Imagine an affordable rental home constructed with local timber, local workforce, and with cutting edge green technology – built by and for the community. That is what the Catskills Community Land Trust…
Category: Environment
Scholarships Available for Municipal Officials to Advance Local Stream and Floodplain Management
The Ashokan Watershed Stream Management Program (AWSMP) has funding available for municipal officials who conduct work in the Ashokan Reservoir watershed to attend stream and floodplain management trainings. Code enforcement officers, building…
Sullivan County Annual Litter Pluck
Sullivan County’s Annual Roadside & Trail Litter Pluck is set for April 1 through June 30, 2022. By resolution of the County Legislature, the disposal fee will be waived during that time…
Upper Delaware Council Litter Cleanup Kits
Sullivan Renaissance has awarded a 2021 Healthy Community Initiatives Grant to the Upper Delaware Council (UDC) to create litter clean-up kits that will be available for volunteers to borrow free of charge…
Hudson River Estuary Program – Grants Now Available for Hudson River Estuary Communities
The NYC Department of Environment Conservation is offering $750,000 in new competitive grant funding to help communities in the Hudson River Estuary watershed increase resiliency to flooding, protect water quality, fish and…
Opening day of trout season on the Upper Delaware River
New York – April 1, Pennsylvania – April 3 Opening day of trout season on the Upper Delaware River (UDR) is: New York – April 1 Pennsylvania – April 3 The Friends…
Lackawaxen River Corridor Trail Feasibility Public Input Requested
The Pike County Board of Commissioners has announced the a grant-funded Trail Feasibility Study focusing on the Lackawaxen River corridor, between Hawley and Lackawaxen. The study seeks to determine the physical and…
Listen: National Young Farmers Coalition: Making farming more accessible
(DEC 18) You need land to farm, but access to land is wildly unequal. While roughly 60 percent of agriculture workers are people of color, the vast majority of farm owners are…
Deer Hunting Safety Tips from Jeremy Hurst, NYS DEC
Tis’ the season…hunting season. Deer hunting season for rifles continues until December 13, and muzzle-loader season continues nine days past that. Jeremy Hurst, Big Game Biologist for the New York State Department…