July, 2009

The Regional Plan Association released a report yesterday with recommendations for ways to make six communities in Westchester County and Connecticut more livable.

Locally-grown food is all the rage among the cognoscenti. The Journal News has a story today (here) that sketches out the trend and profiles a handful of farms in Westchester.

We're big turtle fans here at Westchester Land Trust -- we have spotted, box, wood, musk, painted and snapping on land we've protected, and we spent weeks a few years ago trying to find bog turtles in a fen we thought a likely spot.

We were amused to read the other day that the list of witnesses scheduled to testify at the Senate's hearings on Sonia Sotomayor's nomination to the Supreme Court included one of our favorite former pitchers (David Cone, Mets 1987-1991 and Yankees (1996-2001) and one of our favorite Westchester Land Trust Board members, Mary Boies.

Landowners in North Salem are helping protect the breeding grounds of our area's last remaining bobolinks.