One million dollars is available to help municipalities and not-for-profit groups get rid of terrestrial invasive species. The state Department of Environmental Conservation is making the money available and accepting applications until Halloween.
“Invasive species are non-native species that can cause harm to the environment and may result in ecological or economic problems. Some terrestrial invasive [...]

“You could choke a hog with that fish” is actually how the hogchoker, a flat, bottom-dwelling fish found up and down the East Coast, got its name.

Farmers used to feed the fish to their livestock. The small fish’s rough scales could cause them to get stuck in an animal’s throat and lead to [...]

Only three kinds of poisonous snakes occur naturally in New York, according to SUNY’s College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse. Those would be the copperhead, the massasauga and the timber rattler.

Timber rattlesnakes are active from late April until mid-October, according to the state Department of Environmental Conservation. Active enough, anyways, to stow away [...]

The Westchester Land Trust and a couple of other land preservation organizations with local ties have been recognized by the independent Land Trust Accreditation Commission. The announcements were made this past weekend at a Land Trust Alliance conference in Pittsburgh. Only 39 land trusts across the country were awarded accreditation.

One of the things they don’t cover in driver-education classes (at least the ones I sat through oh so long ago) is what to do when you encounter a moose on the interstate.

For the drivers who did last night on northbound 684 in Goldens Bridge, there wasn’t much they could do. Big, dark-colored animal, nighttime [...]

Do you have some hungry birds in your yard come fall and winter? Do you like to feed your feathered friends? Then check out the information after the break.

Quick. Hurry. You may have only a few more minutes of summer 2008 left. Fall arrives at 11:44 a.m. today, when the sun crosses the equator on its way south.

Along with shortening days, lengthening nights and colorful leaves, another sign of the season is the presence of wild celery on the shores of the Hudson [...]

The Nature Conservancy yesterday purchased 14,600 acres of solitude in the Adirondacks, land that will eventually be bought by the state and added to the Adirondack Park.

From The Nature Conservancy:
“The Nature Conservancy today announces its purchase of Follensby Pond in New York’s Adirondack Mountains. This 14,600-acre property of mixed northern hardwood forests borders the state’s [...]

One of the ways I know summer is coming to an end is when I see a crowd of goldfinches hopping around on the spent black-eyed Susans and purple coneflowers in the front garden. As they bob back and forth on a flower, they use their pointed bills to chisel out the seeds for a [...]

It’s not beeping cars and trucks but it is traffic, whale traffic that is just outside New York Harbor. Using acoustical equipment, researchers have determined that whales pass by as close as 13 miles to the harbor and near Fire Island. The project is explained here and here’s a story in yesterday’s NYT. The newspaper [...]