Wallkill River will be celebrated with festival at Sojourner Truth Park in New Paltz
Members of the Wallkill River Watershed Alliance will be holding the first annual festival to celebrate the river at Sojourner Truth Park in New Paltz on October 7.
Nature
9 things to know about the black vulture
Black vultures are the most populous vulture in the Western Hemisphere, but they’re relatively new to New York State. Here are some things to keep in mind next time you see a dark shape circling above.
Save the bats!
Want to help the local bat population? Put up a bat house. It won’t save the bats from white-nosed syndrome, but it ups the odds that surviving bats will reproduce.
DEP says storm exacerbated culling of trees in Shokan
Across from the Pine View Bakery in Shokan, on Route 28, trees are lying helter-skelter on several acres of ground surrounded on three sides by forest. Contrary to rumor, it’s not going to be a parking lot for the forthcoming Ashokan Rail Trail.
It’s high season for Lyme in the Hudson Valley
Did you know deer are actually not the key host for the ticks that cause Lyme? And that most infections come from ticks in the nymph stage, when they’re no larger than a poppy seed?
Jupiter and Saturn and the Great Conjunction Curse
This Solstice conjunction will be the most spectacular meeting of planets in our lives.
Kayak Black Creek & Chodikee Lake in Highland
Saturday, June 24: Craig Chapman of New Paltz Kayaking Tours will supply rental kayaks and canoes at a cost of $10 each, or you can bring your own kayak to join the fleet.
Neighbors upset over new Overlook Mt. trail parking
“Our homes have been devalued. We had really private homes, and now there’s going to be a huge public parking lot…right across the road.”
Planting for resettled honeybees at Thorn Preserve
Kind-hearted people rescue stray dogs and cats and find them homes, but Chris Layman does just the opposite when he rescues honeybees.
Mohonk Foothills Phenology Project seeks volunteers to collect nature data
Succinctly defined by the National Wildlife Federation as “the study of how the biological world times natural events,” phenology matters to humans in a million different ways.