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April 2010
Dear Friends:
We have a lot of great news to share with you this
month as well as some wonderful upcoming events. We
hope to see you at some of these events and hope you
are enjoying this beautiful spring weather!
Celebrate Earth Day with the OCLT!
Volunteers needed to help clean up Monroe Racetrack, a
historic site forever protected with a conservation
easement held by the OCLT!
Sat, April 24 10:30-12:30
Meet at
the Monroe DPW parking lot off of Maple Street in the
Village of Monroe.
Volunteers will help remove litter
and plant trees along a tributary of the Ramapo
River.
In other news this month:
Orange County Land Trust’s Annual
Benefit Reception and Silent Auction will be
held on Friday, June 4 beginning at 5:30 pm at Falkirk
Estate Country Club in Central Valley. Help us
protect valuable natural areas and working farmland in
Orange County! Join our Benefit
Committee or consider a Business Sponsorship
of this very well attended event. Silent Auction items
are also welcome! For more information, including
tickets, visit www.oclt.org. The OCLT is excited to begin breaking ground on
three urban community gardens in Newburgh,
Middletown and Port Jervis! Thank you to our funding
partners- NYS DEC, Land Trust Alliance, Middletown
Industrial Development Agency (IDA), Orange County
Department of Health, Port Jervis Community
Development Agency, and Orange County Agriculture and
Farmland Protection Board, as well as Botanical
Interests, Inc. of Broomfield, Colorado for their
donation of organic seeds. We look forward to working
with our city residents, the Master Gardeners of
Cornell Cooperative Extension, Healthy Orange,
Middletown Housing Authority, and local Boy Scouts who
will help build raised beds.
The OCLT is pleased to be featured in “Rx:
Nature as Nurturer- Protecting Land to Protect Human
Health” in the spring 2010 issue of Saving
Land, a publication of the national Land Trust
Alliance. The OCLT is commended for leading the
effort to preserve Arrow Park, for our urban community
gardens projects, and our work developing a
handicapped access rail trail at Hamptonburgh
Preserve. Read the full article at www.landtrustalliance.org/about-us/saving-
land/spring-2010/spring-2010 We had a great turnout at our Vernal Pool
Workshop at Laurel Hill Preserve in Minisink as
well as our Schunnemunk Mountain Hike! We hope
you can join us for our next scheduled outing:
Sat, April 24 at 10
am- Slippery Slimy
Salamander Walk at Fuller Mountain Preserve,
Warwick
For the Land,
Your friends at Orange County Land Trust
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