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Save the Pine Bush welcomes email from our web readers. Our Save the Pine Bush volunteers will answer your email in a timely manner, usually within 24 hours. Please send us your comments and questions. To receive the best possible answers from us, please ask as specific questions as possible. Thank you so much for your interest! email Save the Pine Bush at: contact@savethepinebush.org
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Save the Pine Bush Home Page Next Dinner April 28, 2001 Welcome to Save the Pine Bush! Save the PineBush is an all- volunteer, not-for-profit organization dedicated to saving the Albany Pine Bush, a globally rare ecosystem in New York State. We stop developers by suing the government using environmental laws. The fight for Pine Bush presevation has all the elements of a good novel – except it is real. David vs. Goliath – volunteers vs. City Hall. Check out…
The Costco Public Hearing & Climate Change
GUILDERLAND: What better way to celebrate Earth Week than attending a public hearing? The Town of Guilderland Zoning Board of Appeals is holding a public hearing on giving a special use permit to Pyramid for the proposed Costco to be built near Crossgates Mall. The hearing will be held on Wednesday, April 19 at 7:00 PM at the Guilderland Town Hall, 5209 Western Tpk, Guilderland, NY. Pyramid is proposing an approximate 163,000 square feet Costco wholesale retail facility, including an…
Ask Albany County to Dedicate Funds to Buy Pine Bush
Dear All, Save the Pine Bush made a great showing at the Albany County Legislature budget hearing held two days before Thanksgiving. Seven of the eight speakers at the hearing asked for funds to buy Pine Bush. Good for us! Tomorrow, December 5, the Albany County Legislature will vote on the budget. Let’s continue our ask to the Albany County Legislature for funds to purchase the remaining privately-held properties in the Pine Bush ecosystem. Anyone can speak at…
Curry Road Solar Colonie (Eden Renewables) Proposed on 75-acres of Full Protection Lands
As much as we love solar, the Eden Renewable Solar Project in Colonie is NOT okay. Dear Save the Pine Bush Friends, Please come to the public hearing regarding the proposed Solar Farm in the Pine Bush. I have included links to the documents and maps. Thank you so much, Lynne Jackson For Save the Pine Bush Join the next fight for the Pine Bush Wednesday, June 1, 2022, at 7:00 p.m. The meeting will be held at the Town of Colonie…
Lasagna Dinners
by Lynne Jackson We all miss getting together every month to eat delicious lasagna. Covid is still with us, and probably will be with us for decades to come. Is it time for Save the Pine Bush to start thinking about getting together again to eat delicious lasagna and enjoy each other’s company? But, is the loosening of covid restrictions a good idea? On February 9, 2022, the NY Times reports that 2576 Americans died of the disease on just…
Dunn Landfill Panel Discussion Thursday, December 2, 2021 6:00 PM
When: Thursday, December 2, 6:00 PM Where: The Red Barn, East Greenbush Town Park 101-199 Town Park Road What: Panel discussion about the landfill and the upcoming permit renewal process. Moderated by Jack Conway, East Greenbush Town Supervisor Panelists include: Tony Luisi, DEC – Acting Region 4 Director Dr. David Carpenter, Public Health Physician Judith Enck, former EPA Administrator Two local citizens Question & Answer Period follows Hosted by East Greenbush Town Board Attend in person or livestream. Livestream info…
Waste Management Pulls Out of Seeking to Dump in Albany’s South End Community – Dominick Calsolaro
By Dominick Calsolaro, June/July 2021 Save the Pine Bush Newsletter ALBANY: In April, Waste Management of New York, Inc, (WM) informed residents of Albany’s South End that it was again asking the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation to approve a solid waste permit modification to allow WM to accept municipal solid waste (MSW) at its transfer station located in the Port of Albany. The facility is about 1,000 feet from Ezra Prentice Homes. MSW is putrescible waste, in other words,…
THE INTERNET: First uploaded in January, 1996, Save the Pine Bush now has a new, modern website!
Visit the site at: savethepinebush.org This new website was designed and created by volunteer Andy Arthur using WordPress. The new website will have many new features, such as multiple people can add to the site and we can now create forms. A big, big thank you goes to Andy Arthur! If you would like to add articles to the website, please email contact@savethepinebush.org. Volunteers always needed! From the April/May 2021 Save the Pine Bush Newsletter.
Stop the Landfill Expansion — Get Involved!
VILLAGE OF COLONIE: On May 3, Save the Pine Bush members met to discuss the next steps in fighting against the proposed landfill expansion in the Pine Bush and for a rational solid waste police. Village of Colonie Mayor Frank Leak graciously opened the Village of Colonie Family Recreation Center for our meeting. Mayor Leak told us of a recent visit he made to the Rapp Road landfill at the invitation of Albany County Legislators William Clay and Frank Commisso….
City Can’t Decide!
Dear Save the Pine Bush supporters, In this newsletter is a survey about your connection with Save the Pine Bush. Elisabeth Mason, our Save the Pine Bush history intern, has worked very hard this semester compiling our historical record. As part of her project and to help us out, she is conducting a survey. Please, fill it out and mail it by May 10 or bring it with you to our next dinner. Thank you so much! Lynne Jackson Dear…
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Developer to Remove $50,000 Water Lines from the Preserve Developer to Remove $50,000 Water Lines Press Releases Press Conference on Monday, August 10 at 10:00 AM Save the Pine Bush Forces Developer to Remove Water Lines from Pine Bush Preserve Land For Immediate Release: August 7, 1998 For Further Information: Please Contact: Lewis Oliver at 463-7962 or Lynne Jackson at 434-1954 PRESS CONFERENCE & PHOTO OPPORTUNITY Developer to Remove $50,000 Water Lines from Pine Bush Preserve on Monday, August…
Letter-Writing Made a Difference Your Letters Needed to Help the Karner Blue Butterfly
by Lynne Jackson, Mar./Apr. 92 The Karner Blue has been proposed to be listed as an endangered species by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. If the butterfly is listed as an endangered species with a designated critical habitat, any developments proposed within the habitat would need to have a federal permit in order to be built. Obtaining a federal permit is a much more rigorous and difficult process to go through than the zoning changes or Planning Board approvals-and…
Virtual Exhibit
What is the Pine Bush? The Pine Bush is the only sizable inland pine barrens sand dunes in the United States, and is recognized world&endash;wide as a unique pine barrens ecosystem. It contains over 300 species of vertebrate animals, over 1,500 species of plants, and over 10,000 species of insects and other invertebrate animals. Many of them are rare and restricted to the Pine Bush habitat. Its most famous occupant, the Karner Blue Butterfly, is on the Federal and State’s…
Fighting the Crossgates Expansion
Dear All, The proposed apartment complex on Rapp Road in Guilderland is back. Pyramid sold the 19 acre parcel to a local developer. This new developer has proposed some modifications to the project. The new name for the project is Apex at Crossgates. The area where the proposed apartment complex is to be built is recommended for partial protection by the Albany Pine Bush Preserve Commission. The public hearing: Wednesday, July 13 at 7:00 PMGuilderland Town Hall5209 Western TpkGuilderland, NY…
Welcome to Save the Pine Bush!
46 years of fighting for the Pine Bush John Wolcott, historian, preservationist, activist, and fierce advocate for the Pine Bush, dies at 90 ALBANY, NY: It is with great sadness that Save the Pine Bush learned of the passing of John Wolcott of Albany, NY, Thursday afternoon, August 17. John was a founding member of Save the Pine Bush in 1978. He was a plaintiff on every lawsuit filed by Save the Pine Bush. Born September 22, 1932, John passed away a few…
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