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Untitled Document Home Virtual Presentation June 17, 2020 Hike the Pine Bush Current Newsletter June/July Podcasts Donate Landfill & SWMP Information Action Alert Hotel Info Sally’s Recycling Corner Subscribe to SPB List Action Alerts Court Cases Newsletters by Subject Newsletters by Date Newspaper Articles Speakers List The Karner Blue Nabokov Fire! Virtual Exhibit Cartoons About SPB Volunteer Our Friends: FORCE Historic Action Network Friends of Stanford Home Protest Photos Links Letters to SPB Join Mailing List Contact Welcome to Save…

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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…

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Bring us Your Rummage! SPB Rummage and Bake Sale! Saturday, October 4 from 9 to 4 pm* 1501 Siver Road, Guilderland. Corner of Siver and Lydius Streets. Buy great stuff! And, we will accept donations of rummage from September 12 to October 3. Call Sandra Camp (456-4640) for details on where to drop off your rummage, if you need some picked up, or if you would like to volunteer. We need lots of volunteers and rummage sales are lots of…

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AUDUBON’S ENDANGERED SPECIES WORKSHOP and Save the Pine Bush Audubon’s Endangered Species Workshop Five Rivers Environmental Education Center Delmar, New York Saturday, November 22, 1997 AGENDA 9:30 a.m. Registration & Refreshments 9:45 a.m.   Welcome and Overview David Gibson, Capital Region Audubon 10:00 a.m. The Endangered Species Act History & Current Status in Congress Kathleen Rogers, Endangered Species Campaign National Audubon Society 10:30 a.m. How the Endangered Species Act works in New York State Peter Nye, Endangered Species Unit of…

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Save the Pine Bush Current Hikes, Walks and Ski Trips Hike Along the East End of Snake Ridge in the Pine Bush Saturday, October 25, 1997 Meet at 10:15 am at the Campus Circle Bus Stop, SUNYA campus, 1400 Washington Ave. Albany. For information, call John Wolcott at 465-8930. Hike leaders will be Burt Shou and Claire Nolan Shou. The public is cordially invited to attend. For more information, please email pinebush@aol.com Return to Save the Pine Bush Home Page…

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Recent Court Cases State Employees Federal Credit Union Save the Pine Bush Wins – SEFCU To Move Away, Feb/Mar 02 Avila House Senior Housing, located behind Teresian House on Washington Avenue Extension Save the Pine Bush Sues Over Senior Housing in the Pine Bush – Proposed Project to be built behind Teresian House, Dec 01/Jan 02 Save the Pine Bush – Loses Teresian House Case, May/June 02 Charlie Touhey & 300 Washington Avenue Extension Save the Pine Bush Loses a…

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A Brief Historical Note on the Six Mile Waterworks (Rensselaer Lake), July/Aug 96 New Light on an Old Road – Part I, Mar/Apr 98 New Light on an Old Road – Part II, June/July 98 Pushing and Pulling West – Pending Extensions of the Boundaries of the Pine Bush Preserve, Oct/Nov 99 State Recognizes The Promised Land – Re-printed from the Altamont Enterprise, 9/19/02 Oct/Nov 02 Early Reference to the Pine Bush Discovered in the Dutch Records of Beverwyck, Dec…

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Coyotes in the Moonlight Coyotes in the Moonlight Response to the Commission’s Final Implementation Guidelines by Lynne Jackson "It was a cold night in January, snow on the ground, full moon, not a creature moving a muscle," began Jerry Mueller, at the January Lasagna Dinner. He had to get out of the house and decided to take a walk in the Pine Bush, off Sand Creek Road near the Northway. He heard a noise, "Sounds like coyotes," thought Jerry. Heard…

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  Everybody Wants One -Preservation Plan Makes Waves – Feb/Mar 94 Sprawl Raises Taxes – The Myth Of The Expanding Tax Base, Feb/Mar 1999 485B – Promoting Destruction of the Pine Bush through Tax Deductions! Feb/Mar 1999 The Portland Plan – A Better Way To Grow -July/Aug 1999 Well, How About Here? Can We Plan the Capital District? -July/Aug 1999 UAlbany Plan Adds to Sprawl — Reprinted from the Times Union Sunday, July 8, 2001, July 01 Sprawl Kills –…

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A clean-up of the Woodlawn Preserve is being planned for June 19. Watch this space for more details. For more information on Woodlawn, see past newsletter articles: City Owned Land Up for Grabs, Pine Bush in Schenectady threatened by development, May/June 03 City of Schenectady Considers Selling Pine Bush for Development, June 03 Speak Out for Pine Bush Preservation – Public Hearing, Monday, July 14 at 7:30 PM, Schenectady City Hall, Jul/Aug 03 Woodlawn and the Western Pine Bush: Next…

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