Water
By Simona David on Friday, Sep. 3, 2010 - 5:27 pm
Kristen Wyckoff, the chair of the Gilboa Museum, stands next to one of Gilboa's prehistoric tree stumps. Photo by Simona David.
In the 1850s, a Gilboa minister named Samuel Lockwood, an amateur naturalist, found a sandstone cast of an ancient tree trunk... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Sep. 1, 2010 - 7:57 pm
The Village Voice's food critic, Robert Sietsema, appears to have vacationed in the Catskills last week. He posted three blog entries under the header Upstate Journal, in which he waxes enthusiastic about Bread Alone Bakery in Boiceville and proves savvy... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Sep. 1, 2010 - 12:00 pm
Don't get your hopes up -- you've had your heart broken before. But this time it's different, the EPA says:
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced the last of the Hydraulic Fracturing Study Public Meetings for September 13 and 15, 2010, at... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Sep. 1, 2010 - 11:00 am
According to the Daily Mail, an unnamed indie film shot a nude scene in a waterfall on Kaaterskill Creek recently. Anybody get a peek?
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Aug. 30, 2010 - 5:19 pm
Just published in the Federal Register for Wednesday, September 15: A meeting of the DRBC at the West Trenton Volunteer Fire Company, 40 West Upper Ferry Road, West Trenton, New Jersey.
There's a lot of boilerplate stuff on the agenda, but this item... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Aug. 30, 2010 - 9:45 am
The Times Herald-Record's Steve Israel writes that even though a potential moratorium on gas drilling in New York state will only last until May (and that's only if it's approved by the State Assembly and the governor), nobody will be fracking until next... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Aug. 27, 2010 - 12:49 pm
Ulster County Comptroller Eliot Auerbach, who blogs at the not-so-originally-named Ulster County Comptroller blog, sent up a flare of anger yesterday about this week's announcement that the DEP is buying another 1,323 acres upstate to protect is... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2010 - 5:12 pm
The EPA might not be able to get its act together to organize a public meeting on hydrofracking, but the New York City Council hosted one last night at the Borough of Manhattan Community College. On hand: A few hundred concerned citizens, mostly anti-... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2010 - 3:51 pm
The specific parcels involved in New York City's land-buying plans for the New York City watershed -- the subject of much debate over the past year -- have finally been announced today.
In a press release published on the NYC Department of Environmental... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Aug. 23, 2010 - 7:49 am
Fear of fracking is everywhere, and it's starting to affect the whims of potential real estate buyers in Sullivan County, writes David Knudsen of the Sullivan County Real Estate blog. Yesterday, he recounted a conversation he had with a friend and... Read more
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