Events
Conservation Conversations
Sponsored by Rich Products and The Nature Conservancy
The Buffalo Niagara River Land Trust Speaker Series brings together the community and experts to explore how we can reclaim and restore Western New York’s waterfronts.
Through these conversations, we highlight our mission to clean, protect, and keep these places in trust—ensuring public access, environmental health, and community pride for generations to come.
We’ll ask, What is a brownfield? What is the difference between a Land Bank, a Land Conservancy, and a Land Trust? We will learn about phytoremediation–the use of plants and trees that are especially good for removing contaminants from the soil, groundwater, and sediment–think cattails and cottonwood trees.
Conservation Conversations –
Land Trust 101
🎟 Cost: FREE but please register
📅 Date: Wednesday, November 5
⏰ Time: 7-8:30 pm
📍 Location: Black Rock Harbor Center
52 Amherst St.
Buffalo, NY 14207
Featuring our Executive Director, Tracy Fletcher, and our BNRLT Board President Matt Fitzgerald.
Conservation Conversations –
Best Native Plants for WNY Gardens
🎟 Cost: FREE but please register
📅 Date: Wednesday, December 3
⏰ Time: 7-8:30 pm
📍 Location: Black Rock Harbor Center
52 Amherst St.
Buffalo, NY 14207
Featuring Ken Parker, CNLP, The Native Plant Guy.
Conservation Conversations – Turning Gray to Green: Post-Industrial Restoration and Urban Ecological Connectivity in Buffalo, NY
🎟 Cost: FREE but please register
📅 Date: Wednesday, January 7
⏰ Time: 7-8:30 pm
📍 Location: Black Rock Harbor Center
52 Amherst St.
Buffalo, NY 14207
Featuring Nicholas Henshue, M.S. Ph.D., Associate Professor of Ecology in UB’s Department of Environment and Sustainability, and SUNY Sustainability Fellow.
Conservation Conversations – From Brownfield to Bright Future: Transforming a Site through Design and Green Infrastructure
🎟 Cost: FREE but please register
📅 Date: Wednesday, February 4
⏰ Time: 7-8:30 pm
📍 Location: Enterprise Lumber & Silo
211 Main Street
North Tonawanda
Featuring Joy Kuebler, BNRLT Board Member and Playce Studio Ltd.
Conservation Conversations – A Decade of Urban Arts and Ecology at Silo City
🎟 Cost: FREE but please register
📅 Date: Wednesday, March 4
⏰ Time: 7-8:30 pm
📍 Location: Silo City
85 Silo City
Buffalo, NY 14203
Feauturing Josh Smith, BNRLT Board Member and Director of Ecology, Rigidized Metals Corporation and Maris Grundy, Executive Director, Friends of Silo City.
Conservation Conversations – On Indigenous History, Culture and the Land
🎟 Cost: FREE but please register
📅 Date: Wednesday, April 1
⏰ Time: 7-8:30 pm
📍 Location: Black Rock Harbor Center
52 Amherst St.
Buffalo, NY 14207
Featuring Melissa Leonard