Sunday, July 19, 2026
9:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Join HHLT staff and our partners at Wild Woods Restoration Project for a guided plant ID walk at Lane Gate Preserve in Cold Spring, NY, on Sunday, July 19. The walk will be led by Linda Rohleder, founder of the Wild Woods Restoration Project. As we wander through the preserve’s trails, we’ll take a closer look at the plants around us, learning the key characteristics and terminology used to identify species common to our local forests.
What to bring: Don’t forget water! A magnifying glass is handy if you have one, and if you’re into birdwatching, bring your binoculars along too — a few loaner supplies will be available, but quantities are limited.
Registration is required! Admission is free, and you’ll receive more details via email after registering.
Please note there are no restrooms at the preserve. Have binoculars?
About Linda Rohleder
Dr. Linda Rohleder is the founder of Wild Woods Restoration Project and serves as the primary leader of the organization. She was previously Director of Land Stewardship at the New York–New Jersey Trail Conference, where she built the Trail Conference’s Invasive Strike Force volunteer program starting in 2011. By 2021, the program had trained over 400 invasive-mapping volunteers who collectively surveyed more than 1,500 miles of hiking trails for invasive plants. She organized more than 100 invasive plant removal workdays and ran a seasonal conservation corps crew for seven years to remove invasive plants in parks across southern New York and northern New Jersey. Dr. Rohleder was also the founding coordinator of the Lower Hudson Partnership for Regional Invasive Species Management (PRISM) in New York, leading it for almost ten years. She grew the partnership to over 50 organizations and agencies, and led the development and implementation of a regional strategy for invasive species management in the Lower Hudson. In addition, Dr. Rohleder led a volunteer group to create and maintain the Trail Conference’s native plant gardens from 2016 through 2021 and conduct restoration projects at sites on New York and New Jersey state park lands.
In 2013, Dr. Rohleder received her PhD in Ecology from Rutgers University, where she studied the effects of deer on forest understories. While attending graduate school she worked as a seasonal park resource assistant in Monmouth County, NJ, and taught beginning Biology labs at Rutgers and Wetland Plant ID for Rutgers’ Wetland Delineation certification series. Dr. Rohleder has also spent more than 20 years creating native plant wildlife habitat on her own properties both in New Jersey and New York.