Landowner Resource News

Conservation Decreases Infectious Diseases

June 16, 2011 | Posted in Headline, Landowner Resource, Nature | Keywords: biodiversity, conservation, disease, lyme

The connection between diversity and disease is sufficiently clear and widespread that it lends extra importance to efforts to preserve biological diversity around the world.

Felicia Keesing, Associate Professor of Biology, Bard College and author of Impacts of biodiversity on the Emergence and transmission of infectious diseases (Nature, December 2, 2010)
The science is in: the loss of biodiversity leads to an increase in infectious diseases, including Lyme disease and West Nile. When species diversity declines, the animals that remain tend to be good hosts for pathogens. CONTINUE READING

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Managing Land for Both Farmland and Grassland Bird Habitat

June 15, 2011 | Posted in CLC, Headline, Landowner Resource, Nature | Keywords: birds, bobolink, mowing, Ooms

Ooms Conservation Area at Sutherland Pond was recently mowed – In accordance with management practices recommended by the US Department of Agriculture.

Grassland birds depend on agricultural lands for breeding. Farmers depend on this same land for their livelihood. Grassland bird populations such as savannah sparrows, grasshopper sparrows, bobolinks and Eastern meadowlarks, have significantly decreased over the last thirty years for a number of reasons – development encroaching on farmland, fields that have been taken out of production which revert to woodland and intensification of certain agricultural practices
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Upcoming Workshops at Cornel Cooperative Extension

June 6, 2011 | Posted in Landowner Resource, Non CLC Event

Workshops include Preserving the Harvest, Wells and Wastewater, Woodlands, Save Energy, and Rain Barrels

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Emerald ash borer in Hudson Valley

May 10, 2011 | Posted in Headline, Landowner Resource, Nature

Emerald ash borer, an invasive species, has been found close to Columbia County. Prevent infestation by refraining from transporting wood and be on the lookout for warning signs on your property.

According to an AP Report, forestry experts are searching the Kingston, NY area for signs of emerald ash borer. The Hudson Valley is the farthest east in the US northeast the invasive species has been found.
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Conservation Minded – March 2011

March 20, 2011 | Posted in Conservation Minded, Landowner Resource, Publication, Working Farms

Conservation Minded: For Owners of Protected Land
Articles on:
CLC 25^th Anniversary
Tapping Maple Syrup
NY State Conservation Easement Tax Credit
Upcoming Events

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