FrOGS news
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- January
- 24
The Friends of the Great Swamp’s Spring 2007 newsletter is out. The group advocates for the protection of a massive wetland that sprawls across Putnam and Dutchess counties.
The newsletter includes several tidbits.
One item is the results of a fish study done in the Great Swamp that was recently published in a scientific journal.
The study concluded that forests, as opposed to other land cover, protect the diversity of fish in a stream and maintaining 100-meter buffers along forested streams helps lessen the impacts of development.
Plus, there’s FrOGS annual board meeting on Sunday, which will include a visit from Atka. She’s an Arctic gray wolf from the Wolf Conservation Center in South Salem. The program will include information about the history of wolves in the U.S.
The meeting starts at 1:45 p.m. at the Patterson Recreation Center, 65 Front St. Atka is expected at 2:15 p.m. For more information about the meeting, call Evelyn at 845-877-6498.
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Journal News staff writer Greg Clary writes Earth Watch, reporting on environmental issues in the lower Hudson region. Clary has been a reporter, editor and columnist at the Journal News since 1988 and has covered police and courts, transportation, municipal government, development and the environment in the Lower Hudson Valley, among other topics. 
Laura Incalcaterra covers the environment, open space and zoning and planning issues for The Journal News. A Boston College graduate, Laura grew up in Rockland, attended East Ramapo schools and has worked for The Journal News since 1993. Laura has written features and covered North Rockland, crime, government and a host of other issues.
Mike Risinit covers Patterson and Kent in Putnam County, as well as environmental topics touching on the Hudson River and the Great Swamp. Risinit has been a reporter at The Journal News since 1998.
