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By Julia Reischel on Monday, Sep. 13, 2010 - 11:42 am
Up here amongst the hills and trees, it's easy to think that the Catskills' perennial tensions with New York City over water are something that only locals know or care about. Not so. Witness this audio interview with Tracy Stanton, the "water program... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Sep. 13, 2010 - 8:29 am
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation recently put a halt to work on a federal conservation project at the Shawangunk Grasslands National Wildlife Refuge. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is covering the old runways of the... Read more
By wateradmin on Sunday, Sep. 12, 2010 - 1:56 am
Note: The Watershed Post is hugely stinkin' grateful to two very talented individuals for this story, a look at the wild and woolly cast of characters in the race for New York State governor. One is its author, Steve Hopkins, who's the editor and... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Sep. 11, 2010 - 10:58 am
The Half Moon on the Hudson last year. Photo by ennuipoet, via Flickr. Some rights reserved.
On the morning of September 11th, 2001, a group of 12 seventh-graders from cities in upstate New York was anchored in New York Harbor near the Statue of Liberty... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Saturday, Sep. 11, 2010 - 10:17 am
Police found about 75 huge pot plants in Kingston yesterday. From a press release by the Ulster Regional Gang Enforcement Narcotics Team (URGENT):
The plants were located near a quarry pond on 1st Avenue near Kingston Street. Most of the plants were over... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Sep. 10, 2010 - 4:03 pm
A retired Iowa environmentalist who grew up in the Catskills told the Sioux City Journal this week about a vision he received as a child when pneumonia sent him into a high, delirious fever. The vision, of a fox wearing an interestingly dressy garment,... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Sep. 10, 2010 - 2:11 pm
The county board of supervisors may not have shown up, but there were plenty of reporters and video cameras at Wednesday's protest of gas drilling in Delhi, in Delaware County. (Read our coverage of the rally here.)
One of the attendees behind a lens was... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Sep. 10, 2010 - 1:00 pm
Norman Muller, a contributor to a blog about rock piles (really!), came across this teeth-baring boulder near the site of the old Catskill Mountain House in Palenville this week and had to write about it:
My wife and I went to the site of Catskill... Read more
By Hanford Mills Museum on Friday, Sep. 10, 2010 - 12:56 pm
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