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At the end of our visit together, Harriett offered up two copies of her fantastic new DVD, Preserving With Friends for giveaway! This is the most comprehensive and informative resource you will find on preserving – perfect for the preservation veteran or for you all who are just starting out. The DVD includes downloadable recipes [...] [...] Farm waiting since ’06 for $2.7M in state aid | LoHud.com CORTLANDT — When former Gov. George Pataki came to Hemlock Hill Farm in May 2006 to announce that Hemlock would receive a $2.7 million grant to preserve it as an agricultural business, he reminisced about buying Thanksgiving turkeys there as a boy and mourned that his own family farm in Peekskill was now a subdivision. Hemlock Hill might not be raising any more turkeys this fall, since the family that has run it for more than 70 years is still waiting for that check and the wolf is truly at the door. The farm is facing bankruptcy, the De Maria family said. “I understand there can be problems with paperwork, but if we operated like that, we’d go under,” said Laura De Maria , who runs the farm with her father, John De Maria, and four other full-time employees. She said at the time the grant was announced, state officials told her they would put a rush on it to make it a two-year process, not the usual three. Hemlock Hill Farm isn’t the only one in northern Westchester County that was granted money through the state’s [...] Efforts to restore the Everglades have picked up urgency in the last decade: the sprawling subtropical wetland, the only ecosystem of its kind, is dying for lack of clean water. Many environmentalists remain convinced that Mr. Crist’s deal with United States Sugar, even in its downsized form, offers the Everglades its best hope. But documents and interviews suggest that the price tag and terms of the deal could set back Everglades restoration for years, or even decades. Negotiations favored United States Sugar from the start, when the state accepted two outside firms’ appraisals of the company’s land that used figures from the height of the real estate market, according to documents. When a “fairness opinion” commissioned by the state found that those appraisals had overvalued the land by $400 million, Florida officials orchestrated a public relations campaign to discredit the findings, internal e-mail showed. Appraisers from the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, which was required to sign off on the deal, were also cut out of the process after raising concerns, e-mail messages showed. When it came time to decide which land to buy, state officials acknowledged that United States Sugar was, as one official put it during an [...] 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 home and presidential library and museum. “This ranks as one of the most critical acquisitions in Scenic Hudson's history, preserving a landscape of international importance,” said Ned Sullivan, president of Scenic Hudson. The land purchased was targeted for an extensive residential development. It is also visible from the Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site. The stunning views of the Highland woodlands from both Hyde Park historic sites contribute to their being among the Hudson Valley's leading tourist attractions, said Jay Burgess, Scenic Hudson communications director. via Scenic Hudson protects view from FDR home | poughkeepsiejournal.com | Poughkeepsie Journal. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/19/nyregion/19towns.html April 19, 2009 Our Towns To Preserve or to Pave Over History By PETER APPLEBOME FISHKILL, N.Y. History is what we choose to remember, and there have been many reasons not to remember too much about the Fishkill Encampment and Supply Depot, a sprawling military city that became the most important northern supply center during the Revolutionary War. No stirring battle was won there. Life was brutish and often short, a place of smallpox, frostbite and mutiny, where wounded soldiers had limbs sawed off and covered with tar, where, as one contemporary account put it, soldiers “patched their clothes until patches and clothing both gave out and the garments dropped from their bodies,” where hundreds, perhaps well over a thousand, were buried in unmarked graves. No grand building was left behind. And over time the lure of commerce and utility — the Dutchess Mall on one side of Route 9, a Hess gas station and a Mexican cafe on the other, a pump station up the road — meant more than the hoarse whispers of history. It’s probably too late for Fishkill to become New York’s Valley Forge or Morristown, even though it was [...] Help Protect the Great Swamp in the NY Highlands. Less than 70 miles from New York City is the Great Swamp. This 63,000-acre watershed is breeding habitat for more than 90 bird species and migratory habitat for more than 150 species of waterfowl. It provides numerous benefits to residents of New York and Connecticut, including drinking water, flood control, recreation, open space, and wildlife habitat. It is a Highlands Critical Treasure and is part of the proposed route of the Highlands Trail through Putnam County and into Connecticut. The Great Swamp is a recreation destination and allows for numerous forms of recreation such as hiking, paddling bird watching, cross-country skiing, snowshoeing and fishing. In 2008 Congress put forward $1 million dollars through the Highlands Conservation Act (HCA) to protect 647 acres [...] |
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