Welcome to ELLA!

ELLA’s mission is to bring together town-appointed members of conservation, environmental, and open space commissions from across New York’s Hudson Hills and Highlands to strengthen environmental protection at a regional level, through environmental training, sharing lessons learned, and fostering collaboration.

 

ELLA now has 119 members
from 28 towns and villages!

 

ELLA News and Learning Opportunities:

January 2012! ELLA has been awarded a grant from the Westchester Community Foundation to develop a training program on site plan interpretation. Applications are currently being accepted. Click here for details - more

 

Here is a review of biodiversity-friendly ordinances in the villages and towns within the Hudson Hills and Highlands. The goal of this project was to determine what local municipalities are doing to protect biodiversity; ELLA Towns; ELLA Villages

 

THANK YOU! to the ELLA members who attended the September 17 workshop. Below are the speaker presentations; Sept 2011 TalkRoundtable Survey Summary ReportNature-Friendly Ordinance Presentation

 

 

Upcoming Events and Updates:

WATER WORDS THAT WORK! SATURDAY, MAY 19TH AT TEATOWN LAKE RESERVATION - More

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SCENES FROM THE REGIONAL STREAM CONSERVATION PROJECT

Clean-up day in Ossining: Dale Ave Park- Sing Sing Kill

Yorktown - Junior Lake Pawling - Cushman Farms  Bedford - Memorial Park
ELLA has received a grant from the Westchester Community Foundation for its Stream Conservation and Restoration Project! www.wcf-ny.org