The Shawangunk Ridge Biodiversity Partnership’s winter lecture series concluded last Thursday with “Fire on the Ridge,” a discussion of forest ecology and wildfire management with Gabe Chapin, forest ecologist with The Nature Conservancy, and Hank Alicandri, director of Sam’s Point in Minnewaska State Park Preserve.
Town officials are looking for anyone who might know the name of the stream that passes behind the Rec Center. If they can’t come up with a historical name, they’ll give it one.
The best way to make friends with a porcupine? Offer the apple-loving critters a Red Delicious apple, which according to Melissa Gillmer, head keeper at Bear Mountain’s Trailside Museums and Zoo, is their preferred variety of one of their favorite foods.
Held weekly each February, the “Secrets of the Shawangunks” 2017 series highlights glaciers, the American chestnut, porcupines and wildfires.
Public interest in this corridor being stitched together is high, Barnard reported, with 65 people attending a recent meeting held in Esopus.
An interactive open house will be held in New Paltz this Sunday, September 25 from 2 to 5 p.m. at
It’s been a long, hot, summer for anyone who works or plays or even walks outside, whether viewed globally or
Science may provide evidence that a particular river or stream has problems, but what people see with their own eyes
A parking lot. A floating storage facility. A catastrophe waiting to happen. A tourism killer. Those are but a few of
It’s that time of year that makes even outdoorsy types turn indoorsy. It’s too cold to hike comfortably, but not