A Publicaon of the Natural Resources Protecve Associaon Coalion Against Water Disposal of Contaminated Sediments Post Office Box 050328  , NY 10305 Established in 1977 In Memory of Edward “Kerry” Sullivan SPRING 2020 Executive Director EAST SHORE SEAWALL HIKE plastic seawall was partially burned by Ida Sanoff By Jim Scarcella vandals around year 2000, the fire was visible CAWD for miles. Director In late January, NRPA and Protectors of Secretary Pine Oak Woods sponsored an East Shore There are fire hydrants nearby, hopefully they Tony Rose (Staten Island) Seawall Hike, from are now operational. Staten Island Sport Divers Oakwood Beach to Miller Field. The walkers were not deterred by some threatening Cedar Grove was once home to a beach Director weather, including a serious north wind and cabin colony, about 80 rental bungalows, Treasurer occasional showers. We met on Mill Road paved roads, a community hall for parties and Membership Newsletter and Fox Beach Avenue near Dugale Street a flagpole. The road provided shelter from the Richard Chan and Riga Avenue (almost directly across north wind and we saw mammal burrows at NRPA from the Michael Ollis VFW Post). Prior to the base of the berm. We saw the “pods” for the walk, I saw a homeless encampment on administrative services and bathrooms at President Riga Avenue near Dugale, complete with Cedar Grove Beach, and then walked up to Jim Scarcella traffic cones and “Do Not Enter” signage. Ebbits Street, New Dorp Beach. NRPA Before the hike, the participants observed a NY/NJ Baykeeper moment of silence for the people who This area is undergoing a street widening, Vice President perished when Hurricane Sandy hit on water main and sewer upgrade. The Manresa Charles Perry October 29, 2012. Council building was once a general store, Protectors of Pine Oak serving generations of beach families. New Woods We gathered at the bottom of the Tarlton Dorp Beach also had tragedy during Assistant Treasurer Avenue cul de sac and Chuck Perry Hurricane Sandy. John Malizia showed us the Army Corps of Engineers S. I. Yacht Club, “Constructed Seawall” sectional sketch Our Lady of Lourdes church is still standing, S. I. Tuna Club, FCA showing huge boulders and sheeted, and at one time had a hospital closer to the interlocking steel. Also, there was a plan beach, complete with a helicopter landing Assistant Secretary view of the seven drainage areas, from the pad. We continued walking north to Kivlehan Robert Carrano Oakwood Beach Water Treatment Control Park, and the park was unoccupied due to NRPA Plant (WTCP) up to . The inclement weather. TRUSTEES WTCP is the single most important piece of infrastructure on the east shore and will At New Dorp Lane, we observed the staging Dr. Martin Schreibman have a seawall, levee and gates. area for the water main project (part of which College AREAC was an artificial turf soccer field) and saw the Dr. John T. Tanacredi There were Herring Gulls and a roaring sea old aircraft hangers of Miller Field. It’s not Molloy College when we jumped up onto the berm to walk clear if the hangers will survive construction of Cindy Zipf north up to Kissam Avenue. This area was the 17 foot height, 22 foot wide seawall. Clean Ocean Action hit hard by Sandy, and the Nor’easter of 1992. The temporary berm at New Dorp beach has been battered, but still provides a measure of The mostly phragmites wetland now has a protection for the homes 2000 feet away. 200’ wide “firebreak” where the phragmite is cut, to hopefully prevent fire from spreading. The walk back was relatively uneventful, the We continued to the south portion of Cedar wind and showers were at our back. Grove Beach, where a previous reinforced Returning to Tarlton, we performed a little

In this Edion Page 1 EAST SHORE SEAWALL HIKE Page 5 FOREST PRESERVATION ON STATEN Page 2 NEW YORK GOING PLASTIC FREE ISLAND Page 2 FIGHTING FOREIGN INVADERS Page 6 BOOKS ABOUT STATEN ISLAND (PART 2) Page 3 CREATURE FEATURE Page 7 FIRE AND TIDE: HUGUENOT BEACH IN Page 3 REUSABLE GROCERY BAGS: SAFETY FIRST! ARTIFACTS AND ART (TERRA MARINE INN) Page 4 NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH - Page 7 NRPA ON THE AIR REUSABLE GROCERY BAGS Page 8 SCHEDULE OF EVENTS Page 2 NATURAL RESOURCES PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION SPRING 2020 clean up and vowed to work together death. and a cordless Sawzall to do battle. to protect our shores, beach, and The best way to eliminate the plants wetlands. This bill is not a cure all. It is only the is dig them out and Tony dug a few start on the journey to reduce our out with a six-foot, iron breaker bar, Special thanks to Chuck, the use of plastics. but had to take a break after the Abenante family, Howie, Karen, exhausting work. Tom, Mike and all those who joined Plastic bags won’t disappear entirely, us for the walk. The East Shore just at the checkout counter. Seawall will physically change our Customers can still put their green beaches forever. beans or bulk almonds in plastic bags, and meat and deli items can Please join NRPA and help us with still be wrapped in plastic. the clean up here on March 28. The 5-cent fee for paper bags is not NEW YORK GOING PLASTIC a lot, but there is evidence across FREE the country that the 5 cents over time By Chuck Perry will incentivize people to bring reusable bags. The use of paper New York going plastic free... bags is not a sustainable solution. HARDLY! New York is joining California and Hawaii with a NYC Sanitation is giving out bags Bill Morris, who organized the statewide ban on plastic bags. The made with 90% recycled material. initiative, agreed that digging out the three states combined account for They fold up into a small pouch and rootstock is the most effective over 60 million Americans, roughly have two strong handles. I have approach, but cutting down the 18% of the United States. been using them for over a year with plants will buy him time. no visible sign of wear. “New growth will take two to three If we all do our part, we can begin to years before it can propagate, so we reduce the amount of plastic and can limit the spread of the plants other trash we produce. until we can do the definitive work,” Bill, a one-man army has been FIGHTING FOREIGN advocating for Mariners Marsh for INVADERS decades. By Tony Rose A former industrial area, Mariners Marsh has been vacant and locked It wasn’t too cold for a November up for years. A steel mill and then day after Thanksgiving, but the brave the Milliken ship-building concern band of warriors were layered and occupied the site from the mid- prepared for anything. Armed with nineteenth century until the period It is estimated that New York uses sharp implements, they were ready after World War I. The site fell into 23 billion plastic bags every year to wage war against foreign foes disuse and returned to nature with most of these plastic bags who were seeking to displace the through the years. The buildings ending up in landfills and around the native population. have crumbled and nature has city and waterways. The plastic bag returned, low-lying areas have ban will not only reduce plastic bags No, this wasn’t some crazed political ponded as well as some of the old in landfills and waterways, but it will rally; these environmentalists were foundations. Corners of crumbled also eliminate an estimated 12 headed to Mariners Marsh Park to buildings peek through the woods. million barrels of oil used to make clear invasive plants that threatened plastic bags for New York. to choke out less hardy plants that The Parks Department acquired the are native to the area. Jack, property in 1997. It was an Plastic bags never fully break down Adriano, Ken and Tony brought unimproved natural area. Bill and and often clog storm drains and hedge clippers, loppers, camp saws some friends improved paths that screens in sewage treatment plants. wound through the area, connecting Plastics bags that make their way to open meadows and ponds. He got the ocean have been mistaken for scout troops and some Jelly Fish by sea turtles who eat environmental groups to run wood them. They die of starvation. Studies chips to maintain the pathways. on dead sea turtles have found that Some of the paths were there more than 50 % have plastic in their because the pipes that had supplied stomachs. Similarly, seabirds, fish gas to the buildings had to be kept and other marine animals mistake clear of bushes and saplings, so they plastic bags for food or become remain open today. The Staten entangled in plastic bags leading to Island Sport Divers investigated exhaustion, starvation and eventual some of the ponds years ago and SPRING 2020 NATURAL RESOURCES PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION Page 3 the local deer may have left them. A The egg cases can become resident fox has been spotted along dislodged during storms and the with rabbits. eggs dehydrate if left up on the beach. Trees have risen tall and majestic. One was seen to be growing right REUSABLE GROCERY through a discarded tire. Until we BAGS: SAFETY FIRST! get around to cutting the tire, By Ida Sanoff perhaps we’ll plant some daffodils in it. Banning single use plastic bags is a good thing. We’ve all seen them Parks Department bulldozers and sailing through the air on windy dump trucks hauled gravel from one days. We’ve all seen tree limbs removed tires and bicycles. site to another. Hope filled the chill bedecked with shreds of variously air. colored plastic bags. And not a Parks had planned to use some month goes by when we don’t read open space near Richmond Terrace All in all, despite one horrendous about a whale or sea turtle that died for badly needed ball fields and to case of poison ivy, it was a positive, because its stomach was filled with clean up the trails. Trial soil borings productive day. plastic. revealed (surprise, surprise) that much of the ground was CREATURE FEATURE And let’s not forget about our winged contaminated by industrial wastes, By Jim Scarcella friends. Last summer, as I was walking off the beach, I saw a bird Waste means waits. With no money This issue’s creature feature is the trying to take flight with the handle of for soil remediation, the park has sat Atlantic (Knobbed) Whelk, a large a plastic bag wrapped around its leg. idle for almost 20 years. The predatory snail (mollusk). I tried to catch it, but I couldn’t. Two remediation is now done and Parks cops who were passing by tried to is moving towards preparing the area get it too, but they were also for use. A planning organization unsuccessful. Luckily for us – and hired by the city has begun a the bird – a group of young boys visioning process to begin came by and they successfully organization of the improved corralled the bird and unwrapped the Mariners Marsh Park. Which brings bag from its leg. I took the bag with us back to the bushes. Nature is me and made sure that it was amazingly resilient and asks only to trashed where it would no longer be be left alone. Bit by bit, the invasive a danger to wildlife. are cut back. The trees are thick and varied. They grow right up to, Of course, there have been various and in some cases, right into the studies about both the environmental ponds. Wildlife abounds. Years impacts of reusable and disposable ago, before they were seen in bags. But not much has been said Richmondtown, beavers crossed the The Knobbed Whelk lives in water about health issues related to our Arthur Kill and took up residence depths of anywhere from two meters reusable bags. here. Their presence was evidenced to 48 feet. It eats oysters and clams, by the characteristic pencil point and can be up to 12 inches in One that I found quite interesting stumps of the trees they acquired to length, and up to four inches across. was done in 2014 by Clemson turn streams to ponds. Birds take The whelk is capable of propelling University in South Carolina. You advantage of any shrubs and berries itself around and its scientific name can find the study here: https:// is Busycon carica. tigerprints.clemson.edu/cgi/ viewcontent.cgi? The whelk has 6 spirals and is article=1006&context=cudp_environ dextral, meaning if you are looking at ment one, the opening (aperture) is on the The study looked at shopping habits, right side. The opening can be the process of manufacturing paper closed by its operculum. and plastic bags, disposal issues and a whole bunch of other things. I The whelk anchors its egg casing never realized that the disposable (also known as “Mermaids vs. reusable issue was so complex. Necklace”) in the substrate, so that it When we use bags made of recycled will not wash ashore. Each egg paper, who ever thought about the capsule contains approximately 90 “de-inking process” that removed the eggs and there can be as many as ink from all of the paper that was 30 capsules. The eggs are preyed recycled to make those bags? The upon by horseshoe crabs and fish study also looked at the use of fossil (primarily drums). fuels to make the bags, chemical

(continued next page) Page 4 NATURAL RESOURCES PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION SPRING 2020 composition, etc. and came to the separate. vegetables, and another for conclusion that durable, reusable ready-to-eat foods. It's also a bags were a better choice. Guidelines for the safe use of good idea to keep these foods reusable bags are attached. Thanks separated in your shopping cart, But then it went further. The study for using them and thanks for on the checkout lane's conveyor looked at whether or not reusable keeping them clean! belt, and at home. This will help bags could transmit infectious prevent germs from spreading. microbes. And this is something that  Remember: cold food needs to we haven’t heard anything about. be refrigerated within two hours When you talk about disease of leaving the store or market. transmission, inanimate objects are When temperatures outside are collectively called “fomites”. The above 90 degrees, cold food classic example of a fomite is the should be refrigerated within one faucet on a sink. You turn on the NEW YORK STATE hour. faucet with your dirty hands, wash DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH - your hands well with soap and water, Always put raw meats into a then put your clean hands back onto REUSABLE GROCERY disposable plastic bag before the faucet to turn it off. You have just BAGS: A SMART CHOICE putting them in a reusable bag. re-contaminated your hands by BUT PLAY IT SAFE  A disposable plastic bag will touching the dirty faucet. In health help contain any juices that drip care institutions, faucets have lever  Reusable Grocery Bags: A off raw meat, fish and poultry style handles that you can turn off Smart Choice But Play It Safe is packages. These juices will then with your wrist or elbow. Otherwise, also available as a PDF (PDF, be unable to touch other foods a paper towel can be used to turn off 366KB) and contaminate them. the faucet. Another example of a Reusable grocery bags have Disposable plastic bags are fomite is the doorknob on public become very popular as people seek usually available in your store's restrooms. How many times have to reduce waste and protect the raw meat, fish, poultry or you seen someone use the restroom environment. Cloth and plastic-lined produce areas. and leave without washing their bags do help, but are they safe?  Immediately after use, throw hands? Well, if they have some sort away disposable plastic bags of stomach bug it’s now on that Reusable grocery bags are a smart used for raw meat, fish or handle and if you touch your food choice but there could be some risk. poultry. Never reuse bags that without washing your hands, you’ll When you carry food or other items contained raw meat, fish or probably get sick too. in these bags, they may leave poultry. behind germs like E. coli or OK, so now comes the part that no Salmonella. If the bags are not Wash reusable grocery bags one has talked about: Keeping your properly washed and dried before often. reusable bags CLEAN. they are used again, these germs  Cloth reusable bags should be remain and can make you sick. washed in a washing machine The Clemson study notes that in using laundry detergent. They 2012, the U.S. Dept. of Health Keep yourself and your family safe. should also be dried in the dryer recommended frequent washing of Follow these easy steps to reduce or air-dried. reusable cloth bags. It referred to a the spread of germs:  Plastic-lined reusable bags study that was done by three Separate meat, fish or poultry; independent labs in Toronto that should be scrubbed using hot fresh produce, and ready-to-eat water and soap, then air-dried. found that practically no one ever foods.  Before storing, be sure both washes their reusable cloth bags or  Use separate bags. Dedicate cleans reusable plastic bags. It also cloth and plastic-lined reusable one bag for meat, fish or poultry; bags are completely dry. quoted a study where a stomach bug another for fresh fruits and that infected nine members of a Washington, DC soccer team was Reusable Bags are best stored in traced to a contaminated reusable a cool, dry place when possible. bag.  Reusable bags are best stored in a cool, dry place when So how can you be environmentally possible. Make sure your bags responsible and also maintain good are clean to inhibit bacteria health? The New York State Dept. of growth. Health has published some guidelines, which you can find here: Do not use reusable grocery bags https://www.health.ny.gov/ for other purposes. publications/2827/  Bags used for groceries should These are common sense be used only for food. Don't approaches, such as placing raw carry items such as baby bottles, poultry, fish and meat in a separate toys, gym clothes, and other disposable bag and keeping produce items in the same reusable bags SPRING 2020 NATURAL RESOURCES PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION Page 5 that you take to the grocery our nature walks and trail repair store. These simple steps will outings and clean-ups. It is help reduce the spread of germs composed of herbaceous plants, to keep you and your family woody plants and young trees safe. (defined as less than 5 feet).

FOREST PRESERVATION The mid-story layer is shrubs and ON STATEN ISLAND young trees that reach more than By Tony Rose five feet above the floor of the forest. The overstory, or canopy is the tent- Participants streamed in from all like structure of the treetops. corners of the College of Staten Island campus. Parking was tight Trees breathe, they sweat. Their and onlookers jammed even the presence enriches surrounding balconies at the CSI Center for areas, all the more so in our urban Performing Arts. environment. In addition to the shade they provide, trees transpire. A symposium aimed at illuminating deer have swum across from New That is, they release water vapor threats to Staten Island’s woods and Jersey and have swelled to numbers while consuming carbon dioxide and wetlands was sponsored by the that threaten to possibly eliminate releasing oxygen. As this water Protectors of the Pine Oak Woods, wooded areas in the borough vapor evaporates, the change of the NYS Department of completely. state cools the air in the vicinity of Environmental Conservation, the the forest. This is particularly NYC Parks Department as well as a A natural succession in wooded important here as the city is number of science departments from areas moves growth from composed of buildings and paved the college. Ed Burke led off the grasslands, to shrubs to woods if the areas that absorb sunlight and give event with a plea for people to begin conditions are right. The threat off heat throughout the night. These a difficult discussion on how to posed by deer is immense. The heat islands make life uncomfortable preserve the legacy of open, wooded major problem is that in crossing the and contribute to the warming of the areas left to us by preceding Arthur Kill, deer have entered the planet. generations. Promised Land. There is abundant greenery, and more importantly, no Additionally, tree roots capture The list of threats is a familiar one; predators. Staten Island has no rainwater and prevent its release population growth and development wolves, no bears, and no bobcats. into sewer systems overwhelmed by on the island, pollution and climate The herds reproduce at will. severe storms and flooding events. change are all recognized villains. Woods and wetlands filter pollutants Added to the list of threats this night The ability of the land to cope with and the bacteria living among the was the growing presence of deer on browsers and regenerate is called its roots are known to break down the Island. carrying capacity. Recent population petroleum and fecal contaminants counts indicate the deer in the that would otherwise flow into our borough may have reached ten harbor waters. times the carrying capacity of our home island.

How this pressure manifests itself is in the lack of new growth in the many and diverse natural areas of the island. In places as separate as Clay Pit Ponds Park, Latourette and the Graniteville Swamp, deer have denuded the land.

Forests be they local deciduous Importantly, forests provide habitat woods like on Staten Island, as well for birds, resident and migratory, and as rainforests in the Amazon are wildlife that make our local composed of four components. Leaf ecosystem balanced and richer. Islanders have a long history of litter lies on the ground. It will decay passing over the Goethals and and enrich the soil, returning The forests should be self- Outerbridge crossings on their way nutrients from dead leaves back into sustaining. As old growth dies, it to New Jersey and Pennsylvania. the soil to be utilized by the nearby makes way for juvenile trees to rise More recent migrants are leaving trees. The understory is the brushy up and make their way to the New York to settle in the hills of area we pass through while taking canopy. North Carolina. Visit us at www.nrpa.com This is where the deer intersect to Newcomers to the island, white-tail Like us on Facebook break nature’s long-established Page 6 NATURAL RESOURCES PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION SPRING 2020 years old, it will be a long time before narratives, hiking trails sketches and the efficacy of this initiative can be milestones relating to Staten Island determined. Also, a few males can parks and natural areas. Prominently service large numbers of females, so featured are northwest Staten Island some question the effectiveness of areas, including Mariner’s Marsh, this project. the Greenbelt, and our shore treasures of Ft. Wadsworth, Great Up until now, many city and state Kills Park, Mount Loretto, and agencies have resisted a cull of the . The herd. Hunting on Staten Island Bluebelt is also detailed. A great presents as many issues as the deer must-have book. themselves. Some voices on SILive have called for all the thousands of deer on Staten Island to be captured and transported to a sanctuary. Not only would it be difficult to find a home for a number this large, the cycle. practicality of capturing deer exceeds that of trapping turkeys and Deer and other ungulates are part of that project has languished for years. the natural order. Browsers prune the trees; making them reach up Hunting has been seen here, further and faster in most instances. already. Chopped off heads and Here, because we have so exceeded hooves found in some island wooded the land’s carrying capacity, herds of areas demonstrate this. An upstate deer clear cut new growth like a hunter was caught in Conference swarm of locusts. They leave House Park sitting high in his tree nothing behind. The shrubs and the stand holding his crossbow, waiting, Another great book, while not Staten berries birds need for cover and food waiting… Island specific, is Peterson First have disappeared. New trees are Guides “Seashores” by John gobbled up as soon as they push So, the bottom line is that the Kricher, illustrated by Gordon their tender, delicious shoots above humans of Staten Island need to Morrison. Published by Houghton- the ground. In Clay Pit Pond Park, confront the reality that because of Mifflin, the guide has 317 of the most state workers who identify and new the more recent inhabitants, there is common and conspicuous animals growth of orchid rush to fabricate a pretty much no new tree growth and plants of the seashores, from small cage to protect the plant from here. If nothing changes, when the jellyfish and wrack to clams, gulls Bambi and her kin. Large areas of current trees on Staten Island die, and whales, many of which can be parkland on Staten Island have been there will be no new growth to seen on Staten Island shorelines. It’s fenced off to protect them from replace them. The understory of all here, from sandy beaches to tide predation. most forests on Staten Island, as pools and salt marshes. well as the mid-story levels up to six or seven feet off the ground have been clear cut by these adorable and abundant newcomers. They present a difficult challenge to those of us who live here and enjoy the local face of nature. We need to face the question and begin the difficult discussion of how to confront the future of forests on Staten Island.

BOOKS ABOUT STATEN ISLAND (PART 2) By Jim Scarcella For a more visual, pictorial guide of It is impossible to fence off all the Continuing our series of notable, events/storyline of Staten Island, parkland in Staten Island. educational and revealing books Margaret Lundrigan and Tova about Staten Island, we cannot Navarra have compiled “Staten A program promoted by the Borough overlook Bruce Kershner’s “Secret Island in the Twentieth Century” President’s office has led to a large Places of Staten Island” published in printed by Arcadia Publishing. The portion of male deer here to be 1998 (Kendall-Hunt Publishers) with book documents, with photos and neutered. Males are easier to spay the guidance of Protectors of Pine narrative, our island in the 1920’s, and more survive the procedure than Oak Woods. Author Kershner, with the pre-war years and post-World the equivalent action imposed on plenty of assistance from Ellen Pratt War II times. It also looks to our does. Since deer live to be twenty and Dick Buegler, provides photos, future, which seems to be coming SPRING 2020 NATURAL RESOURCES PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION Page 7 faster than anticipated. Life was Now a new exhibit, at the simpler then, sometimes difficult, but Conference House Park Visitor still rewarding, this book provides an Center (298 Satterlee Street, 718- appreciation for where we are today. 984-6046), offers us a living glimpse of the operation of the inn and the joys its visitors enjoyed. Called “Fire and Tide: Huguenot Beach in Artifacts and Art”, the exhibition is curated by Mike Shanley and Val Falcone and is funded by a DCA grant from Staten Island Council Arts, with additional funding from NYC Department of Cultural Affairs. one ton) from the harbor bottom every year. That is the equivalent of Go see this free exhibit to learn and a Twin Tower. enjoy our maritime heritage. Click here for the digital information The Corps needs to put the mud somewhere. Two thirds of it is just NRPA ON THE AIR mud. About a third of it bears the By Tony Rose legacy of New York’s industrial past Thanks for your attention to the and contains lead, mercury, zinc, books outlined and stay tuned to our Lights! Camera! The Environment! cadmium, arsenic, PCB’s, PAH’s, NRPA newsletter for future articles etc, etc, etc. about great books about Staten On a Wednesday night in late Island and our shorelines. February, Jim Scarcella, Nicole Doz and Tony Rose travelled to the FIRE AND TIDE: HUGUENOT studios of SI Community TV to tape BEACH IN ARTIFACTS AND an episode of Environmental Issues, ART (TERRA MARINE INN) a public access program hosted by By Jim Scarcella Pat Brady. The topic to be discussed was “The Health of the Harbor.” The specific issue was mud. Contaminated mud to be precise.

The NRPA was formed forty years ago to prevent the US Army Corps of The NRPA has turned back all their Engineers proposal to place dredged attempts to put it back into the water mud into the bottom of the harbor. to date. Proposals have included a The channels in New York harbor twenty-five-hundred-acre island of have to be fifty-five feet deep to contaminated mud off Great Kills, accommodate modern tankers, car filling in pits in the bottom of the bay Staten Island was a relaxation and where mud was removed for resort destination for thousands of carriers and container ships. With the average depth of the harbor construction as well as filling in the people, from the late 1800’s through back third of . the early 20th century. We had being 18 feet deep, a lot of sand and mud must be removed every year. It spectacular beaches, weather, A new proposal, the Harbor and fisheries and recreation is estimated dredgers must pull up a million tons (each cubic yard weighs Tributaries Study (HATS) seeks to opportunities. One of these put gates across the mouth of the magnificent facilities was the Terra harbor to block storm surges. The Marine Inn located right on Huguenot gates would be placed on artificial Beach, between Huguenot Avenue islands. Cue the theme music from and Holten Avenue, the current Jaws! location of Wolfe’s Pond Park. Governor Cuomo recently vetoed a The Terra Marine Inn was a beautiful bill that would forbid placement of architectural wonder on our east contaminated mud in the harbor, so shore. our state of concern is high.

Perhaps hundreds of thousands The topics were given a solid stayed there, ate there, sailed or discussion and can be viewed rowed onto placid Raritan Bay from regularly this month on Public Terra Marine Inn. The inn itself had Access channels of Spectrum and 150 rooms. FIOS TV. Page 8 NATURAL RESOURCES PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION SPRING 2020 Schedule of Events: NRPA MEETING LOCATION is at the Regina M. McGinn, MD Medical Education Center at Staten Island University Hospital 2nd floor, 475 Seaview Ave, Staten Island, NY 10305 click here for directions Saturday, March 28, 2020 NRPA beach cleanup at Oakwood Beach, Tarlton Avenue from 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM. Gloves, bags and refreshments provided. Community service hours certified. For more info: Jim Scarcella 718-873-4291 click here for directions Tuesday, April 7, 2020 - NRPA monthly meeting 7:30 PM Sunday, April 19, 2020 NRPA beach cleanup at Ft Wadsworth Battery Weed Beach from 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM. Meet at the campground inside the park in the shadow of the Verrazano Narrows Bridge, 210 New York Avenue. Environmental Education, gloves, bags and refreshments provided. Community ser- vice hours certified. For more info: National Parks Service Kathy Garofalo, NPS Ranger 718-354-4655, Jim Scarcella 718-873-4291 click here for directions Saturday, April 25, 2020 NRPA beach cleanup for Earth Day at Snug Harbor Beach cleanup, on the Kill Van Kull from 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM. Meet at 1000 Richmond Terrace, at the entrance to Sailors Snug Harbor. Community service hours certified. For more info: Jim Scarcella 718-873-4291 click here for di- rections Saturday May 2, 2020 NRPA beach cleanup at Conference House Park Beach from 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM. Meet at Satterlee Street and Hylan Boulevard, Tottenville with NYC H2O, NYC Parks and Council- man Borelli. Community service hours certified. For more info: Jim Scarcella 718-873-4291 click here for directions Tuesday, May 5, 2020 - NRPA monthly meeting 7:30 PM Saturday, May 23, 2020 NRPA beach cleanup with Friends of Kivlehan Park, Councilman Steve Matteo and Partnership for Parks from 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM. Gloves, bags and refreshments provided. Commu- nity service hours certified. For more info: Jim Scarcella 718-873-4291 click here for directions Tuesday, June 2, 2020 - NRPA monthly meeting 7:30 PM Sunday, June 7, 2020 NRPA beach cleanup at Cedar Grove Beach with Urban Park Rangers from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM. Meet at Ebbitts Street and Cedar Grove Avenue. Gloves, bags and refreshments provided. Community service hours certified. For more info: Jim Scarcella 718-873-4291 click here for directions

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