This week, we “circle back” to catch up with a Ghanaian student’s dream of attending the Cooperstown Graduate Program this fall, Crumhorn Mountain and the Swart-Wilcox House barn.…
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“We waited to remove the hemlocks until the ground was frozen hard and the snow was not too deep,” said Justin Williams, agricultural specialist and public lands manager at OLT. “That prevents damage to the gardens from the heavy equipment.”…
At present, the work is being divided among three committees. The GIS Data Gathering Committee is charged with, well, data gathering, concentrating initially on soil, water and forest resources, then moving into areas such as land use.…
The new year is now underway, and Iron String Press continues to reach out to area officials—Otsego County’s movers and shakers—to find out what they are most looking forward to accomplishing in the months ahead. We’ll print their responses this month, as they are received, continuing with the following entities and those at their helm.…
The camp, a 668-acre site that includes forests, wetlands, and Crumhorn Lake, is being offered for sale by the Leatherstocking Council of the Boy Scouts of America with no constraints on how the property can be sold, subdivided, or used.…
Otsego Land Trust is leading the effort to prevent outsized development on the Camp Henderson site, noting that Crumhorn Mountain is one of the largest undeveloped tracts of land in Otsego County.…
Remember “The War of the Worlds”? The 1938 Halloween episode of a radio series directed and narrated by Orson Welles, “The Mercury Theatre on the Air,” featured an adaptation of H.G. Wells’ science fiction novel, “The War of the Worlds.” Performed and broadcast live at 8 p.m. on October 30 of that year over the CBS Radio Network, the episode is famous for inciting a panic when some members of the listening audience were convinced that a Martian invasion was…
The whole of the greater Otsego County region can hope Otsego Land Trust’s advocacy will succeed in obtaining grants through New York’s “Clean Water, Clean Air and Green Jobs Environmental Bond Act.” The Trust’s “News from the Noteworthy” column published August 10 outlines projects that surely merit Bond Act support. Don’t be fooled, though, by the now-standard government public relations ploy of the “educational listening tour.” They’re little more than cut-and-paste roadshows repeating the same bullet-point platitudes and painting a…
Otsego Land Trust received $14,780.00 as one of this year’s 19 Preserve New York grants to fund structural analysis and condition assessment at Brookwood Point. The study will consider restoration work of the historic property and evaluate ways to improve public amenities while maintaining the “secret garden” atmosphere.…
Representatives overseeing the New York State $4.2 billion Environmental Bond Act are asking the public to help determine how the funds will be used. Governor Kathy Hochul is hosting an educational listening tour around the state to gather project ideas that will exemplify funding priorities. Officials from Otsego Land Trust and the Otsego County Conservation Association attended a recent session in Albany and a subsequent virtual session to advocate for projects in our region and learn about the details of…