Key to community vitality and wildlife health
Core Forest one of the most special places in NYS
As you walk one of the old logging roads, deep in the woods, the smell of moss, decaying leaves, and balsam wafts around you. There’s…
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Because it’s part of who we are…
Looking out from the hilltop, over the barns and pastures as the sun rises and the warm glow creeps across the sky, you’d think you…
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Spoon Dairy Farm
Dairy Farm Grant Opportunity
Calling all dairy farmers interested in participating
The Dairy Transitions Farmland Protection Initiative is focused on dairy farms that are either looking to diversify their operation, or transfer to the next generation…
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It’s an Ecological Trap
Climate change can turn Monarch Butterflies’ favorite food into poison New research is documenting the impact of increased CO2 in our atmosphere on the plants,…
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©Bob McNamara
Tug Hill Land Trust Concerned About Mad River Wind Facility
Read the Entire White Paper Prepared by SUNY ESF
Tug Hill Tomorrow Land Trust has released a new “white paper” report with concerns about the wind energy facility proposed along the Mad River in…
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Top of the Hill Award
Tom, Tug Hill, and a lifetime spent in the out-of-doors
It seems that Tom Walker has always been passionate about Tug Hill. As part of the Tug Hill Trekers outdoor group Tom will tell you…
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© The Cataldo Family
A Family’s Land is Protected Forever in the Town of Greig
A sacred trust, a love together along the Independence River
It seems like it is always cold here in the North Country. The frosty nights of the fall, the blustery, bitter cold of winter and…
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© Loretta Lepkowski
Local Land and Water Conservation Get a Boost
More Families Can Conserve Their Lands
Families and landowners in the Tug Hill region, including the counties of Jefferson, Lewis, Oneida and Oswego, just received good news with the announcement that…
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© Bob McNamara
Concerned Wind Facility Will Hurt Forests, Salmon River, Hunting, Fishing, Fort Drum, Economy
Tug Hill Tomorrow Land Trust told the New York State Public Service Commission that it is concerned a major industrial wind energy facility proposed for…
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© Katie Malinowski
Conserving tradition
Creative Partnership Make Conservation Possible
Mitch Yerdon has spent much of his life—40 years of it—out hiking these woods, hunting with friends and spending time at the camp. There have…
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