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“A tree came down, look at that.” Sue Avery, a botanist and certified landscaper, examines a thin wire cage along the border of the Ashley Schiff Preserve on campus.
A slender sapling grows in the center, hardly visible against a backdrop of leaves and debris. It’s barely mid-April too early for the shoot to have grown leaves. A fallen tree rests barely a foot away; a few inches closer, and it might have crushed the sapling.
Avery isn’t sure about the exact origin of the sapling. “It came from a batch of fertilized nuts collected from blight-resistant trees or from results of cross-pollination between flowering trees on Long Island,” she said. A fungus, also known as chestnut blight, wiped out mature American chestnut trees in the 1950s.
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On April 10, the Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery held an environmentally themed presentation with guest artist Annemarie Waugh, whose work is currently on display at the Zuccaire Gallery in Four: MFA Thesis Exhibition 2021. It was followed by a presentation from Evan Joo, the Alumni Representative and Social Media Manager of Friends of Ashley Schiff Preserve.
Hidden in plain sight, the Ashley Schiff Preserve is the 26-acre nature preserve on Stony Brook University campus, named after a beloved political science Professor Ashley Schiff. Schiff joined the faculty in 1965 as an early conservationist and expert on the politics of forest management. He was extremely involved on campus outside the classroom. Schiff demonstrated his passion for conservation through instances such as when he allegedly chained himself to a threatened tree, the tallest conifer on campus at the time that was about to be toppled by a bulldozer. Schiff also helped prevent the erosion of Roth Pond by
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