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By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011 - 5:22 pm
A truck injection. Photo from the Arborjet website.
The insatiable emerald ash borer, an invasive insect that is death to ash trees, has already been spotted in parts of the Catskills, including Kingston, Saugerties, and locations in Greene County. While... Read more
By Pure Catskills on Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011 - 3:56 pm
Karen Rauter, Stream Management Coordinator for the Rondout and Neversink basins, is the featured guest on Watershed Wednesday with Tara Collins of the Watershed Agricultural Council on February 23 at 1 p.m. Karen will share information about the Catskill... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011 - 2:34 pm
In the NY Daily News yesterday: An editorial urging the city to buy every last possible scrap of land in the Catskill-Delaware watershed, to forestall the massive cost of another filtration plant like the one recently built to handle water from the Croton... Read more
By wateradmin on Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011 - 1:08 pm
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011 - 10:11 am
If you could build your dream cabin in the Catskills, what would it look like? For architect Peter Gluck, it would be the cube cottage pictured above, which is designed to hold 10,000 books, a desk, a beautiful view, and not much else. From an article on... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011 - 9:00 am
Today, the Daily Freeman has a revealing interview with James Tierney, the assistant commissioner for water resources at the state's Department of Environmental Convervation.
The topic is New York City's decision to clear out its Ashokan reservoir this... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Feb. 21, 2011 - 9:32 am
The Delaware River Basin Committee will be taking its draft regulations for gas drilling to the people this week at three sites in Pennsylvania and New York. We wrote about the meeting dates and times in an earlier post:
The public hearings will be held 1... Read more
By wateradmin on Sunday, Feb. 20, 2011 - 9:06 am
Potshots," by Bovina artist Gary Mayer, runs every Sunday. You can see Gary's collected Sunday cartoons by clicking here.
Mayer is an artist who's lived in Bovina for the past seven years. Originally hailing from Detroit, he lived for many years in New... Read more
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