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Pine Croft Biodiversity

Submitted by Tom Andersen on Tue, 09/29/2009 - 10:12am
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A team of local scientists has found 140 different species at the Pine Croft Preserve in Lewisboro.

Bobolinks

Submitted by Tom Andersen on Mon, 07/06/2009 - 2:58pm
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Landowners in North Salem are helping protect the breeding grounds of our area's last remaining bobolinks.

Angle Fly Work Day

Submitted by Tom Andersen on Wed, 06/10/2009 - 5:19pm
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Friends of Angle Fly invite you to join them at Angle Fly Preserve on Sunday, June 14. for their next work day.

Tour the Vernal Pools

Submitted by Tom Andersen on Mon, 03/30/2009 - 10:33am
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Vi Patek, leader of the Lewisboro Land Trust Walking Group, has enlisted Westchester Land Trust's Damon Oscarson to lead a walk of the Leon Levy Preserve on Friday, April 3, at 1 p.m.

Bird-Eat-Bird

Submitted by Tom Andersen on Mon, 01/12/2009 - 1:00pm
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Accipiters - hawks that hunt and eat other birds - are well-known for staking out bird feeders in winter and picking off chickadees, titmice, nuthatches and other small prey: we feed the small birds sunflower seeds, and the small birds become food for the bigger birds.

!0-Year-Old Sterling

Submitted by Tom Andersen on Fri, 09/26/2008 - 5:07pm
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Sterling Forest, the 15,000-acre state park across the river in Orange and Rockland counties, turns 10 years old this fall, and a celebration is planned for Sunday.

Walking in Lewisboro

Submitted by Tom Andersen on Thu, 07/24/2008 - 1:29pm
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You don't have to live in Lewisboro to be part of Vi Patek's Lewisboro Land Trust walking group. Vi leads walks through preserves in town throughout the year. The next on is Saturday, July 26, at 9 a.m., at the Old Field Preserve, on Mead Street, Waccabuc.

In the Fen

Submitted by Tom Andersen on Fri, 07/11/2008 - 3:52pm
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Our favorite secret natural area is an eight- or 10-acre fen at the bottom of a basin of hills covered with oaks, hickories and red cedars.

Pound Ridge Open House

Submitted by Tom Andersen on Tue, 06/03/2008 - 3:20pm
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The Pound Ridge Land Conservancy, with whom we have worked closely over the past six or seven years, is having an open house on Sunday, June 8, from 2 to 4 p.m., to mark the opening of its new house, at the Armstrong Preserve on Route 121, just north of the Cross River Reservoir causeway.

Wilderness Walk in '60 Hikes'

Submitted by Tom Andersen on Tue, 06/03/2008 - 2:05pm
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Westchester Wilderness Walk, our 150-acre preserve in Pound Ridge, is featured in a new book called 60 Hikes Within 60 Miles: New York City (2nd edition), by Christopher and Catherine Brooks.

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