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Where to Bird in Dutchess County, 3Rd Edition
WHERE TO BIRD IN DUTCHESS COUNTY Edited by Stan DeOrsey and Adrienne Popko Third Edition Published by The Ralph T. Waterman Bird Club, Inc. Dutchess County, New York January 1, 2016 Photos by Adrienne Popko Copyright 1990, 2016 by Ralph T. Waterman Bird Club, all rights reserved TABLE OF CONTENTS 6 Andrew Haight Road 35 Pawling Nature Reserve 7 Bowdoin Park 36 Pond Gut 8 Brace Mountain 37 Poughkeepsie Rural Cemetery 9 Buttercup Farm Wildlife S. 38 Reese Sanctuary 10 Cary Arboretum 39 Rockefeller / Pitcher Lane 11 Cascade Mountain Road 40 Saw Kill & South Bay Trails 12 Cruger Island 41 Skunks Misery Road 13 Deep Hollow Road 42 S. Quaker Hill / Tower Hill Rds 14 Depot Hill MUA 43 Stissing Mountain MUA 15 Edward R Murrow Park 44 Stony Kill Farm Env Ed Center 16 Eleanor Roosevelt NHS 45 Sylvan Lake / Clove Road 17 Ferncliff Forest 46 Taconic-Hereford MUA 18 Flint Hill / Huckleberry Roads 47 Taconic State Park 19 Freedom Park 48 Tamarack Lake & Swamp 20 Home of Franklin Roosevelt NHS 49 Tamarack Preserve 21 Hudson Highlands State Park 50 Thompson Pond Preserve 22 Hudson River - North 51 Tivoli Bays WMA 24 Hudson River - South 52 Tower Hill Road lnnisfree26 53 Tracy Road 27 James Baird State Park 54 Tymor Park 28 Lafayetteville MUA 55 Vanderbilt Mansion NHS 29 Lake Oniad 56 Vassar College 30 Locust Grove Historic Estate 57 Vassar College Farm 31 Millbrook School 58 Wappinger Lake 32 Montgomery Place 59 Wassaic MUA 33 Ogden Mills & Norrie State Park 60 Wilcox Park 34 Oriole Mills / Norton / Yantz Rds - 2 - CROSS REFERENCE OF LOCAL NAMES Many areas in Dutchess County are commonly known by names other than those used in this book. -
Ocm35117078-1897.Pdf (6.776Mb)
t~\ yy -•r'. ,-rv :K ft. U JU ■S y T y f Tr>, ^ - T - t v - |i •; -4- X ' ■'■ X ' ;'H; ': :? \ A is - K 1 i - > \X . ,—iLr ml ~-m V«^ 4 — m*- - ■■.- X X — xy /*v /-s s r y t * y y y .C' ^ y yr yy y ^ H' p N w -J^L Ji.iL Jl ,-x O ’ a O x y y f<i$ ^4 >y I PUBLIC DOCUMENT . N o. 50. dUmmionforalllj of PassacJjtmtts. Report or the Commissioners O N T H E Topographical Survey. F oe t h e Y e a r 1 8 9 7 . BOSTON: WRIGHT & POTTER PRINTING CO., STATE PRINTERS, 18 Post Office Squake. 1898. REPORT. Boston, Dec. 31, 1897. To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives, Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The Commissioners on the Topographical Sur vey and Map of the State present the following report of the work executed under their direction during the year 1897. The determination of the town boundary lines has been carried on under the same general plan as in preceding years. The supervision and oversight of the work from 1895 to 1897 Avere undertaken as a labor of love by the chairman of the Board, the late Prof. Henry L. Whiting. It Avas found, OAving to other engagements and advancing years, that he was unable to devote as much time to the survey as the work required, and the last Legislature in creased the appropriation for carrying on the work of the Board, in order that a chief engineer might be employed, who should relieve the chairman of some of his responsible duties. -
Hudson River Watershed 2002 Water Quality Assessment Report
HUDSON RIVER WATERSHED 2002 WATER QUALITY ASSESSMENT REPORT COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS ROBERT W. GOLLEDGE, JR, SECRETARY MASSACHUSETTS DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ARLEEN O’DONNELL, ACTING COMMISSIONER BUREAU OF RESOURCE PROTECTION GLENN HAAS, ACTING ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER DIVISION OF WATERSHED MANAGEMENT GLENN HAAS, DIRECTOR NOTICE OF AVAILABILITY LIMITED COPIES OF THIS REPORT ARE AVAILABLE AT NO COST BY WRITTEN REQUEST TO: MASSACHUSETTS DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION DIVISION OF WATERSHED MANAGEMENT 627 MAIN STREET WORCESTER, MA 01608 This report is also available from the MassDEP’s home page on the World Wide Web at: http://www.mass.gov/dep/water/resources/wqassess.htm Furthermore, at the time of first printing, eight copies of each report published by this office are submitted to the State Library at the State House in Boston; these copies are subsequently distributed as follows: · On shelf; retained at the State Library (two copies); · Microfilmed retained at the State Library; · Delivered to the Boston Public Library at Copley Square; · Delivered to the Worcester Public Library; · Delivered to the Springfield Public Library; · Delivered to the University Library at UMass, Amherst; · Delivered to the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. Moreover, this wide circulation is augmented by inter-library loans from the above-listed libraries. For example a resident in Marlborough can apply at their local library for loan of any MassDEP/DWM report from the Worcester Public Library. A complete list of reports published since 1963 is updated annually and printed in July. This report, entitled, “Publications of the Massachusetts Division of Watershed Management – Watershed Planning Program, 1963-(current year)”, is also available by writing to the Division of Watershed Management (DWM) in Worcester. -
Periodic Report to the Massachusetts Department of Conservation And
Periodic Report to the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation Submitted by Friends of Mohawk Trail State Forest Robert T. Leverett Gary A. Beluzo And Anthony W. D’Amato May 21, 2006 Friends of Mohawk Trail State Forest 52 Fairfield Avenue Holyoke, MA 01040 (413) 538-8631 [email protected] 1 Table of Contents Topic Page General Introduction 3 SECTION 1: Old Growth Inventory and Mapping 4 SECTION 2: Forest Reserve 8 SECTION 3: Update on Rucker Indexing Analysis 11 and Exemplary Forest Documentation SECTION 4: White Pine Volume Modeling, 31 Individual Profiles, and White pine Tree Dimensions Index (TDI) Lists SECTION 5: White Pine Stand Tagging, Inventorying, 47 and Growth Analysis SECTION 6: Activities and History of FMTSF 49 SECTION 7: Dendromorphometry 53 SECTION 8: Summary of Exemplary Trees and 56 Forest Features in MTSF and MSF Appendix I: Maps – Recommended Forest Reserves 60 2 General Introduction This report is presented to the Chief Forester for Massachusetts, James DiMaio; the Region 5 Supervisor, Robert Mellace; and the management forester within Region 5, Thomas Byron. Friends of Mohawk Trail State Forest (FMTSF) will also present copies of this report to the Eastern Native Tree Society (ENTS), Harvard Forest for inclusion in their archives, the Massachusetts Audubon Society, Board members of the FMTSF, and Dr. Lee Frelich, Director for the Center of Hardwood Ecology of the University of Minnesota. ENTS, Mass Audubon, Dr. David Orwig of Harvard Forest, and Dr. Lee Frelich have been important contributors to the research described in this report. On February 5, 2004, “Report on Forest Research at Mohawk Trail State Forest” was submitted to the then Department of Environmental Management (DEM) through William Rivers. -
Mount Everett State Reservation Summit Resource Management Plan
Mount Everet t State Reservation S ummit Res ource Management Plan March, 2006 Massac husetts Department of Conservation and Recreation Division of Planning and Engineering R esource Management Planning Program Mount Everett State Reservation Summit Resource Management Plan Adopted by the Stewardship Council Department of Conservation and Recreation March 2, 2006 Department of Conservation and Recreation Planning Team Paul Adams State Parks and Recreation, Assistant Western Region Director Rebecca Barnes State Parks and Recreation, Western Region Trails Coordinator Jack Lash DCR Ecologist, Office of Natural Resources Leslie Luchonok Director, Resource Management Planning Program Andrea Lukens Director, Office of Natural Resources Robert Mellace State Parks and Recreation, Western Region Director Ken Neary Western Region Engineer Conrad Ohman South Berkshire District Management Forester Richard Thibedeau Project Manager Consultant services provided by Epsilon Associates, Inc. 3 Clock Tower Place, Suite 250 Maynard, MA 01754 Stephen Barrett Senior Scientist Steven Howe Planner and GIS Specialist C O M M O N W E A L T H O F M A S S A C H U S E T T S đ E X E C U T I V E O F F I C E O F E N V I R O N M E N T A L A F F A I R S Department of Conservation and Recreation Mitt Romney Stephen R. Pritchard, Secretary 251 Causeway Street Governor Executive Office of Environmental Affairs Boston, MA 02114 Kerry Healey Stephen H. Burrington, Commissioner www.mass.gov/dcr Lt. Governor Department of Conservation & Recreation TABLE OF CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 1 I. -
Adirondack Mountain Club — Schenectady Chapter Dedicated to the Preservation, Protection and Enjoyment of the Forest Preserve
The Lookout April - May 2020 Adirondack Mountain Club — Schenectady Chapter Dedicated to the preservation, protection and enjoyment of the Forest Preserve http://www.adk-schenectady.org Adirondack Mountain Club — Schenectady Chapter Board ELECTED OFFICERS CHAIR: LOOKOUT EDITOR: Dustin Wright Mal Provost 603-953-8782 518-399-1565 [email protected] [email protected] VICE-CHAIR: MEMBERSHIP: Stan Stoklosa Jeff Newsome 518-383-3066 [email protected] [email protected] NORTHVILLE PLACID TRAIL: SECRETARY: Mary MacDonald Heather Ipsen 518-371-1293 [email protected] [email protected] TREASURER: OUTINGS: Colin Thomas Roy Keats [email protected] 518-370-0399 [email protected] DIRECTOR: Jason Waters PRINTING/MAILING: [email protected] Mary MacDonald 518-371-1293 PROJECT COORDINATORS: [email protected] Jacque McGinn 518-438-0557 PUBLICITY: [email protected] Mary Zawacki 914-373-8733 Sally Dewes [email protected] 518-346-1761 [email protected] TRAILS: Norm Kuchar VACANT 518-399-6243 [email protected] [email protected] APPOINTED MEMBERS WEB MASTER: Mary Zawacki CONSERVATION: 914-373-8733 Mal Provost [email protected] 518-399-1565 [email protected] WHITEWATER: Ralph Pascale PROGRAMS: 518-235-1614 [email protected] Sally Dewes 518-346-1761 [email protected] YOUNG MEMBERS GROUP: Dustin Wright 603-953-8782 [email protected] There is a lot of history in a canoe paddle that Norm Kuchar presented to Neil On the cover Woodworth at the recent Conservation Committee meeting. See Page 3. Photo by Sally Dewes Inside this issue: April - May 2020 Pandemic Interruptions 2 Woodworth Honored 3 Whitewater Season 4-5 Outings 6-7 The Lookout Ididaride 8 Trip Tales 10-12 The Newsletter for the Schenectady Chapter of the Adirondack Mountain Club Advocates Press Legislators On Rangers Budget Along the crowded hallways of the Legislative Office Building and Capitol Feb. -
Rensselaer Land Trust
Rensselaer Land Trust Land Conservation Plan: 2018 to 2030 June 2018 Prepared by: John Winter and Jim Tolisano, Innovations in Conservation, LLC Rick Barnes Michael Batcher Nick Conrad The preparation of this Land Conservation Plan has been made possible by grants and contributions from: • New York State Environmental Protection Fund through: o The NYS Conservation Partnership Program led by the Land Trust Alliance and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC), and o The Hudson River Estuary Program of NYSDEC, • The Hudson River Valley Greenway, • Royal Bank of Canada, • The Louis and Hortense Rubin Foundation, and • Volunteers from the Rensselaer Land Trust who provided in-kind matching support. Rensselaer Land Trust Conservation Plan DRAFT 6-1-18 2 Table of Contents Executive Summary Page 6 1. Introduction 8 Purpose of the Land Conservation Plan 8 The Case for Land Conservation Planning 9 2. Preparing the Plan 10 3. Community Inputs 13 4. Existing Conditions 17 Water Resources 17 Ecological Resources 25 Responding to Changes in Climate (Climate Resiliency) 31 Agricultural Resources 33 Scenic Resources 36 5. Conservation Priority Areas 38 Water Resource Priorities 38 Ecological Resource Priorities 42 Climate Resiliency for Biodiversity Resource Priorities 46 Agricultural Resource Priorities 51 Scenic Resource Priorities 55 Composite Resource Priorities 59 Maximum Score for Priority Areas 62 6. Land Conservation Tools 64 7. Conservation Partners 68 Rensselaer Land Trust Conservation Plan DRAFT 6-1-18 3 8. Work Plan 75 9. Acknowledgements 76 10. References 78 Appendices 80 Appendix A - Community Selected Conservation Areas by Municipality 80 Appendix B - Priority Scoring Methodology 85 Appendix C - Ecological Feature Descriptions Used for Analysis 91 Appendix D: A Brief History of Rensselaer County 100 Appendix E: Rensselaer County and Its Regional and Local Setting 102 Appendices F through U: Municipality Conservation Priorities 104 Figures 1. -
Birds of Mount Greylock Mount Greylock State Reservation INFORMATION GUIDE & SIGHTING LIST
Birds of Mount Greylock Mount Greylock State Reservation INFORMATION GUIDE & SIGHTING LIST Birds of Mount Greylock is a two-part document. Part 1 is a basic overview of the variety of bird species found in and around Mount Greylock, where you might encounter them in the Reservation. Part 2 is a birding checklist for your records. Part 1 Managed by the Department of Conservation & Recreation (DCR), Mount Greylock State Reservation covers over 12,500 acres of upland habitat. The summit at 3,491 feet above sea level is the highest point in Massachusetts and supports the only sub-alpine ecosystem in the state; one of the southernmost extensions of the boreal or spruce-fir forest, normally associated with Canada. Why go birding? If you want a challenge, camaraderie, fun, passion, beauty, insight, travel, and discovery, go birding. All this aside, humans have certainly altered face of the landscape, sometimes negatively impacting bird habitats. Bird populations, over time, have responded by shifting to more suitable habitats or disappearing altogether from certain areas. Still other species have been either hunted to extinction, their distinctive habitats completely destroyed, affected by pesticides or pollution, or even displaced by competing bird species. There is a widely held belief within the bird watching community is that an interest in birds is often the first step toward building a sound conservation ethic. Birds are sensitive indicators of the health of the environment. It is likely that a popular widespread commitment to their well- being will lead to a greater concern for the quality of the environment on which humans and birds are mutually dependent. -
Page 1 L O N G I S L a N D M O U N T a I N E E R Newsletter of The
LONG ISLAND MOUNTAINEER Newsletter Of The Adirondack Mountain Club,Long Island Chapter SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER i9ss Linda Edwards Editor's Desk THE NOMINATIONS ARE IN The next two months provide the best outing conditions of the year! The Nominating Committee is pre There are no bugs, the weather is senting the following slate of can mild and nature dons its fall didates for the upcoming year. The colors. names will be placed in nomination The Outings Committee has made during the September meeting and an extra special effort to present voted on during the November meet a great array of offerings ( see ing. The Paul Eanzillotta, Ray •• pages 6 and 7). Get out as often as .(eardon and Al Scholl served on the you can. It's the years best season: Nominating Committee. As you are reading this, I'm probably just getting back from my President-— Allen Scholl trip to Colorado and Arizona. I Vice-President - Jim Pelzer thought it was well deserved as I Treasurer - Tom V/all finished the ADK 46ers on July 16 Governor - Herb Coles. on Panther Mt. in the Santanonis. Board of Directors - Larry Braun I'd like to thank my enthusiastic - Bob Young sherpa, Dave, for helping me cele - Stan Weiss brate. I'd also like to thank every one who hiked all those peaks with As of this writing, the Secre me, as I couldn't have done it with tary position has not been filled. out you. The Nominating Committee is still I'd like to encourage those who searching for one. -
ADK July-Sept
JULY-SEPTEMBER 2006 No. 0604 chepontuc — “Hard place to cross”, Iroquois reference to Glens Falls hepontuc ootnotes C THE NEWSLETTER OF THE GLENS FALLS-SARATOGAF CHAPTER OF THE ADIRONDACK MOUNTAIN CLUB Annual Dinner set for Oct. 20 ark your calendars! Please join your fellow ADKers Gathering will feature Carl Heilman on Friday, October 20, for M our annual Chapter Dinner. presenting his award-winning Weʼre moving to larger surroundings — the Queensbury Hotel in Glens Falls — to multimedia slide show, “Wild Visions” make room for everybody who wants to attend. Once again we have a fabulous program: home. He has worked in the region as an Adirondack Heritage award from the We are honored to welcome the Obi Wan a carpenter and contractor, and over the Association for the Protection of the of Adirondack Photography: Carl Heilman years also became well-known for his Adirondacks for his work with photog- who will present his award-winning mul- traditionally hand-crafted snowshoes and raphy. timedia slide Adirondack presentation his snowshoeing expertise. Each winter, as a NYS licensed guide, “Wild Visions.” Itʼs an honor to welcome Carl has been photographing the wil- he leads backcountry snowshoeing work- Carl as heʼs been busy the last few years derness landscape since 1975, working shops for the Adirondack Mountain Club publishing books, teaching master work- to capture on film both the grandeur of at the Adirondak Loj near Lake Placid, shops in photography and producing won- these special places, and the emotional and for the Appalachian Mountain Club derful photography. and spiritual connection he has felt as at Pinkham Notch, N.H. -
America the Beautiful Part 1
America the Beautiful Part 1 Charlene Notgrass 1 America the Beautiful Part 1 by Charlene Notgrass ISBN 978-1-60999-141-8 Copyright © 2020 Notgrass Company. All rights reserved. All product names, brands, and other trademarks mentioned or pictured in this book are used for educational purposes only. No association with or endorsement by the owners of the trademarks is intended. Each trademark remains the property of its respective owner. Unless otherwise noted, scripture quotations are taken from the New American Standard Bible®, Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by the Lockman Foundation. All rights reserved. Used by permission. Cover Images: Jordan Pond, Maine, background by Dave Ashworth / Shutterstock.com; Deer’s Hair by George Catlin / Smithsonian American Art Museum; Young Girl and Dog by Percy Moran / Smithsonian American Art Museum; William Lee from George Washington and William Lee by John Trumbull / Metropolitan Museum of Art. Back Cover Author Photo: Professional Portraits by Kevin Wimpy The image on the preceding page is of Denali in Denali National Park. No part of this material may be reproduced without permission from the publisher. You may not photocopy this book. If you need additional copies for children in your family or for students in your group or classroom, contact Notgrass History to order them. Printed in the United States of America. Notgrass History 975 Roaring River Rd. Gainesboro, TN 38562 1-800-211-8793 notgrass.com Thunder Rocks, Allegany State Park, New York Dear Student When God created the land we call America, He sculpted and painted a masterpiece. -
The Cloudsplitter Is Published Quarterly by the Albany Chapter of the Adirondack Mountain Club and Is Distributed to the Membership
The Cloudsplitter Vol. 74 No. 3 July-September 2011 published by the ALBANY CHAPTER of the ADIRONDACK MOUNTAIN CLUB The Cloudsplitter is published quarterly by the Albany Chapter of the Adirondack Mountain Club and is distributed to the membership. All issues (January, April, July, and October) feature activities schedules, trip reports, and other articles of interest to the outdoor enthusiast. All outings should now be entered on the web site www.adk-albany.org . If this is not possible, send them to Virginia Traver at [email protected] Echoes should be entered on the web site www.adk-albany.org with your login information. The Albany Chapter may be Please send your address and For Club orders & membership For Cloudsplitter related issues, reached at: phone number changes to: call (800) 395-8080 or contact the Editor at: Albany Chapter ADK Adirondack Mountain Club e-mail: [email protected] The Cloudsplitter Empire State Plaza 814 Goggins Road home page: www.adk.org c/o Karen Ross P.O. Box 2116 Lake George, NY 12845-4117 7 Bird Road Albany, NY 12220 phone: (518) 668-4447 Lebanon Spgs., NY 12125 home page: fax: (518) 668-3746 e-mail: [email protected] www.adk-albany.org Submission deadline for the next issue of The Cloudsplitter is August 15, 2011 and will be for the months of October, November, and December. Many thanks to Gail Carr for her sketch of a summer pond scene. September 7 (1st Wednesdays) Business Meeting of Chapter Officers and Committees 6:00 p.m. at Little‘s Lake in Menands Chapter members are encouraged to attend -