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Out There: Backyard Birding

Pete Salmansohn started with fish, as an angler. Connie Mayer-Bakall started with wolves, as an educator. But after decades of enjoying the outdoors, each was drawn to birds.

“There’s something comforting and soothing about realizing that while our whole world has gone crazy and surreal, the birds are still doing what they’ve done for millions of years,” says Mayer-Bakall, president of the Putnam Highlands Audubon Society, after checking the feeders in her yard. (Current sightings: Four rose-breasted grosbeak males and a couple of females, blue-winged warblers, an indigo bunting, and a northern oriole.)

In the NewsJohn ThompsonJune 4, 2020birding, catskills, Catskills Center, CRISP

This Carnivorous Plant Invaded New York. That May Be Its Only Hope.

Michael Tessler, a biologist at the American Museum of Natural History, holding waterwheels, a carnivorous aquatic plant, in Big Pond near New York’s Catskill Mountains.

Photo Credit: Brittainy Newman/The New York Times

EDITORIAL Take Control! Consider Otsego Lake Association

With so many areas of American life seemingly spinning out of control, there’s a contrary example in the Otsego Lake Association (OLA).

Its “100-percent volunteers,” according to Jim Howarth, co-president with David Sanford, are focused on a common mission: “Protecting the health, beauty and wellbeing” of the lake.

NYC DEP Unveils Tool At Catskills Trail To Brush Off Invasive Species

The New York City Department of Environmental Protection has a new way to combat invasive species. The DEP installed a boot brush station at the foot of a trail in Delaware County. It is believed to be the first such station in the Catskills. WAMC’s Hudson Valley Bureau Chief Allison Dunne was there for

Invasive Species, In the NewsJohn ThompsonJuly 13, 2018Invasive Species, Boot Brush, CRISP, John Thompson

Catskill Center announces the availability of funding for invasive species control, education and citizen science programs

ARKVILLE — In an effort to stop the spread of invasive species that threaten our region’s ecosystem, raise awareness about invasive species and encourage the public to participate in the study of invasives, the Catskill Regional Invasive Species Partnership (CRISP) is seeking projects to fund in 2018.

Invasive Species, In the NewsJason CurryApril 4, 2018Invasive Species, CRISP, Funding

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