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A plaque that reads Forever Wild commemorates Professor Ashley Schiff in The Ashley Schiff Park Preserve. The preserve was established in 20.. by President John Toll, but lacks any legal protection. BRITTNEY DIETZ/THE STATESMAN

USG urges administration to protect Ashley Schiff Preserve

Saad Haroon November 11, 2022
Members of the Undergraduate Student Government (USG) passed a resolution to encourage the university to legally protect the Ashley Schiff Park Preserve on Oct. 27.
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50 years forever wild: Looking back on the Ashley Schiff Preserve

50 years “forever wild”: Looking back on the Ashley Schiff Preserve

Brianne Ledda, Margaret Osborne, and Taylor Beglane October 11, 2019
When Stony Brook University decided to bulldoze the tallest conifer tree on campus in the 1960s, political science professor Dr. Ashley Schiff chained himself to its trunk.
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Photo Credit: ForestWander Via CC BY SA 3.0 US

Bees get buzzed to the endangered species list

Sharon Pochron October 20, 2016
Reading this might turn you into a bee-hugger.
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Sex Issue 2016

Stony Brook professor’s erotic fiction past

Rebecca Liebson February 11, 2016
Pochron, who runs the Sustainability Studies earthworm ecotoxicology lab at Stony Brook, wrote erotic romance novels under a penname from 2006 to 2010.
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Under the microscope: Roundup and fertilizer kill worms

Ruchi Shah March 4, 2014
A recent study led by Dr. Sharon Pochron, a lecturer in the Sustainability Studies program at Stony Brook University, sheds light on the short and long-term effects of using the RoundUp insecticide and fertilizers.
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