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Shawangunk Grasslands

ADK Conservation News: 5 Things You Need to Know

April 1, 2022 by Justin Levine Leave a Comment

Adirondack Lean-toOpening Up the Adirondacks

The Adirondack Council’s Aaron Mair and Assemblywoman Michaelle Solage were recently on the Capitol Pressroom radio show out of Albany. Mair and Solage made the case for the state budget to include funding to create the Timbuctoo Summer Climate and Jobs Institute, which would provide job and environmental training to high school students who may not otherwise get much exposure to the Adirondacks. The effort would involve Medgar Evers College in New York City and the SUNY School of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse. [Read more…] about ADK Conservation News: 5 Things You Need to Know

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Nature, Recreation Tagged With: Adirondack Park, Adirondacks, Catskill, clean water, High Peaks, road salt, Shawangunk Grasslands

Prescribed Burn At Shawangunk Grasslands

March 26, 2021 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Prescribed burn in Ulster CountyOn March 15th, NYS State Department of Conservation Forest Rangers in Region 3 assisted the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS) with a prescribed burn at the Shawangunk Grasslands National Wildlife Refuge.

The Refuge is located in Ulster County, NY, at the site of the former Galeville Military Airport. The airport was decommissioned in 1994 and turned over to the United States Fish and Wildlife Service in 1999.

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Filed Under: Hudson Valley - Catskills, Nature Tagged With: Fires, Forest Rangers, nature, Shawangunk Grasslands

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