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CAN WE HAVE BOTH CONSERVATION AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT?

On Thursday February 25th (inclement weather date, March 4th), at Mahopac Library (Rte 6), Community Room, at 7PM, the first of a series of conferences will be held with noted panelists representing the areas of Planning, Land Use, and environmental law.

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Gas Drilling

 &

 Marsellus Shale

 

Groups rally in Albany for, against gas drilling

e-mail on the potential natural gas drilling upstate

NYC Council calls for ban on drilling in watersheds

State files show 270 drilling accidents in past 30 years

Dec Extends Public Comment Period For Marcellus Shale

Deep Concern Over Gas Drilling in New York Counties

Gas Drilling Bulletin

Aududon Group Opposes Hydrofracturing

Congress Approves EPA Study on Hydrolic Fracturing's risk

Gas Company Won’t Drill in New York Watershed

Opposition Opinion from NY Times on gas drilling

Editorial:  Shale and Our Water

View SEQRA ‘streamlining' with caution

DEC gas rules get scrutinized

Gas Drilling Boom, Penn Faces an Onslaught of Wastewater

State Plans to Allow Industrial Gas Drilling in NYC Watershed

Water Supply: Hydrofracking to Extract Natural Gas

 


News and Updates

 

Tilly Foster Christmas Pictures

Ribbon cutting ceremony for the first B&B on Tilly
New Arrivals at Tilly Foster Farm!

Putnam OKs lease, Whipple to move ahead

Putnam leases Farm to non-profit for 40 years

More rare farm animals on their way to Tilly Foster

Response to the JN Editorial on The Lease

Putnam weighs lease for Tilly Foster Farm

Some things you ought to know about Tilly Foster

New' Tilly Foster Farm thrives

Nonprofit turns Tilly Foster into a success

Windmill restoration under way at Tilly Foster Farm

Horses return to graze at Tilly Foster Farm

Celebrate our bounty; support local farming

Tilly Foster offers economic opportunity

 


 

Mahopac Park

and Ride

 

Putnam lawmakers vote to restart Mahopac park-and-ride project

County Legislators voted 6-3 in favor
of overturning Bob Bondi's Veto of
August 28.
The Park-and-Ride has been Squashed

Help Stop the Park & Ride from ruining our neighborhood

Does this look like a good place for a parking lot?

www.mahopacridge.com


map showing the ability to produce clean water

The Forests, Water and People (FWAP) analysis and associated State maps and fact sheets for all 20 NA states are available online and ready to view and download.  

The website address is:  
http://www.na.fs.fed.us/watershed/fwp_preview.shtm.  

As you may be aware, the analysis uses maps produced in a geographic information system (GIS) to highlight the connection between forests and the protection of surface drinking water supplies, also known as the "forest to faucet" connection.


 

Phosphates plan would help Lake Oscawana, study says

 


Carmel park opens after decade of delays

Camarda - Spinning the Truth

TEN "OVERBLOWN" YEARS IN THE MAKING:  WHY?


A Message from Westchester Land Trust


THE BATTLE HAS JUST BEGUN

 

PATTERSON CROSSING IS AT YOUR DOOR!

 

 

A Letter From a Resident to COSTCO CEO

Project would bring more harm than good

 

www.stoppattersoncrossing.com

 


 

 

Albino peacock


Sea Levels Rising in New York?


Putnam Humane Society

 Putnam Humane Society now on Facebook



Its a Tough Life for Trees!


Restore Free Speech to Carmel.com

www.carmelresident.org