The Sam’s Point area of the Shawangunk Mountains in Ulster County flooded with huckleberry pickers each summer from the mid-1800s until the early 1960s. Mostly hardscrabble locals, they built hundreds of seasonal shacks to be closer to their wild crop, selling the sweet berries in Newburgh, Middletown, New Jersey, and to local Ulster County distributors.…
I get injured pretty rarely. This honestly confuses me. I’ve taken absolutely zero precautions to ensure safety during my life. For instance, when I was looking to get back to the campsite after that anarchic music festival in Central America, and a friend said we could hitch a ride with one of the truckers breaking…
Other environmental news you may have missed… THE CORONAVIRUS took the life of a man in the Philippians, the first reported death outside China, as worldwide cases passed 14,000. More than 50 deaths were reported in China in the last 24 hours. The virus crossed into the human population in the city of Wuhan, China,…
Researchers have identified the world’s oldest known forest in the eastern Catskills. The site, located outside Cairo in Greene County, is about 2 million years older than the title’s previous holder, located just miles away in Gilboa. Fossilized remains of three different species move back the date when the ancestors of modern trees developed and…
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP tweeted about a regional issue The Other Hudson Valley has been following closely — the set of proposals seeking to protect New York Harbor and the lower Hudson Valley from another Hurricane Sandy. The most ambitious of these involves building a $119 billion, five-mile seawall from New Jersey to Queens, a project…
Gov. Andrew Cuomo proposed Tuesday creating a park on the Hudson River’s eastern shore, part of a set of conservation efforts in his 2021 Executive Budget. The park is billed as “New York’s first linear, water-based park” in the governor’s budget briefing. The “Hudson Eagles State Recreation Area” would consist of five boat launches with…
Welcome to the first-ever This Week in The World, a weekly round-up by TOHV of environmental news in the Hudson Valley and everywhere else. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo put Climate Change center stage during his eighth annual State of The State Address last week, calling it “the transcendent threat of our times.” The “Restore…
In Brief – Almost 2,000 acres will be added to state parks in the Hudson Valley under a new proposal by Gov. Andrew Cuomo. The plan, part of Cuomo’s annual State of the State proposals, would expand parks in Ulster, Dutchess, Orange, Putnam and Westchester counties. Minnewaska State Park More than 600 acres will be…
A Kingston businessman will be held personally responsible for giant piles of hazardous materials on his land after being cited last week under the federal Superfund Law. Formerly part of the city’s IBM campus, the land is owned by Alan L. Ginsberg and contains piles of asbestos-containing materials seemingly weighing multiple tons, as well as…
In Brief – The Columbia County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Wednesday to support a lawsuit against the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for its certification of GE’s clean-up of the Hudson River. Columbia County joins three other counties – Dutchess, Ulster and Greene – that have already signed onto the lawsuit, which was filed…
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