Posts Tagged ‘ open space ’

Scenic Hudson protects view from FDR home | poughkeepsiejournal.com HIGHLAND — Scenic Hudson has taken another major step in protecting the view from the Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site in Hyde Park. The land preservation group has purchased 160 acres of woodlands directly across the Hudson River from the FDR site, which includes his Springwood...
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Quantifying open space loss from urban sprawl – Front Page A new housing development in San Jose, CA. Image credit, Sean O'Flaherty.A new study in the journal PLoS ONE finds that 1.4 million hectares of open space was lost to urban sprawl in the United States from 1990 – 2000. Robert McDonald from the Nature Conservancy...
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Rental unit occupancy rates are down as are rents as fewer are able to afford the high cost of local residency. Brewster has so many apartments for rent they don't know what to do and the homeless population is rising across the nation as people are forced out of their homes and apartments for...
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Conservation easement acquired for Red Hook farm RED HOOK – Environmental organization Scenic Hudson has protected the largest agricultural property in its history of farmland preservation, acquiring a conservation easement that extinguishes development rights to the 378-acre McKeon Farm in the Town of Red Hook. The transaction guarantees the land will continue contributing to Red Hook’s...
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Tom Andersen is the director of communications and special projects at the Westchester Land Trust. The countywide organization based in Bedford Hills works with private property owners and communities to protect open land and create new parks. It preserved more than 400 acres in 2009. Q: A lot of what the Westchester Land Trust does...
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"Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an underground dictatorship. . . . The Constitution of this republic should make special privilege for medical freedom as well as religious freedom." Dr. Benjamin Rush - Signer, Declaration of Independence.
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Pa. steel town hopes to make green comeback VANDERGRIFT, Pa. (AP) — Imagine: It's 1895. A steel baron hires New York's Central Park designer Frederick Law Olmsted to build a town in western Pennsylvania where mill workers can live, work and play. By the turn of the century, Vandergrift's rounded buildings and roads flow along...
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