GAINING GROUND

FALL 2019

In this issue: Our Fall Seasonal Calendar Eyes in the Sky: Top 10 Reasons to Look Up Out and About: Recapping the DLC’s Summer Events What You Can Do About the New Land Tax Laws The Secret Life of the Great Horned Owl Everett Cook: The Happy Preservation Warrior CONSERVATIONIST’S OUT IN THE OPEN: THE NATURE OF THINGS CALENDAR GREAT GOINGS ON by Karissa Stokdal

WHAT A SPORT, SEPT 21-22 lease introduce yourself. Stop by the DLC booth at the annual Orvis Game P Hi, I’m Owlbert. I am a Bubo virginianus, more commonly known as the Great Horned Owl. I get my name Fair and Sporting Weekend. The event features from the distinct, pointed feathers on top of my head, but they aren’t my only defining feature! I have bright, yellow more than 70 exhibitors and vendors, as well as eyes and a dark, black beak. If I sit up straight, I’m almost two feet tall! loads of activities and exhibits for kids and adults at the Sandanona Shooting Grounds. Fly-fishing Q: What’s your daily routine? demonstrations, dog-training seminars, a variety A: I’m a predatory bird with a diet more diverse than of hands-on youth programs and a Land Rover any other North American owl species. My sharp beak driving course are among the activities for visitors and talons allow me to catch and feast on rodents, who are encouraged to participate. Admission is amphibians, reptiles, fish, smaller birds and even other free. 3047 Sharon Turnpike, Millbrook. 845.677.9701 raptors. I prefer to do the majority of my hunting at or [email protected]. night because that’s when prey is most abundant. FAMILY FUN AT FARMFEST I can rotate my head more than 180 degrees to look in any direction and have excellent vision for hunting BACK ON THE FARM, SEPT 28 Irene and Jack Banning kept it lively at their fourth annual Farm- in the dark! I am very elusive and blend well with my Fest on Memorial Day Weekend at Black Sheep Hill Farm in Pine Join the DLC at Brookby Dairy’s Fall Farm Festival, surroundings, but sometimes you can catch me sitting Plains. Perfect weather ensured a great turnout of attendees, who packed with family activities and home-cooked in trees at dusk or in the early hours of the morning. found fresh foods, flowers and locally made products, as well as food. Tours of the milking barn, demonstrations Even if you have never seen me, I can guarantee farm animals for petting and other engaging activities for the kids. and the opportunity to meet and greet the animals you have heard my distinct call of one long hooooot, will be part of the fun at this historic farm. The family followed by three shorter hoots. will also host local food producers and artisans from FOREST FLYERS the Hudson Valley who will share their expertise on The DLC partnered with Audubon New York for a workshop Q: What’s your relationship status? cheese-making to yarn spinning. Admission is free. “Improving Habitat for Forest Birds” this past May. Participants A: Great horned owls are typically monogamous. My 62 Dover Furnace Road, Dover Plains. learned how to make their forests hospitable to our feathered nightly hooting warns other owls to stay away from our friends and continued outside for a picture-perfect birdwatching territory. As a male owl, I put out my call all year long FALL FETE, OCT 13 walk in the woods. but during the fall, my female counterpart also hoots as The Dutchess Land Conservancy’s annual Fall a display of courtship. Although many other species of Country Luncheon takes place each year on the COUNTING SHEEP bird are flying south for the winter, our mating season Sunday of Columbus Day weekend. The lunch The Sheep Dog Trials at Caora Farm near Millerton delighted is just getting started! We prefer elevated nesting sites, but rather than build our own we will move into provides an opportunity for the community to spectators with skilled sheep herding action. Nearly 50 handlers another critter’s abandoned nest. As early as January, come together to celebrate land conservation. and 100 dogs participated on a June weekend, creating an exciting my mate will lay her eggs, and by February we could This year’s program highlight will be a Birds of competition for spectators on this forever-protected working farm. have as many as six chicks. Prey exhibition. By invitation only. If you would like to SUMMER STROLLING receive an invitation, please contact us Q: Where do you live? On two summer Saturday mornings, folks enjoyed easy nature at 845.677.3002. A: Great horned owls thrive in a variety of habitats walks through the forests and fields of the DLC’s 435-acre from isolated forests to urban parks. We are native to Shekomeko property in North East. During the hikes, discussions the Americas and, with about a dozen subspecies, we ranged from identifying trees and frogs to managing invasive species can be found all over North America as well as a good and the views from the property’s high points were enjoyed by all. part of South America. We do, however, vary greatly in coloring depending on our location: dark sooty in the Pacific North West, to paler in the Southwest, to nearly white in sub-Artic Canada. If there are tall trees and prey available, you can bet we’re around somewhere. My own territory is right in the village of Rhinebeck. Keep your ears open for my hooting, I’m closer than you think! m PHOTO CREDITS: Greg Hume (owl) Greg CREDITS: PHOTO

This page: a great horned owl. Opposite, clockwise from top: visitors at Black Sheep Hill Farm; walking on the DLC’s Shekomeko 2 property; spectators at Caora Farm; birdwatching with Audubon New York; milking a cow at Brookby Dairy. On the cover: A springer 3 spaniel waits to take the plunge at a protected property in Verbank. Cover: Thompson-Finch Farm. Photo by Tara Kelly. THE EXPLORER’S NOTEBOOK by Julie Hart

What’s with all those lines of little holes in the tree bark? Most likely you’ve spotted a tree visited by a YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER (Sphyrapicus varius). This bird, as its name suggests, drinks tree sap as a major food source, and it does so by drilling multiple holes in the bark to It’s all too reach the tree’s conductive tissues (called xylem and phloem). Birch, maple and hickory are Fall: the season of back-to-school and back-to-work. favorite trees of the sapsucker because of the high sugar content in their sap. easy in our modern world to become buried in our work or studies with our heads dutifully craned down, staring at the glare of a glowing screen. For this edition When you walk in the forest, stop and look up every once in a while; take a moment to appreciate the TREE CANOPY above you. Notice the different leaf shapes and bark patterns of Explorer’s Notebook, the DLC’s Julie Hart reminds us to pick our heads up that define each tree species, enjoy the shade they provide and breathe in the oxygen they’re now and again and remember to take in the wonders of our natural world. producing through photosynthesis. Remain still and quiet and you’ll notice you’re not alone: the flicker of a bird’s wing will catch your eye, there are insects on the trunk and leaves, and a squirrel scampers through the high branches on its quest for food.

We seldom use the stars to navigate anymore (thanks GPS!), but stargazing is still a sublime human experience. Stars, galaxies, planets and even human-made objects, like the INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION, are all visible. NASA’s “Spot the Station” website, spotthestation.nasa.org, will help you find when and where to see the ISS. You’ll see an unblinking light visible for just a few See that big clump of leaves up in that tree? It’s a DREY, the home of an Eastern Gray Squirrel minutes as it moves quickly across the sky. The less light pollution in your area, the more stars (Sciurus carolinensis). Dreys are carefully constructed from dry leaves and twigs, lined with moss you’ll be able to see. To learn how to minimize light pollution, visit darksky.org. and dry grasses. Squirrels may be pests at the bird feeder, but they also bury nuts and seeds in the ground as a food supply for the winter. Because many of these nuts and seeds never get dug up and eaten, squirrels are great contributors to forest regeneration. They are planting tree Owls are mainly nocturnal birds who hunt at night, but where do they go during the day? seedlings galore! Many species like to roost on a high tree branch and often prefer conifers, such as hemlock or pine. Some of our smaller owls, like the EASTERN SCREECH OWL (Otus asio) and Did you know that CLOUDS are identified by genus and species names, just like plants and NORTHERN SAW-WHET OWL (Aegolius acadicus), may spend their days in a tree cavity. animals? The World Meteorological Organization’s International Cloud Atlas (cloudatlas. They don’t make these cavities themselves, but use existing holes created by woodpeckers or wmo.int) has great information on cloud identification and etymology of cloud names. Isn’t rotted wood. Check out the bird webcams on the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s website to see it great to know that spending hours gazing at cloud formations counts as serious scientific birds in their natural habitats at cams.allaboutbirds.org. observation? To explore “cloud-spotting,” take a look at photos of clouds from around the world at the Cloud Appreciation Society’s website at cloudappreciationsociety.com. Have you ever noticed that in some years there are loads of acorns on your oak tree and in other years there are hardly any? This process is called MASTING, and it’s common in oak, hickory and beech trees. Why does it not happen yearly? Well, it takes a lot of resources to We often think of the MOON as a denizen of the night sky, but in fact it is visible just as much produce those high-fat, high-protein nuts and trees can’t afford to expend that much energy during the day as it is at night – it just has too much competition when the sun is up! Visit the every year. Also, when so many nuts are made at once there is a better chance that some will U.S. Naval Observatory’s webpage (aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/RS_OneYear.php) to generate a table survive to sprout into the next generation of trees – those hungry squirrels, mice, chipmunks, for your location, showing moonrise and moonset times for a year, so you’ll know when to look turkeys and deer can’t eat them all! for it. You won’t need a telescope to check out the lunar mountains, plains and craters – a pair of binoculars will do just fine! What’s that buzz? Look around and you might find you’re near a nest of BEES or WASPS. When you see an enormous bird soaring overhead, it’s most likely a BALD EAGLE (Haliaeetus While most species of bees and wasps are solitary, the ones we know best are the social species, leucocephalus) or a TURKEY VULTURE (Cathartes aura). How do you tell the difference? A such as honeybees and paper wasps. Both of these species build colonies in trees: honeybees turkey vulture flies with its wings slightly upraised, so it is shaped like a very broad letter “V” and may fill a hollow tree with honeycomb, while paper wasps often build their elegant nests on an tends to wobble from side to side as it flies. Bald eagles soar with their wings almost perfectly overhanging branch. If you don’t disturb them, they’ll probably leave you alone (unlike horizontal and do not wobble. And, of course, if it’s an adult bald eagle and you get a close look, aggressive species such as yellow jackets!). So, just move quietly along and let them go about

you’ll see the majestic white head and tail feathers! (owl) Kirsten Edlund vulture); (bald eagle, turkey Tracy-Kral Deb CREDITS: PHOTO their ‘buzziness’.

4 5 THE HAPPY WARRIOR After Mashomack Preserve Club founder Dan Daly passed Preservation away, John Sprague approached Cook to become involved with By Georgina Schaeffer the acquisition of the club by the members. (Cook would later serve as president for 6 years). Cook did so, but with the caveat that a separate and independent committee would be able t’s a rainy afternoon when I arrive at Rocky Reef Farm to interview Everett Cook. to negotiate the conservation easement of the club’s 1,650 Still, he comes out to greet me. We sit in the well-appointed and comfortable living acres with the DLC, the largest in the organization’s history. I room. Two dogs stretch out at our feet and dozens of family photos surround us. “I have this passion to preserve land. Our farm in Memphis Cook is tall and slender with a cadence to his speech that alludes to his Southern roots. was cut up after we sold it to our neighbor. That really violated Growing up on his family’s 2,000-acre farm, Cotton Plant, outside of Memphis, my sensibilities,” he says. Tennessee, Cook began hunting, fishing and exploring the woods at an early age. At seven years Cook also spearheaded advocacy work, including preventing old, he began fox hunting with the Longreen Hunt (sometimes with an appearance by William the paving of the now historic Pugsley Hill Road through a well- Faulkner), and continued riding until he left for boarding school at Woodberry Forest. He placed article in The Millbrook Round Table. “We got a temporary matriculated to Dartmouth College, where he became deeply involved with the Dartmouth restraining order as they were unloading equipment,” he says. Outing Club, as well as picking up mountaineering, ice-climbing, rock-climbing and cross-country “The asphalt was already hot.” He aided a legal team to stop skiing. Upon graduating from the Tuck School of Business, he moved to New York in 1977 and a development on Route 83, proving the developer lacked got a job on , working at a fixed income securities firm. He met his first wife, Karen, proper access to the 200-acre property once owned by jazz at a job interview at Goldman Sachs. He notes: “I didn’t get the job, but I got the girl!” legend, Artie Shaw (who memorialized his parties at the The young couple rented a house in Southampton, , but Cook soon felt hemmed-in and longed for more property with the song “Shekomeko Shake”). expansive countryside. At his suggestion, the couple took a weekend trip to Dutchess County during the fall foliage season Rosebrook, where the DLC Fall Luncheon will be held and stayed at the Altamont Inn. “I asked a fellow in the kitchen about all the horses and if there might be a hunt,” he this October, provided the most recent preservation project remembers. Sure enough, the Millbrook Hunt was going out the next morning. Cook introduced himself to the master, for Cook. Roseland Ranch, as it was called, was a 600-acre Feli Thorne, and foot-followed that day. “It was all so inviting and familiar,” he says. “The members could not have been dude ranch on Hunns Lake Road in Stanford. When the owner more gracious.” An invitation to the Hunt Ball followed that November and by December Karen gave Everett a new decided to retire, the entire property (with its approximately 50 rooms, 100 horses, ski-slope, tennis courts, ATVs and hunting kit for Christmas. The couple rented a house in Smithfield in 1979 and bought their first home in Smithfield snowmobiles) went on the market. The property almost became a substance abuse clinic and another developer had Valley shortly after. Cook joined the Millbrook Hunt, where he would ultimately serve as a governor, as well as the plans for a residential buildup in excess of 100 homes. “I stepped in and made it very simple for them and bought it treasurer. “For me, the Millbrook Hunt, with its lore and history, provides the DNA, lifeblood and sinews that create outright with an environmentally clean title,” he says. “I tore everything down, reclaimed the gravel mine and restored a common bond and keep conservation alive in our community,” he says. it back to its natural state. I had intended to live there myself, but then Helen came along,” he says, smiling towards By 1986, the couple had two young children and needed a house farther from the road. Three properties on the kitchen where his wife Helen has started to prepare dinner. Instead, Cook married Helen and moved in with Bangall-Amenia Road were for sale: the Cagney, the Sheldon, and the Van Benschoten Farms. A developer bought her at Rocky Reef Farm and Rosebrook is currently on the market with hunting easements in place and conservation the Cagney Farm and optioned the Van Benschoten and Sheldon properties. “He ran into one problem: a Blanding’s easements approved by the DLC board for a prospective buyer. “This area captures so many of the dimensions of turtle was discovered on the property and that is an endangered species,” Cook recalls. An action was brought against my happy childhood and adolescent years. the developer by the community, which halted the project. The recession hit shortly after, wiping out the minimally- This page, above: Helen and Everett Cook; below, Cook fox hunting with the Millbrook Hunt; Hunting and horses are a big part of it along capitalized owner. Cook joined other conservation-minded individuals to form North Dutchess Properties, a company Opposite: Everett Cook. with farming and the simple splendors of focused on buying and preserving land in the area. They raised the funds to purchase the 600-acre Cagney Farm, while nature,” he concludes. Chauncey Stillman bought the 240-acre Sheldon Farm. Cook bought the 200-acre Van Benschoten Farm, now Box “Don’t ever send a man to get produce,” Turtle Farm, for his family. “I called it Box Turtle to memorialize the good deed that turtle did.” Helen teases, holding up a bunch of limp Parallel to the efforts of North Dutchess Properties, the Dutchess Land Conservancy (DLC) was being formed, carrots, when we walk through the kitchen modeled after the Brandywine Conservancy in Pennsylvania. “I expressed my interest in land preservation to Farnham to the front door. Cook helps me with my Collins, the DLC’s Vice Chairman, who asked me to join their initial meetings at Wethersfield,” he says. Cook went on jacket, walks me out in the rain and opens to serve on the DLC board for 24 years. “North Dutchess operated separately, but with the financial firepower to buy my car door for me with his effortless properties and prevent them from being developed,” he explains. The group made several other successful acquisitions, Southern gentility. Driving away, I think placing the land in conservation with the DLC. Through the work of North Dutchess Properties, the DLC now protects of Character of the Happy Warrior, a poem by 630 acres on the Bangall Amenia Road, 175 acres on Carpenter Hill, 260 acres on Route 83 and another key 20 acres William Wordsworth: on Route 44. “My family has always been deal-oriented. I picked up a lot working for my father when I was young and around the kitchen table,” Cook says. “Also, working with Tom Flexner in real estate taught me a great deal.” North It is the generous spirit, who, when brought Dutchess Properties was eventually dissolved, but the group continued their work on an ad-hoc basis. Among the tasks of real life, hath wrought When 200 acres was gifted to St. Peter’s Church in Lithgow, Cook presented neighbors with “an opportunity to stabilize Upon the plan that pleased his boyish thought: the area.” Tacking together additional tracts of land to place under protection and finding a conservation-minded buyer for Whose high endeavors are an inward light the St. Peter’s land, this neighborhood group preserved a total of 600 acres. When the Millbrook Equestrian Center was That makes the path before him always bright. put up for sale, and the possible site of an intense development, Cook again worked with neighbors and friends to acquire Surely, the rural character of Dutchess various portions and place easements. In the end, 190-acres was protected, with one hundred acres being purchased by a County benefits from Cook’s happy warrior 6 group of more than 20 participants, who placed it under an easement and donated it to the Millbrook School. crusade born out of childhood delights. m 7 FARTHER AFIELD: IRS PROPOSED RULE SEVERELY THREATENED CONSERVATION WORK ACROSS NEW YORK STATE by Becky Thornton

The final regulation was published in the Federal Register on June 11, 2019. Land conservation advocates recently had a scare when the IRS drafted a rule It says that a landowner must subtract any possible state tax credit from the value What you can do: that would impede the ability of landowners to utilize important tax incentives to of their donation before claiming a deduction on their federal taxes. Essentially, We need Congress to act now if a taxpayer receives, or expects to receive, a state or local tax credit in return for and pass legislation to exempt conserve their land. This rule would have impacted 16 states, including New York. a gift, the tax credit constitutes a return benefit to the taxpayer (or quid pro quo), reducing the taxpayer’s charitable contribution deduction. But this final regulation conservation donations from The Dutchess Land Conservancy’s President, Becky Thornton, reports on the does provide some good news for New Yorkers: the State and Local Tax (SALT) proposed rule and final regulation and what you can do today. limitation. It’s important to 1. Taxpayers can decline a state tax credit in favor of the federal deduction. understand that because of While this is not optimal, it does allow the donor a choice to take the full the way the rule is drafted, federal deduction. repealing the SALT limitation 2. There is a minimum exception for tax credits that are less than 15% of the value of the donation. alone will not address the impact 3. For ongoing state tax credits, like New York’s, the regulation provides: “If there to conservation donations. A is no clear maximum credit allowable, taxpayers may reduce their charitable specific exemption is needed to contribution using a good faith estimate of the value of the credit.” solve this problem. Contact your congressmen and ask them to DLC Board Chairman Rebecca Seaman and I will be participating on a support legislation to exempt national committee through the Land Trust Alliance that will provide guidance conservation donations from the to the IRS. We will administer advice on how taxpayers should formally decline SALT limitation that now exists the NYS Conservation Easement Tax Credit in favor of the federal deduction and how to create a good faith estimate of what the state tax credit is worth to in order at the federal level. Make sure to be able to deduct it from their Federal Income Tax return. In addition, this to mention the final regulation committee will work on proposed legislation to fully exempt conservation published in the Federal Register donations from the State and Local Tax (SALT) Federal Rule so that landowners m as of June 11, 2019 (26 CFR many once again benefit from protecting their land. Part 1 [TD 9864] RIN 1545-BO89.) Charles Schumer: schumer. he Dutchess Land Conservancy (DLC), and other similar organizations, use tax incentives to encourage landowners senate.gov/contact/email-chuck T to protect their properties. Two such incentives are the Federal Charitable Income Tax Deduction for Conservation Easement Donations (enhanced and made permanent by Congress in 2015) and our New York Kirsten Gillibrand: gillibrand. State Conservation Easement Tax Credit. This tax credit helps defray the high cost of annual senate.gov/contact/email-me property taxes without impacting local town coffers. It provides a state tax credit of up to m Sean Patrick Maloney, NY 25% of the protected land’s property tax per year, capped at $5,000 per annum. Published in the Federal Register on August 27, 2018, the new rule stated any state 19th District: 202-225-5441; tax credit for a charitable donation is a quid pro quo and must be included and deducted 845-561-1259; seanmaloney. from the donor’s federal tax deduction. The rule attempted to bypass the deductions house.gov/contact for state and local taxes (SALT) for the federal deduction, but also goes quite a bit further and conservation donations would likely be sacrificed. Antonio Delgado, NY 18th It is the DLC’s understanding that because the NYS Conservation Easement Tax District: (202) 225-5614; (845) Credit is a rolling credit, the IRS might have used this rolling credit as the quid pro quo 443-2930; delgado.house.gov/ against the full amount of any charitable deduction (regardless if the donor took advantage contact/email-me of the credit or not) for conservation easement donations. This would virtually eliminate a This page, clockwise from top left: Congress Members for the State of New York; New Yorker’s ability to take a federal income tax deduction for the value of their charitable Thompson Pond as seen from the Stissing Mountain fire tower in Pine Plains, New York (top); Wappingers Creek in Bloomvale, New York (below). Opposite, from top: the DLC’s Becky Thornton conservation gifts. Ultimately, the limitation would unfairly punish conservation in New York 8 and Rebecca Seaman in Washington, D.C.; the Catskills as seen beyond the ; the 9

State solely because our state tax code recognizes the value of conserving land. and Delgado) (Maloney U.S. House of Representatives (Schumer and Gillibrand); Daniel Case (landscapes); U.S. Senate Photography CREDITS: PHOTO Appalachian Trail near Pawling, New York.

Trustees of the Land, the DLC’s most ardent supporters, demonstrate their steadfast commitment to land conservation with annual gifts of $10,000 or more. Anonymous Mr. & Mrs. Ragnar Knutsen Mrs. Felicitas S. Thorne James Augustine Elissa Kramer & Jay Newman Barbara & Donald Tober About the DLC Kathleen Vuillet Augustine Mr. & Mrs. Peter Kraus Mr. Robert S. Trump Founded in 1985, Irene & Jack Banning Christina Lang-Assael Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Urwin the Dutchess Land Mr. & Mrs. Steven Benardete Claire & Chris Mann Andrea van Beuren & Roger Kass Conservancy (DLC) is a Mr. & Mrs. Russell L. Carson Mr. & Mrs. Timothy Mayhew Olivia van Melle Kamp non-profit conservation Mrs. Eliot Clarke Mr. & Mrs. Thomas L. Newberry Mr. & Mrs. Alan B. Vickery organization dedicated Andrea & Guillaume Cuvelier Arnold S. & Madaleine Penner Mr. & Mrs. Robin A. Vince Kathleen & John Dunagan Mrs. George W. Perkins, Jr. Mr. Ralph Weindling to preserving the rural Mr. & Mrs. Wolcott B. Candace & William Platt Fred and Trina Whitridge character, important Dunham, Jr. M. Taylor Pyne Mr. Robert Wilder resources and open lands Kathe & John Dyson Terry & John Regan of Dutchess County, Patricia & Alex Farman-Farmaian Eric W. Roberts New York. We encourage Jodie & Andrew Fink Mr. Jay M. Schwamm FOUNDATIONS & GRANTS sound, well-planned Tom & Deban Flexner J. Kevin Smith & Marc MacLean The Alexander Bodini Foundation growth, balanced with Mrs. David R. Hathaway Ms. Jennifer P. Speers The Buchan Foundation Mr. & Mrs. William R. Hettinger Dorothy W. Sprague Helen R. Buck Foundation the conservation of our Edwina & James Hunt & William J. Benedict, Jr. Katharine Bontecou Charitable Trust important natural resources Stephanie Hunt & Stephen Trevor Mr. & Mrs. John Sprague Millbrook Tribute Garden and working landscapes to Mr. & Mrs. Thomas W. Keesee Sarah & David Stack The Peter & Carmen Lucia ensure healthy and vibrant Ms. Fernanda Kellogg Mr. & Mrs. William W. Stahl, Jr. Buck Foundation communities for the benefit & Mr. Kirk Henckels Mr. & Mrs. Oakleigh Thorne RKJ Foundation Holly Kelly & Andrew Lipsky Mr. Oakleigh B. Thorne Walbridge Fund of all generations.

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Great Horned Owl in Flight. Photo: Peter K Burian