Sentences with phrase «hudson highlands»

Construction soon will commence on the first phase of the Hudson Highlands Fjord Trail, an off - road route between Beacon and Cold Spring that will provide safe access to trails in Hudson Highlands State Park Preserve.

Dogs are welcome at all Scenic Hudson parks except Scenic Hudson Park at Irvington and Hudson Highlands Nature Museum.

In addition to offering sweeping views of the river and Hudson Highlands, the property is highly visible from many surrounding public viewpoints, including the Bear Mountain Bridge and numerous parks and hiking trails.

With partners in the Hudson Highlands, we preserved world - class views by preventing construction of a cell tower in Bear Mountain State Park and ensuring a new residential complex at the U.S. Military Academy will blend into the landscape.

In addition to state and local government, Scenic Hudson collaborates with the following land trusts in its campaign: Audubon New York, Columbia Land Conservancy, Dutchess Land Conservancy, Esopus Creek Conservancy, Greene Land Trust, The Highlands Coalition, Hudson Highlands Land Trust, Mohawk Hudson Land Conservancy, The Nature Conservancy, New York - New Jersey Trail Conference, Open Space Institute, Trust for Public Land, Wallkill Valley Land Trust, Westchester Land Trust, and Winnakee Land Trust.

The Lila Acheson and DeWitt Wallace Fund for the Hudson Highlands was cited for supplying monies to purchase the waterfront land.

Saturday, Nov. 1, from 9 a.m. — 1 p.m. — Hudson Highlands Gateway Park Tree Planting, CORTLANDT, Westchester County — Help us plant native trees and shrubs to reduce erosion and help improve water quality.

One of the most significant preservation opportunities in the Hudson Highlands, this acquisition preserves the continuity of a world - class scenic landscape encompassing Bear Mountain State Park and undeveloped acreage within the U.S. Military Academy.

The purchase, accomplished in partnership with the Hudson Highlands Land Trust, is part of Scenic Hudson's collaborative campaign to Save the Land That Matters Most, conserving 65,000 acres of great scenic, ecological and agricultural significance.

Visible for miles from popular public viewpoints — including Bear Mountain Bridge, the Appalachian Trail and Hudson Highlands State Park — Popolopen Ridge features steep slopes, rock outcroppings, streams and wetlands, unbroken forest cover and a significant stand of mountain laurel.

In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Hudson Highlands Nature Museum in Cornwall - on - Hudson, a champagne brunch and silent auction will be conducted at noon Sunday at the Powelton Club in Balmville.

«His experience in saving land for public benefit in the Hudson Highlands is important as Scenic Hudson has a major campaign underway to preserve 65,000 acres up and down the Hudson — our effort with partners to Save the Land That Matters Most.»

He is a member of the Council for Foreign Relations and director and secretary for the Hudson Highlands Land Trust.

Additionally the Hudson Highlands Land Trust can claim a lead role in protecting several thousand more acres through partnerships with other regional land - conservation organizations — including Scenic Hudson — and New York State.

Federally recognized as «lands of national significance,» the Hudson Highlands have been described as one of the world's great «biological melting pots» because of the astonishing diversity of wildlife they support.

Lying within the state - designated Hudson Highlands Scenic Area of Statewide Significance, the land is visible from the adjoining heavily traveled Metro - North commuter railroad line, the Hudson River and points on its western shore.

From the property there are excellent views of Constitution Marsh, the river, West Point and the Hudson Highlands.

From the property one can see south to the Hudson Highlands and north past the Poughkeepsie Railroad Bridge.

Site of the foundry's wharf, it features a small - boat launch and viewing decks that provide spectacular Hudson Highlands views.

«Permanently protecting this magnificent landscape ensures that long - treasured views of the Hudson Highlands will continue to enchant visitors and safeguards habitat in what has been called one of the world's most diverse biological melting pots,» said Scenic Hudson President Ned Sullivan.

«It was a real pleasure to partner with the Putnam Highlands Audubon Society and Scenic Hudson to permanently preserve this ecologically sensitive property and add it to the growing network of protected land in the Hudson Highlands,» said HHLT Executive Director Andrew Chmar.

The Hudson Highlands Land Trust was instrumental in securing this conservation easement, while the Putnam Highlands Audubon Society acted with great foresight to guarantee permanent legal protection of and public access to their sanctuary,» said Steve Rosenberg, executive director of the Scenic Hudson Land Trust.

It is part of world - class views of the Hudson Highlands from state parks such as Bear Mountain and Storm King, as well as from popular viewpoints at West Point and along Storm King Highway, all in Orange County.

In January 2010, Scenic Hudson protected 140 acres in the heart of the Hudson Highlands essential to maintaining magnificent views

Starting in 1964 she joined a small group of Scenic Hudson founders in a campaign to protect Storm King Mountain, an iconic landmark in the Hudson Highlands.

These properties include a landscape prominently visible from many public viewpoints in the Hudson Highlands and the largest farm Scenic Hudson has ever conserved.

Representatives of The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation participated and viewed the 2.5 - acre park's walking trails, dramatic shoreline art installation and stunning vistas of the Hudson River and iconic Hudson Highlands.

What you're guaranteed to see — if you (carefully) bushwhack downhill to a south - facing rock ledge — is a spectacular panorama of the Hudson Highlands.

Foundry Dock Park: Using a compass for navigation, putt your way around a croquet course while learning about the Hudson Highlands and the West Point Foundry, a 19th - century technological powerhouse.

2:49 p.m. Updated My friends who are hockey players have been grinding their teeth in frustration with the lateness of the freeze here in the Hudson Highlands this winter.

Here's one of the magical kind, as conveyed beautifully this morning (breathless syntax and all) on Facebook by Jen Waldron, a mother of three who's a neighbor of mine here in the Hudson Highlands:

Environmental activists had long been fighting the trap - rock industry as it slowly dynamited sections of the palisades and Hudson Highlands.

(The event was sponsored by the Hudson Highlands Land Trust and Teatown Lake Reservation.)

Last summer, I broke a songwriting drought with «Breakneck Ridge,» essentially a hymn for the Hudson Highlands, which I've been lucky to call home since 1991.

On Sunday, I spent the afternoon accompanying my wife as she led a hike up Storm King Mountain, the imposing northern terminus of the ancient, history - rich and stunning Hudson Highlands.

The free to the public Expo was sponsored by Hudson Highlands Land Trust, a local non-profit land conservation organization, and Teatown Lake Reservation, a nature preserve and environmental education center in Westchester County and was attended by more than 350 adults and children.

The debate over the merits and risks of such research brings to mind a conversation I recently had with Pete Seeger up at his mountainside cabin here in the Hudson Highlands.

«I began planting trees on our Hudson Highlands place 35 years ago and every year my most enjoyable activity is to look at those trees.

But these Hudson Highlands will endure when we are history.

The spit had been a quarry and gravel - loading pier and, after years of efforts by local citizens, land - preservation groups and state government, now is simply a place to walk a dog and enjoy thickening, albeit viny, woods and extraordinary views of the Hudson Highlands.

Earlier this evening, I laid my tools on the cabin top of the boat on which I was working, and settled - in to watch the rust red moon crawl to the shoulders of the Hudson Highlands.

In mid-June, I was taken aback twice during a walk in the woods near our home in the Hudson Highlands.

So I'm grateful to be hunkered after the first snowfall since we moved into our old brick house in Nelsonville, N.Y., in the Hudson Highlands that I treasure (see my song above).

On our early morning dog walk in the Hudson Highlands woods near our new old home yesterday, my wife and I spotted this odd bit of Anthropocene ecology — the first ferns of spring growing in a bit of dirt inside a bottle discarded along the trail.

Sadly, there's plenty of conventional trash along the popular paths of Hudson Highlands State Park near our new old home in the village of Nelsonville, N.Y..

Hudson Highlands Veterinary Medical Group 222 Lime Kiln Road Hopewell Junction, NY 12533 845-221-2244 www.hudsonhighlandsvet.com

Mr. Tatum, who has most recently served at the Historical Society of Newburgh Bay and the Hudson Highlands, is an accomplished historian and heritage tourism expert and is experienced in development, fundraising and advocacy for public and private historic sites.

Situated atop the Shawangunk Ridge in Ulster County, the 23,000 - acre park features dozens of panoramic views of the Hudson Highlands, Catskill Mountains and the farmland of the Wallkill and Rondout Valleys.

The terrain of the county is mostly hilly, especially in the Hudson Highlands in the southwestern corner and the Taconic Mountains to the northeast.

The area along the Rockland County border (within Harriman and Bear Mountain state parks) and south of Newburgh is part of the Hudson Highlands.