Harold H. Malkmes Wildlife Education and Ecology Center

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The Harold H. Malkmes Wildlife Education and Ecology Center is a park, zoo, and ecology site in Holtsville, New York, and operated by the Town of Brookhaven, and located on the site of a former landfill. The official address is 249 Buckley Road, although some of the land owned by the site extends along Blue Point Road and as far south as Woodside Avenue. The ecology center was named for former Town of Brookhaven Superintendent of Highways Harold H. Malkmes (1925-2011), who was still an active member of the Town Government at the time it was opened. [1]

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Attractions

The Harold H. Malkmes Wildlife Education and Ecology Center contains an Animal Wildlife Center, with free admission, containing over 100 injured or non-releasable wild and farm animals, including mountain lions. [2] One well-known resident is groundhog "Holtsville Hal", who emerges each Groundhog Day to make a weather prediction. [3]

The center also offers greenhouses, a picnic area, a 1.2-mile (1.9 km) paved exercise trail, free compost and wood chips, and a town pool (with an admission fee).

History

The site of the Ecology Center was once a general dump owned by New York State, and was acquired by the Town of Brookhaven in 1937 for use as a town dump. Prior to this, the right of way for the Suffolk Traction Company trolley line also ran through this location. In 1968, the State Environmental Facilities Corporation converted the site into a sanitary landfill with seepage lagoons, and closed the facility completely by 1974. [4] By 1971, the park was already under development, [5] and opened in 1979. [6]

The animal preserve has included mountain lions since 1987, when "Kimo" was recovered from an owner who had abused him. [2]

The site faced closure due to budget cuts proposed in the 2013 Brookhaven Town Budget. [7] However, as of 2016 the center remains open, officially known as the Town of Brookhaven Wildlife and Ecology Center. [8]

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References

  1. ↑ Harold H. Malkmes; 1925-2011 (Find-A-Grave)
  2. 1 2 "Holtsville's free zoo is the big cats' meow". Newsday . Dec 13, 2008.
  3. ↑ "Record crowd expected for Holtsville Hal's forecast". Newsday . Feb 1, 2009.
  4. ↑ "From Resource Conservation And Recovery Act To Proffer Agreements". New York Law Journal . Apr 13, 2001. Archived from the original on 2008-11-23.
  5. ↑ "Suffolk Park Rising on Garbage". The New York Times . Sep 12, 1971.
  6. ↑ Silverman, Francine. Long Island Alive!, Hunter Publishing (NJ), 2002, p. 272-73
  7. ↑ "Brookhaven unveils final budget cuts" (News 12 Long Island; September 13, 2012) [ permanent dead link ]
  8. ↑ "Wildlife & Ecology Center". Town of Brookhaven. Retrieved August 12, 2016.

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