you have a correction to
make regarding the way your name is
listed, please call the office or e-mail
heather@mianus.org. We apologize
for any mistakes we may have made
in recognizing the generosity of our
donors and volunteers.
Thank you!