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Dec 18
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Olmsted Month in your Buffalo Olmsted Parks

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Join the Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy (BOPC) in launching its bustling park season with Olmsted Month – a community-led effort that brings corporate leaders together to prepare all 850-acres of parkland for the spring and summer.

Olmsted Month unites your philanthropic dollars with customized teambuilding and the opportunity to give back. When you volunteer in a Buffalo Olmsted Park, you are supporting the 1 million+ people who visit the parks annually for connection to nature and community.

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Each park landscape contains specific needs in the fields of horticulture, ecological restoration, or general park management. Projects may include weeding, mulching, invasive species removal, perennial and native plantings, and other garden maintenance tasks.

Olmsted Month will kick off on Earth Day, April 22, with volunteer events running through the park system until May 22. Interested in getting involved with Olmsted Month? Contact Jeanne at jeanne@bfloparks.org.

Olmsted Month is generously presented by National Fuel

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With additional support from Curbell

The Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy Volunteer Program is generously supported by M&T Bank

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Apr 26
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Virtual Walk: Front, Columbus and Prospect Parks

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Take a virtual walk around Front, Columbus and Prospect Parks. Front Park is one of three original parks included in Olmsted’s initial plan for Buffalo’s park system.

Its chief feature was the semi-circular terrace designed to command a panoramic view of Lake Erie and the opening of the Niagara River. Here, Olmsted remarked, one could observe “a river effect such as can be seen, I believe, nowhere else — a certain quivering of the surface and a rare tone of color, the result of the crowding upward of the lake waters as they enter the deep portal of the Niagara.”