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Golf Courses and Drinking Water
As you may have heard, Senator Carlucci from Rockland County and Assemblywoman Galef from Ossining have introduced enabling legislation, S4420 and A6444 respectively, that would adversely affect many golf courses in New York State. It would allow municipalities to assess New York State golf courses and clubs based on the properties’ highest and best use. […]
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The Importance of Protecting Wetlands
More than half of America’s coastal wetlands, approximately 120 million acres, have disappeared since 1900. Why has this happened?
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What are Wetlands and What We Can Do to Protect them?
Wetlands are defined by the EPA as areas where water covers the soil or is present either at or near the surface of the soil all year or for varying periods of time during the year, including during the growing season.
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Climate Change Conversation
On Wednesday, October 17, 2018, the Land Alliance, in partnership with the North Country Garden Club, hosted an informative, non-partisan and balanced lecture about climate change.
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An Extraordinary Gift for Future Conservation Projects
We are so pleased to announce that this past spring, Sandy and Eric Krasnoff made a very generous gift of $750,000 to the Land Alliance’s Conservation Action Fund (CAF).
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