Land Sale in Harrison
Submitted by Tom Andersen on Wed, 09/30/2009 - 9:47amPosted in:
What is the effect on land preservation of the recession and the difficulty towns are having balancing their budgets? One answer can be found in Harrison, where the town wants to sell 14 undeveloped acres it owns to raise cash.
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$5 Million Easement
Submitted by Tom Andersen on Thu, 08/27/2009 - 9:31amPosted in:
Bernards, New Jersey, has voted to buy a conservation easement that includes public access for $5 million.
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For Sale
Submitted by Tom Andersen on Mon, 08/03/2009 - 9:51amPosted in:
Even when I lived in the Adirondacks, 30 years ago, Follensby Pond was iconic -- a remote lake with both wilderness and poetry at its heart. Ralph Waldo Emerson, James Russell Lowell, Louis Agassiz and others of the Boston intellectual elite camped there in 1858, and their host, William James Stillman, underwent some truly mystical experiences, if his book, The Autobiography of a Journalist, is to be believed.
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Down on the Farm
Submitted by Tom Andersen on Mon, 07/20/2009 - 11:21amPosted in:
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.
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Deer on the Diamond
Submitted by Tom Andersen on Wed, 06/03/2009 - 3:38pmPosted in:
Wondering just how common deer have gotten in Westchester County? A doe
ran onto the field during a high school baseball game in Dobbs Ferry
yesterday.
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New at Bedford Audubon
Submitted by Tom Andersen on Tue, 01/06/2009 - 10:46amPosted in:
Our friend Jim Nordgren has been named the first executive director in
the 95-year history of Bedford Audubon. Jim is a member of Westchester
Land Trust's Advisory Board. He and his wife, Peggy, also donated a
conservation easement on their land in South Salem, and Jim was
instrumental in efforts to buy and protect the Old Field Preserve and
the Leon Levy Preserve.
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Protecting Ryder Farm
Submitted by Tom Andersen on Mon, 07/21/2008 - 3:51pmPosted in:
Ryder Farm, one of the oldest farms in the region (it's been in the
same family for almost 200 years), sits on the west shore of Peach
Lake, just above the North Salem border, in Southeast. Although it's in
Putnam County, it's close enough and important enough for us to do what
we can to help protect it.
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Farmland Protection
Submitted by Tom Andersen on Fri, 07/11/2008 - 1:02pmPosted in:
There's good news from Albany for those of us who think protecting
working farms should be a state priority.
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The Decider
Submitted by Tom Andersen on Mon, 07/07/2008 - 10:56amPosted in:
Christopher O. Ward, the executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, gets high praise in the New York Times today for knowing how to make tough decisions. We worked with Chris on two projects three or four years ago, when he was the commissioner of the New York City Department of Environmental Protection.
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The Meads of Waccabuc
Submitted by Tom Andersen on Tue, 07/01/2008 - 12:42pmPosted in:
Yesterday's mail brought the Spring 2008 issue of the
Westchester Historian, the journal of the Westchester County Historical
Society, and we were excited to see that the issue bore the title, "Stewards of
the Land: The Meads of Waccabuc."
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