New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has launched an online platform for the public to report suspected Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) outbreaks in wild birds. The platform was designed as part of an ongoing effort to monitor HPAI in New York. [Read more…] about Report Suspected Cases of Avian Influenza in Wild Birds
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Farming Sullivan County: Some History & Statistics
Cushetunk, the first permanent European settlement in the Upper Delaware River region, part of which would later become Sullivan County, was established in the 1750s by a group of farmers from Eastern Connecticut who wanted to own their own farmland and traveled here to find it.
But those Connecticut settlers were not the first farmers in the region by a long shot. The Native American Lenape tribe, which spent the warm weather months here for thousands of years before the Europeans arrived, depended upon farming, along with hunting and fishing, for survival. [Read more…] about Farming Sullivan County: Some History & Statistics
19th Century Chicken and Egg Oddities Reported in New York Newspapers
You’ve heard of bad jokes. How about fowl tales? Here is a collection of 19th century chicken and egg oddities collected from Northern New York historic newspapers:
Are drumsticks that come from a four-legged chicken half-price at the grocer? “A curiosity in the shape of a four-legged chicken, five days old, is exhibited in one of the windows of I.N. Scott & Sons grocery store, Ridge Street [in Glens Falls],” The Morning Star reported on May 25, 1894. “It is the property of Alexander Bovair, Coffin Street.” [Read more…] about 19th Century Chicken and Egg Oddities Reported in New York Newspapers