Mohonk Preserve

Environmental education - education programs at Mohonk Preserve stimulate excitement and understanding about nature, consistent with our mission to inspire people to care for, enjoy and explore the natural world. Annually we serve over 5,000 children and adults each year through our innovative outdoor education, camp and public programs for students and the public in general. Annually the education program serves over 20 schools, providing over 170 programs, while the summer camp program sees over 100 school-age campers annually.

Visitor program - the visitor experience program is responsible for managing trailhead operations, public use of facilities and grounds, and assuring a safe and positive visitor experience while also providing stewardship to the land. The program oversees and fosters efforts to ensure the 300,000 annual visitors to Mohonk Preserve feel welcomed and have a sense of belonging while being on the property. This includes overseeing the visitor center operations, providing ranger support to resuce lost or injured visitors, greeting visitors at our 6 trailheads, and providing informational signage across the property. Visitor experience is also focused on ensuring meaningful opportunities for recreational access for people with differing abilities, working with adaptive climbing and hiking groups to improve their overall experiences when visiting Mohonk Preserve.

Land stewardship - the stewardship program oversses land and facilities management across Mohonk Preserve's 8,000 acres. This includes overseeing the care and maintenance of 30 miles of gravel carriage roads, 40 miles of foot trails, dozens of buildings for progammatic, office and staff housing uses, a vehicle fleet and providing support for the management of forest and fields in coordination with our conservation program. Stewardship efforts include the renovation and re-purposing of an historic farmhouse for the new home of the conservation & education programs, the restoration of a free-flowing stream by removing an old, failing dam, installing and managing ev chargers at vmultiple locations, and working towards decarbonizing all of the buildings on Mohonk Preserve to lower the overall carbon footprint.

Conservation programs - Mohonk Preserve land protection efforts include periodically purchasing or accepting by donation fee-simple land, conservation easements on parcels of private land, and other interest involving real property 9non-conservation easements, leases, licenses, rights-of-way, etc.). Mohonk Preserve collaborates with other organizations to protect and Preserve open space in the shawangunk mountains region and ensures that the long-term capacity and resources to properly and sustainably manage and maintain the shawangunk region's ecosystems and habitats, scenic viewsheds, recreational assets and rich culutral landscape are determined to be either in place or secured as a condition of acquiring land or an interest in land. Coupled with land protection efforts Mohonk Preserve's conservation science efforts involved staff, volunteers and partners using the latest conservation science techniques, along with legacy data sets actively managed by the organization, to monitor and manage the diverse ecosystems across the shawangunk