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New York Metropolitan Flora Project Volunteer Form

Help Study the Flora

If you wish to assist us in surveying the species in the New York metropolitan region, please fill out the form below. If you have any questions, please call (718) 623-7314 or email: Steven D. Glenn.

First Name: Last Name: Address 1: Address 2: City: State: Zip Code: Work Phone: Fax: E-mail (required):

Block Selection

Please be as specific or as general as you wish about the location(s) you would like to survey. (You can list the actual block number or numbers if you know them.)

Number of blocks you'd
like to survey: Location 1: County: Choose a county Bergen Bronx Essex Fairfield Hudson Hunterdon Kings (Brooklyn) Mercer Middlesex Monmouth Morris Nassau New York Orange Passaic Putnam Queens Richmond Rockland Somerset Suffolk Sussex Union Warren Westchester State: Choose a state New York New Jersey Connecticut Location 2: County: Choose a county Bergen Bronx Essex Fairfield Hudson Hunterdon Kings (Brooklyn) Mercer Middlesex Monmouth Morris Nassau New York Orange Passaic Putnam Queens Richmond Rockland Somerset Suffolk Sussex Union Warren Westchester State: Choose a state New York New Jersey Connecticut

How You Can Help

The New York Metropolitan Flora project is such a huge undertaking that researchers at Brooklyn Botanic Garden would never be able to complete the study on our own. We are depending on the efforts of volunteers. You don't have to be intimate with every woody species in the region or even have formal botanical training to participate.

Here's how the project works

We have partitioned the study area into approximately 1000 5 km x 5 km blocks. BBG staff are visiting blocks in order to collect voucher specimens for the Garden's herbarium (and, eventually, distribution to other herbaria in the region) and to make a written record of the species they observe. Volunteers have also been visiting blocks and making written notations on the species found there.

If you're interested, fill out the form above and let us know which area or areas you wish to survey. You can be specific about the area, pinpointing, say, a town or a state park. Or you can simply indicate your desire to survey a general area, such as "northwest of Freehold," "eastern Nassau County" or "Sussex County," and we'll assign a block to you.

If you don't have the time to participate in the survey but would like to make a tax-deductible contribution to the New York Metropolitan Flora project, please take the opportunity to visit our Development section.

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