Alexis Cipriani graduated from SUNY Geneseo this spring. She completed an internship to streamline our conservation monitoring across our 160+ easements.

Staff joined volunteers for a workday to begin native planting on the coming trailhead access on Steeplechase Drive in Geneseo, providing this neighborhood access to the preserve.

Sierra Doody is a rising senior at SUNY Geneseo. She completed an internship in the spring focused on technical mapping projects using GIS.

August is national Make-A-Will Month. Have you planned how you want your assets distributed to family, friends, and the causes you care about upon your passing?

An extraordinary gift of $1.5 million has been received by Genesee Valley Conservancy to support local conservation.  This gift is the single largest donation received by the organization.

We are looking for artists to create a Duetone piece for this year’s version of the Genesee Valley 100.

Kim Ryniec (Team Lead), Kenny Arend, Victoria Dannenfeldt, Andrea Malach, Kim Keil, and El Kehl comprise the Conservancy’s first invasive species strike team.

A significant farmland protection project has been completed by Maureen DeGolyer and her daughter and farm operator Meghan DeGolyer Hauser in partnership with Genesee Valley Conservancy.

Siblings John Morgan, Beth Niedermaier and Leigh Major have completed a farmland protection project on their family land, expanding upon land protected by members of the Morgan family earlier this year. 

A total of 609 acres in the town of Lima and Avon are now permanently protected as farmland thanks to the efforts of members of the Willard family: Marc Kreiger, Dorothy Krieger and Donna Brongo.

Save the Date for this year’s Oak Tree Half Marathon & 5K.

We’ve reached capacity for this year’s Bluebell Hike.

Those signed up will be contacted via email with hike details!

Help execute an invasive species management plan for each of Genesee Valley Conservancy’s nature preserves. 

Oatka Creek Farm, a small produce farm located along Oatka Creek in LeRoy, received a $4,000 microgrant from the Brighter Future Fund to support its transition to a no-till, organic farming operation.

Genesee Valley Conservancy is thrilled to announce the purchase of 95 acres of field and forest habitat adjacent to the Rattle Snake Hill Wildlife Management Area owned by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.

In January, 530 acres on Woodlawn Farms was protected thanks to the efforts of the Morgan family and Genesee Valley Conservancy. 

A first of its kind land conservation project has been completed in the hills of Ossian, Livingston County, with the protection of Sugar Creek Forest by the landowner and Genesee Valley Conservancy.

Help us #ROCtheDay by supporting land conservation TODAY!

This year’s collection of original Works on Paper are on view now at Silver Lake Brewing Project in Perry and online!

The Stevens family has completed a conservation project with Genesee Valley Conservancy, protecting 276 acres of their first-generation farm in Livonia, Livingston County, NY.