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Humes Meadow Update
When protecting important natural areas land trusts are also protecting parts of history. The significance of the history can range from a simple record of land…
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Take the Great Healthy Backyard Pledge
What Can You Do to Protect Our Drinking Water? Take the Great Healthy Backyard Pledge. Longer days are a harbinger of spring, and…
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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…
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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? Human population pressures, pollution, development and climate change…
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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…
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