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A man and woman look at and point to a map at a public meeting. Photo by L Heady

City of Poughkeepsie officials have approved the use of a Natural Resources Inventory that will provide planners, developers, and residents with easy access to a wealth of information about the city’s environment.

Winter view of swamp with ice and sedge tussocks.

GOSHEN - Orange County is seeking state permission for any of its towns and cities to impose a tax on property sales and use the proceeds to preserve open space and other valued areas by buying land or its…

Screen shot of Glenn Sapir, Chair of the Natural Resources Inventory Committee for the Town of Putnam Valley Commission for the Environment, during a video interview.

Glenn Sapir, conservationist and author, was interviewed on Locally Sourced about the Putnam Valley Natural Resources Inventory. Glenn was chair of the NRI Working Group.

Audience of community members at NRI meeting with maps hanging in the background

The maps provide an inventory critical to evaluating existing resources and using that knowledge to develop comprehensive plans that will highlight areas that need protection, and those that can be further developed…

Group photo of staff from the Hudson River Estuary Program and Cornell

For more than 20 years, Cornell has facilitated collaborative solutions to protect and preserve the Hudson River Estuary and its watershed, and on May 23, the university and the College of Agriculture and…

Hand holding a Jefferson-blue spotted salamander complex at night

Each year in late March and early April, from New Jersey to Maine, forest-dwelling amphibians like spotted salamanders and wood frogs wake up from their winter homes and migrate during the night to vernal pools for…