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…
Category: Environment
Listen: Catskill Mountainkeeper, High Use and Overuse in New York’s Forest Preserves
Can we love a place too much? This busy summer season saw an increase in trash, traffic, and crowded trails in the Catskills and Adirondacks. Kathy Nolan of Catskill Mountainkeeper tells us…
Listen: Clean Energy Co-op
(OCT. 16) The Clean Energy Co-Op’s first solar project was at The Cooperage in Honesdale, and that system generates more than 100% of that building’s energy needs. The Co-op’s next solar initiative…
Listen: DEC on deer virus
Last month, people started finding dead white-tailed deer in the Mid Hudson Valley. Now, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation is testing remains of deer from Orange, Ulster, and Dutchess…
Listen: Check-in with Sullivan County Gov Sustainability Coordinator
(SEPT 21) It’s our weekly check-in with the Sullivan County Government. This time we’re talking to Heather Brown, Sustainability Coordinator. She discusses how her office has been doing during COVID and fills…
Listen: Broadacre Farm
What do you call a real estate development of a giant old farm that plans to build homes AND revitalize active farming? What do you call a commune with no hippies?? Stefan…
Listen: Monarch Butterfly Tagging
The Mamakating Environmental Education & Interpretive Center is holding a monarch tagging session, but don’t bring in any royals you may have laying around that need labeling. They’re talking about monarch butterflies…
Listen: Raphael Rosenbaum and Meaghan Mullally – Save Lake Jeff
Lake Jefferson (just Lake Jeff to its friends) was created nearly 100 years ago when a dam was built with the idea of making hydro-electricity. It took 60 years for that dream…
Catskill Center Streams Q and A about Cycling in the Catskills
A video of a conversation that took place this summer with cycling advocate Kevin Smith, about cycling in the Catskills– road, hybrid, mountain, fat tire– can be accessed from the Catskill Center….