As the trails rest for the winter in the Mianus River Gorge Preserve and Taylor Preserve, MRG staff continue their work to advance important land and water protection efforts throughout the region. Mianus River Gorge staff have temporarily relocated to office space at 2 Depot Plaza in Bedford Hills, NY, as work begins on our […]
Flying squirrels are the most common squirrel in the eastern US, but most people have never seen one. That’s because flying squirrels are nocturnal animals that do not actually fly, but rather glide from tree to tree, spending little time on the ground. There are two species of flying squirrels in the eastern US – […]
September 2025 In this issue: MRG and Fordham’s Calder Center partner on 10-week deer study This summer, Chris Nagy mentored an undergraduate student from Fordham University as part of the Louis Calder Center’s Summer Undergraduate Research (CSUR) program. Claire Renault, a sophomore at Fordham, spent the summer testing a new method of measuring the abundance […]
As the trails rest for the winter in the Mianus River Gorge Preserve and Taylor Preserve, MRG staff continue their work to advance important land and water protection efforts throughout the region. We kicked off 2025 with a First Day Hike at 9:00 a.m. on Wednesday, January 1. While the trails are closed for their […]
Little is known about flying squirrels within the Mianus River Gorge. MRG’s Budd Veverka, who studied southern flying squirrels in Kentucky, and high school science research student Daisy are using field research to determine if there is a remnant population of northern flying squirrels remaining in the old-growth conifer forests of the Mianus River Gorge. […]
In the earliest days of the Mianus River Gorge, the founders were fascinated with the flora and fauna they found here. They contacted biologists, botanists and other professionals to help them catalog the biodiversity of the Mianus River Gorge. Beginning in the mid 1950s, Dr. Henry A. Gleason, Head Curator Emeritus of the New York […]
Yorktown H.S. graduate Sofia Natasi recently completed her three-year tenure in MRG’s award-winning Wildlife Technician Program (WTP). Sofia was mentored by Director of Research & Education Chris Nagy who has led the program for the past 10 years. Sofia studied the change in distribution of invasive earthworms of the genus Amynthas spp., which were introduced […]
July 2024 MRG high-school researchers present their work at the 2024 Northeast Natural History Conference Two of our graduating seniors in our Wildlife Technician Program presented their completed research at the 2024 Northeast Natural History Conference in April. Alex Thompson (Blind Brook HS) gave a lecture on his study of frogs in several wetlands and […]
In the earliest days of the Mianus Gorge Conservation Committee, as Mianus River Gorge was originally known, the founders were fascinated with the flora and fauna they found here. They contacted biologists, botanists and other professionals to help them catalog the biodiversity of the Mianus River Gorge. Beginning in the mid 1950s, Dr. Henry A. […]
Fall 2023 We put together a snapshot of some of the projects, partnerships, and new initiatives we have been working on. Click here.