Environment DEC
From the November 2009 issue
Miscellaneous News Items
DEC REVISES 10-YEAR PHEASANT MANAGEMENT PLAN
Public comments are sought on a new draft plan that will help guide the Department of Environmental Conservation's (DEC) management actions for wild and state-propagated ring-necked pheasants for the next decade. The plan updates DEC's 1999 version of "A Ten-Year Management Plan for Ring-necked Pheasants in New York" and, when finalized, will be in effect through 2020. Please see related press release.
DEC AND PARTNERS HOLD EVENTS FOR PLANTING STREAM BUFFERS IN HUDSON VALLEY
Installing a tree tube at a "Trees for Tribs" project. Tree tubes protect seedlings from damage, boosting survival rates.
The Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) was joined by partnering organizations and dozens of volunteers in conducting stream buffer plantings throughout the Hudson River Valley as part of the "Hudson River Estuary Trees for Tribs" initiative last month. Stream buffers help reduce pollution, flooding and erosion and serve as a shoreline transition zone and travel corridor for wildlife, along with increasing overall biodiversity and improving in-stream health. Please see related press release.
STUDENTS STATEWIDE ENGAGE IN SCIENTIFIC LEARNING EXERCISES ON HUDSON RIVER
Students from the University Neighborhood School sample the waters of the East River by the Brooklyn Bridge. (Photo: Chris Bowser)
More than 3,000 students and educators from New York Harbor to Schuylerville participated in the seventh annual "A Day in the Life of the Hudson River" field program, aimed at educating Hudson Valley residents about the ecology of the river through innovative and engaging public programs and through the development of a K-12 curriculum. Environmental education centers and school classes all along the Hudson River estuary collected scientific information by sampling the estuary's waters at 61 sites and shared it to create a "snapshot" of the river's condition. Please see related press release.
LOCAL SPORTSMAN HONORED BY DEDICATION AT SPICER CREEK WMA
Will Elliott, local sportsman and outdoor writer, accompanies sportsman John McCune (in wheelchair) and his wife Cindy as they check out the new Universal Access Blind constructed at Spicer Creek WMA
.A new waterfowl hunting blind and observation deck was dedicated in memory of John Daniels, an avid local sportsman and conservationist. During his lifetime, Daniels banded hundreds of diving ducks on the Niagara River, providing valuable information on the life histories and migration of the river's waterfowl. The new universal access blind and observation deck is located on the Niagara River's shoreline at Spicer Creek Wildlife Management Area in the Town of Grand Island.
