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Friday & Saturday: June 2022
In Celebration of Dragonfly Day & 25 Years of Friends of the Long Pond Greenbelt! 

FRIDAY:
​Kids Dragonfly Walk & Art Competion

Local school are invited to bring groups of students at allocated times, the program takes approximately one hour. Classes are welcome to stay longer and participate in the art program (& receive a free book with photographs and their art!)
Featuring:

• Recycled Prehistoric Dragonfly Competition
• Educational dragonfly & wetlands outside slide presentation
• Dragonfly walk with a DEC Expert
• Art workshop, classes are invited to stay and complete their artworks and have them featured in a free book that they will receive!

SATURDAY:
​Dragonfly Walk & Local Causes

Open to the general public on Saturday
Join us on Saturday! For a Dragonfly Spectacular!

Featuring local organizations..

• Composting station
• Recycling know how
• Draw-Down East End
• etc

What is Dragonfly Day?

​​The New York State Legislature passed the resolution for June 9th, 2018 to be recognized as Dragonfly Day in New York State, and each year after that.

Dragonfly Day is an opportunity to hold educational events in New York State to increase awareness of the value of wetlands and encourage the implementation of climate change adaption strategies and learn about how to reduce CO2 emissions.​

*It is with thanks to Assemblyman Fred Thiele and Senator Kenneth LaValle that for Dragonfly Day an opportunity to educate the public and enact changes that will protect our environment. 

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Hold a Dragonfly Day Event in Your Local Community:
It takes 8 hours of your time...

• Organize a dragonfly walk (savoring our wildlife & environment generates the will to save it)
• Increase awareness on chemical-free lawns, farms and gardens
• Organize rain-garden projects to protect waterways and sensitive areas from storm water run-off
• Invite an environmental organization to run a water quality testing workshop
• Plant trees and learn about how tree-lined roads absorb 30% of pollution

Organize an Event

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Dragonfly Day June 9th, 2018

Dragonfly Day Educational Events: Hold an Event! Its EASY

For example, this was the schedule for our Dragonfly Day event in 2018 on the East End of Long Island:
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​CMEE (Childrens Museum of the East End): 10-12:00pm
10:00-12:00 Dragonfly art show! Local 5th Graders display their dragonfly art-work. 
10:00-12:00 Tabling: Sierra Club Long Island, Peconac Trust, Peconic Estuary Project, Accabonac Protection Committee, Surfrider Foundation.
10:00-12:00 Long Island dragonfly dark room! Slide show with hundreds of beautiful dragonflies; some are extinct/disappeared (Jean Held).
10:30-11:30 Build rain-gardens at CMEE with Long Island Native Plant Initiative. 
11:30-12:00 Refreshments. 
 
SOFO (South Fork Natural History Museum and Nature Center):12-2:00pm
12:00-12:15 Fred Thiele will present the proclamation NYS Dragonfly Day 2018. 
12:15-12:35 Frank Quevedo will talk on predators and climate adaption.
12:35-12:50 The Perfect Earth Project: alternatives to chemical use on lawns, compost tea, the soil biome and water quality. 
12:50-01:30 Dragonfly walk with an Odonata expert! 
01:30-02:00 Water quality testing workshop by the Surfrider Foundation.