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Year round resort is seeking local Line Cooks and Kitchen Workers to come join our team.  Flexible hours in a beautiful work environment.  Immediate openings available.

Please contact Hr@oorah.org with resume.

Catskill Forest Association's Education Forester - Ryan Trapani - maple sugaring by hand in Ulster County. It was some year! The best season in 7 years. The sap was running heavy, and the sugar contents reached extremely high levels - averaging 2.5%. Normal is 2.0% and equates to 42 gallons of sap that need to be boiled down to make 1 gallon of maple syrup. At 2.5%, the ratio is 33 to 1. Sometimes the sap would even freeze. After discarding the ice, the sugar was left behind leaving sugar contents as high as 3.5% or 23.5 to 1.  Read more

Above: Evidence of hemlock wooly adelgid. Photo by Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station Archive, Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station / © Bugwood.org / CC-BY-3.0-US.

By Ryan Trapani

Each hunting season there is a certain amount of deer that must be harvested in order to last me through the year. Normally I first hunt those areas that are both accessible and abundant in deer. These conditions are usually met in the larger, more fertile valleys where a diversity of food and cover sources is available for wildlife. Fortunately, minimum deer harvest quotas were met early on and allowed for more time to be allocated towards hunting inaccessible areas in the mountains. Hunting these areas offers another type of hunting experience. Deer behavior and physiology can differ significantly when hunting pressure is low. Sitting in a tree-stand far away from the familiar sounds of human dwelling, the forest and its inhabitants become the focus.  Read more

On Wednesday, 3/6 at 6:30pm in Margaretivlle, come to a beginner's guide to online advertising on Facebook, Twitter, Google and more. Call or email Julia Reischel at 845-481-0155 or julia.reischel@watershedpost.com, or register online below. 

Introduction to online advertising

Facebook Ads, Google AdWords, LinkedIn, and more: Online advertising is a billion-dollar-a-year business. But most people are mystified by how online ads work. Here’s the beginner’s guide to setting up an ad on three different sites and making sure you don’t pay too much for it.

At the end of the session, you will be able to:  Read more

Put up your own website -- the fast, low-tech, free way

You can put up a simple, good-looking website for free in five minutes. A step-by-step guide to using free web-based software to post and manage your webpage. Bonus: How to outsmart domain name squatters and thieves.

At the end of the session, you will be able to:

• Create a personalized website in ten minutes
• Know which software -- Tumblr, TypePad, Blogger, or WordPress – is best for you
• Know the ins and outs of domain names, whether you should buy that .biz URL or not
• Avoid the five biggest mistakes rookie webpages make
• Get the URL you want before a malevolent squatter gets it first

Class sessions:
Monday, March 4: Margaretville E-Center, 6:30 to 8:30pm (cancelled)  Read more

By Ryan Trapani

The maple sugaring season is knocking on the door – especially with all this mild weather we have been experiencing recently. When temperatures begin to rise above freezing during the day and fall below freezing at night – sap flow begins. Last year, this type of weather pattern occurred earlier than normal in late January and early February. Typically, maple producers throughout the Catskills tap in late February and early March.  Read more

By Ryan Trapani, Catskill Forest Association. (Pictured above in orange out in the field.)

During this time of year some of us are preoccupied in the pursuit of the white-tailed deer. Whether it is waiting patiently thirty feet in a tree or slowly stalking on the forest floor – one has ample time to observe his surroundings. Typically I elect the former – waiting patiently 30 feet in a tree. Up there one gains a vantage point offering a comprehensive view of the forest and its peculiarities. Where will the deer come from? Where will they go? Where is a good place for them to seek cover in, or simply commute through? What will they feed upon? These questions flow into each other like tributaries into a stream – ultimately creating a reservoir of potentialities, strategies and… what could be.  Read more

We're hosting another edition of our popular "Facebook for Businesses" class on Wednesday, November 28 from 6:30pm to 8pm. Come by and work off your Thanksgiving pounds with ninja tricks for the biggest of all social media websites.

The class costs $35. It will be held in the classroom at the Delaware County E-Center at 5 1/2 Main Street in Delhi, next to the Pizza Hut. Laptops will be provided, but you are welcome to bring your own. Get in touch with me at 845-481-0155 or julia.reischel@watershedpost.com to register, or click the "Buy Now" button on the class description below.

Facebook for businesses: A beginner's guide

Make Facebook's powerful free tools promote your business while keeping your private life private. Learn our hard-won ninja tricks. A basic introduction to Facebook for those with little or no experience with social media.

At the end of the session, you will be able to:  Read more