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Editorial: The importance of water conservation

Editorial: The importance of water conservation

Due to the lack of rain and the fact that there was hardly any snow last winter there have been some jitters about the adequacy of the water supply. Kinda makes you glad that the local water is not being sold to a bottling company like Niagara, which would be fighting a reduction in its supply tooth and nail at this point.

The state of the Catskills

The state of the Catskills

The keynote speaker told the fourth biennial conference of the Catskill Environmental Research and Monitoring last Thursday morning that he regards the creation of the state Catskills forest preserve in 1888 as the beginning of “what must be one of the longest experiments in natural recovery and restoration ecology” in the world.