Volunteers give more than time
Imagine paddling down the Black River, a river that provides drinking water to the City of Watertown and Fort Drum, and discovering fishing line ensnared…
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Farm Credit East
More Than a Financial Business
A commitment to the next generation
If you are a farmer in the Tug Hill region you are probably familiar with Farm Credit East. Serving agricultural efforts and rural communities throughout…
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Learn How To Save Your ASH
Learn how to conserve ash and manage emerald ash borer (EAB) – the future of ash is in your hands!
The MaMA program of the Ecological Research Institute (www.MonitoringAsh.org) provides constructive actions to take at each stage of Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) invasion, including even…
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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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