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Protectors of Pine Oak Woods • Current Issues |
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Current Issues
Protectors
Supports Funding Protectors of Pine Oak Woods supports appropriating $3 million from National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration Coastal and Estuarine Land conservation Program for the preservation of Long Pond/Butler Woods in New York. Conservation of these two properties will ensure the protection of important coastal wetlands and the availability of open space, recreational opportunity, and public access to the shore of Raritan Bay.
Sharrotts
Road Shorelands Area Deserves Protection Protectors of Pine Oak Woods heartily endorses efforts to preserve as open
space the areas of the Sharrotts Road Shorelands and Port Mobile Swamp Forest
and Tidal Wetlands nominated by The Trust for Public Land for open space
preservation.
Amundsen Trailway
Bikeway Axed for Disastrous Greenbelt Alternative In a sleight-of-hand trick worthy of Robert Moses, our mayor and borough
president have quietly shifted federal funding away from a bikeway planned
for the Amundsen Trailway and incompetently carved one in the middle of the
Protectors of Pine Oak Woods has voted against supporting a wrong-headed
Speedway project for Staten Island for all the good reasons you’ve come
up with, and then some.
Charleston Woods/Kreischer Hill Under The Gun A major development is pitting a shopping mall against a unique 130-acre ecosystem sheltering a globally rare plant and other endangered species. Which side are you coming out for?
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