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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

With additional support from Curbell

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

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Olmsted Parks Conservancy hires Margaret Lapp after national search

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NATIONAL SEARCHES HAVE RESULTED IN NONPROFIT EXECUTIVES COMING TO BUFFALO FOR POSITIONS AT COMMUNITY ACTION ORGANIZATION OF WNY AND THE BUFFALO OLMSTED PARKS CONSERVANCY.

Olmsted Parks hired Margaret Lapp as its first curator for the South Park Arboretum. Lapp holds a master’s in landscape architecture from SUNY College of Environmental Sciences and Forestry and a master’s in public health from SUNY Upstate Medical University. Read More

Virtual Walk: South Park

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Enjoy a virtual walk around South Park, a 156-acre Olmsted Park designed in 1894 that included plans for an impressive arboretum. Plans also proposed a conservatory (now the Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens).

Phase 1 of the South Park Arboretum Restoration Project began in 2019, with support from several founding donors along with the First Niagara Foundation, in partnership with KeyBank. Learn more here: bfloparks.org/sparp