LINKS

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CATSKILL MOUNTAINKEEPER PROGRAMS AND PARTNERSHIPS

Catskill Mountainkeeper News: A full featured Press Room for Catskill Mountainkeeper including print articles, tv, radio, blogs and other media featuring the Catskill Mountainkeeper as well as bio's and photographs of the Catskill Mountainkeeper staff
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Catskill Trailkeeper: Dedicated to Protecting, Enhancing and Maintaining the Trails of the Catskills.  In Partnership with the New York New Jersey Trail-Conference and the Catskill Center for Conservation and Development
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Catskill Post:  Mountainkeeper's Very Own News and Blogging Site about the Catskill Mountains and the Issues Facing the Region
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Environmental Countdown:  Video portal for the environment with videos from Mountainkeeper and other groups
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 Featured Organizations and Institutions in the Catskills

The Mountain Top Arboretum is located in the heart of the Catskill High Peaks in Tannersville New York.  It is a preserve and a garden with native trees shrubs and wildflowers as well as exotic transplants. Fifty different species of conifers and many varieties of oak, maple, mountain ash, hawthorn, rhododendron, mountain laurel, and wildflowers are thriving on the 10 acres of the Arboretum. On-site labeling on all species self-guides you through the collections of unfamiliar flora, helping you identify such exotic plantings as the Trojan horse fir, weeping katsura, Himalayan pine, Japanese larch, dawn redwood, swamp cypress, incense cedar, and bristlecone pine, as well as the more familiar native species of the Catskill Mountains.   here

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The Homestead School opened in September 1978, to provide a rich academic and practical education within an exceptional rural setting. The School is located in the directors' century-old family homestead on eighty-five acres of fields, woods, marshes, ponds and streams, twelve miles northwest of Port Jervis, New York. The School offers its students Montessori based programs for children ages 3 to 12. The Homestead educates the body, mind, and spirit of children through experiential learning, while holding high standards in academics and character development. Click here

Sustainable Otsego is intended to provide a framework for people advocating and implementing local sustainable practices, while avoiding some of the pitfalls of traditional membership organizations. It aims to avoid time-consuming, process-oriented meetings focused on collective decison-making, while instead providing opportunities for sustainability activists to do their (and our) thing. It is an ad hoc group of more of less like minded people whose names I've collected on a listserv. Adrian Kuzminski, Moderator, Sustainable Otsego  click here

Catskill Citizens for Safe Energy: a grassroots organization that gives area residents a voice in decisions that will affect the quality of our lives and our environment  with a special focus on the impacts on natural gas drilling.
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The Catskill Center for Conservation and Development: a regional conservation and advocacy organization serving the Catskill Mountain region
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The Catskill Mountain Club: a grassroots association of outdoors-people that promotes safe, responsible outdoor recreation and seeks to enhance public awareness and appreciation of our natural and human recreational resources
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The New York-New Jersey Trail Conference:  a federation of 104 hiking clubs and environmental organizations and 10,000 individuals dedicated to building and maintaining marked hiking trails and protecting related open space in the bi-state region
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Catskill Heritage Alliance: an organization dedicated to preserving the harmony between the villages of the central Catskills and the surrounding wilderness
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Catskill Mountain Foundation: promoting arts, culture and sustainable living on the Catskill Region through education and outreach.  CMF also publishes the monthly Catskill Mountain Region Guide
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Sullivan Renaissance: dedicated to enhancing the appearance of Sullivan County, NY while building a sense of pride and spirit in the community
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Sullivan Alliance for Sustainable Development: a network of individuals, businesses and organizations whose goal is to implement a new economic model for Sullivan County based on projects that are socially and environmentally responsible
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Delaware Highlands Conservancy: a land trust working with landowners to protect the natural and cultural heritage of the upper Delaware river valley
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Save The Mountain:  an organization dedicated to preserving Catskill Park communities and environment and opposing the Crossroads Ventures proposed Development at Belleayre Ski Resort in Delaware County
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The Woodstock Land Conservancy:  a non-profit organization committed to the protection and preservation of the open lands, forests, wetlands, scenic areas and historic sites in Woodstock and the surrounding area
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Catskill Scenic Trail:  is owned by the Catskill Revitalization Corporation, Inc with the goal of preserving and promoting the environmental quality of the 19-mile Rails to Trails project that lies on top of the former rail bed of the Ulster & Delware Railroad
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The Committee to Preserve the Finger Lakes: is committed to preserving the natural beauty and purity of the water in the Finger Lakes region of New York State and promoting preservation by identifying, informing and education the general public, officials and administrators on environmental threats. click here

Featured Towns

Town of Bethel, Sullivan County New York and "home of the 1969 Woodstock Music & Arts Festival".  Bicentennial 1809-2009
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Phoenicia: in Ulster County is the largest hamlet in Shandaken and was once a busy hub of the Ulster and Delaware Railroad."Except for a few new buildings," according to the town's Web site, "it hasn't changed that much since the original 11 lots were laid out on each side of the street in 1853.
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The Town of Denning:  a town in Ulster County, New York, USA. The population was 516 at the 2000 census. The name come from an early landowner, William Denning.established in 1849 from part of the Town of Shandaken. The region had been part of the Hardenburgh Patent granted to Johannes Hardenburgh in 1708.
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Local Newspapers and Blogs

The Watershed Post - The online news and community website focused on the Catskill mountains

Sullivan County Democrat - Serving Sullivan County

Times Herald Record - Serving Sullivan County and the Hudson Valley

The Daily Star - Serving Delaware and Otsego Counties

The River Reporter - Serving Sullivan County and Wayne County, PA

The Daily Freeman - Serving Ulster County

Albany Times Union - Serving New York's Capital Region

The Hancock Herald - Serving Delaware County

The Daily Mail - Serving Greene County

Mid-Hudson News Network - Serving the Hudson Valley

Times Journal - Serving Schoharie County

Woodstock Times - Serving Woodstock and Ulster County

New Paltz Times - Serving New Paltz and Ulster County

Poughkeepsie Journal - Serving Dutchess County and the Hudson Valley

The Catskill Chronicle - Serving The Heart of the Catskills

Phoenicia Times - Serving the Catskills High Peaks

Other Resources

Catskill Guide: Comprehensive online guide to the Catskills for over 11 years with over 100,000 visitors in 2007
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The Catskills Institute: an organization to promote research and education on the significance of the Catskills in American Jewish life
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