Seventy percent of New Yorkers voted for a constitutional right to clean air, clean water, and a healthful environment. Now, Governor Hochul is using the April 1 budget crisis cudgel to force the State legislature to accede to her demands that the State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA) be effectively destroyed. Governor Hochul should be … Save the Pine Bush Appalled at Governor Hochul’s Loosening of Environmental Protections

By Lynne Jackson GUILDERLAND: The Guilderland Town Board has adopted a new Comprehensive Plan for the Town. Beginning the plan update process in the fall of 2022, the Town Board adopted the Town of Guilderland Comprehensive Plan Update, November 2025. Starting last summer, members of Save the Pine Bush attended many meetings of the Guilderland … Guilderland Comprehensive Plan Update

by Alex Brownstein In Guilderland and the surrounding region we are currently seeing multiple large development proposals — including Hamilton Parc, Foundry Square, Pine Bush Parc, and Saratoga Parc. The projects themselves are separate legal entities, but public records suggest they are part of a larger development network centered around the Markstone Group and its … Developer Entities

By Tom Ellis As March ended, residents, politicians and corporations were engaged in a major tug-of-war over New York State’s energy policy while largely ignoring the dire accelerating ecological crisis of the Earth. During March, the Green Education and Legal Fund reported: “Several years ago, the UN Secretary General warned that the slow action by … NY’s Energy Policy

by Tom Ellis HUDSON FALLS, NY: Residents of the Village of Hudson Falls are making huge strides to close the 35-year-old Wheelabrator trash incinerator that has plagued their community 45 miles north of Albany. Organizing began in earnest following a June 10, 2024 two-a-half-hour incinerator fire that no fire trucks responded to. Nine days later … Breathe Free Hudson Falls

by Lynne Jackson GUILDERLAND: Pine Bush Parc, LLC, is proposing to build 210 apartments on eleven acres of Pine Bush that is recommended for Full Protection in Guilderland. Though the Pine Bush preserve now protects about 3500 acres of Pine Bush ecosystem, there are still about 1,795 acres of privately-owned Pine Bush ecosystem in danger … Apartments Proposed for Pine Bush Recommended for Full Protection

by Tom Ellis ALBANY: Schenectady County Historical Society Historian and Director of Education Michael Diana spoke at the October 29, 2025 Save the Pine Bush dinner. His topic was Uncover the Pine Bush’s Hidden History. Mr. Diana grew up in Guilderland and attended Pine Bush Elementary School. He said the pine bush was mostly untouched … Uncovering the Pine Bush’s Hidden History

Save the Pine Bush Newsletter – Unveiling of the Sign for the John Wolcott Pine Bush Hikers’ Underpass The Altamont Enterprise – Wolcott honored with sign at underpass to connect people and wildlife to pine bush (Archived) Senator Pat Fahy on X – “John Wolcott was the Albany Pine Bush Preserve’s most ardent, passionate defender … In the news: The John Wolcott Hiker’s Underpass sign is revealed!

The Altamont Enterprise — Michael Koff – Monday, October 13, 2025 “He was willing to stand up and speak for what he believed in even when he got persecuted at times,” says Jerry Riverstone of John Wolcott as Christopher Hawver, the executive director of the Pine Bush Commission, center, straightens a sign picturing Wolcott. A … The Altamont Enterprise: Wolcott honored with sign at underpass to connect people and wildlife to pine bush

by Tom Ellis – October 2025 Newsletter Many people remember the July 4-5 central Texas floods that killed more than 100 and left ever more missing. Some are blaming the high death toll on 2025 cutbacks to federal agencies that disabled the ability of professional staff to communicate fast changing weather information to those who … We are living dangerously with the Trump Presidency

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by Lynne Jackson – October 2025 Newsletter Recently, Save the Pine Bush volunteers have been attending many public hearings, most for proposed developments in the Pine Bush, and a few for the Guilderland Comprehensive Plan. In Colonie, there have been several proposals to build warehouses on small parcels of land. Individually, these warehouse proposals seem … Public Hearings and Development Proposals in the Pine Bush

By Madi Kennedy – October 2025 Newsletter In my life, as time marches on everything speeds up so fast that there’s times that I wonder where the meaning in life is. Working, earning, eating, taking care of my family day-by-day, all while living in a world that feels like it’s on fire can lead to … Acts of Service Save Me in a World on Fire: Why Volunteer with Save the Pine Bush?

by Alex Brownstein – October 2025 This November, New Yorkers have the option to vote YES on Proposition 1. Doing so means protecting wildlands while keeping one of the Adirondacks’ historic treasures, Mount Van Hoevenberg, open for world-class sports and community pride. The deal is straightforward: the Olympic facility near Lake Placid can continue to … Vote Yes on Prop 1: A Win for Adirondacks and New Yorkers

by Lynne Jackson – October 2025 Newsletter ALBANY: On October 8, 2025, the sign for the John Wolcott Pine Bush Hikers’ Underpass was unveiled at an event organized by NYS Senator Pat Fahy’s office. Chris Hawver, executive director of the Albany Pine Bush Preserve Commission, opened the event by welcoming everyone and noting that if … Unveiling of the Sign for the John Wolcott Pine Bush Hikers’ Underpass

by Tom Ellis – October 2025 Newsletter ALBANY: Retired DEC endangered species biologist Al Hicks spoke at the April 30, 2025 Save the Pine Bush dinner at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Albany. His topic was Musings of a Wildlife Biologist. Al said he knew the Pine Bush was a special place the first time … Musings of a Wildlife Biologist

by John Cryan When I was a kid breeding exotic giant silkmoths from all over the world, I found out among the true obsessives in the business (yes, there was an active, and at that time wholly unregulated, global trade in the biggest and most spectacular; little Buck Moths generally weren’t part of this) that … A Universal Theory of Disease (Chaonic-Convolutionary, of course)

by John Cryan – November 22, 2022 God was a southpaw when Hre threw out that first superchaonic pitch. Hris dexterous move with the hand sinister led to an initially ‘perfect’ Right-Handed Universe that spun just this side of infinitely fast on a near-perfect axis like a perfect SuperEarth with virtually no wobble or tilt. … The Spinning Universe

by John Cryan The UN Charter contains a flaw fatal. Its Security Council has five ‘permanent members,’ any of which can veto any action in either the Council or the General Assembly. Two of those five members are brutal dictatorships armed with nuclear weapons. One has the largest landmass of any country, the other the … Creating a UN with Teeth

by John Cryan Chaonic Spinout If a chaon gets separated from the spacetime matrix, it dies. This happens often when a chaon reaches the limits of spacetime bound in a photon. Disengaged from its fellow chaons, the photon breaks apart. The individual freed chaons each spin out to infinity, losing all energy, and vanish. They … SUBQUANTUM PHYSICS: Fundamental Chaonic Physics for Creating New Chaonic Maths

By John Cryan James Cameron’s 2009 film Avatar has established and held the global box office record for many years. It resonated with audiences of all ages all over the world, chiefly because it brought to visible life the intricate interconnections of a mythological Gaia. A living planet where nothing happened without affecting everything, and … Our Place in the World

by John Cryan The chaonic policy papers UN II and Chaons and Nukes lay out the only path to denuclearization. It ends with making illegal the possession of uranium or any other radioactive element, and enforcing it. We are in position to do this now, by possessing cheap enough batteries and renewable forms of power. … The First Non-nuclear Superpower

By John Cryan Neutrinos, those tiniest of ‘known’ ‘fundamental’ particles, have lately hogged quite a bit of the news from physics and astronomy. First came the announcement that there is a ‘cosmic neutrino background’ to go along with the cosmic microwave background found earlier. Both are supposed to be actual living leftovers of the original … Neutrinos, Nodal Bias, and Numerical Divination

by John Cryan – August 12, 2021 Scary things happen when you combine Moths of the Past with Top-Down Tectonics Jon Thoreau Scott’s Top-Down Tectonics: The Role of Oceanus and Gaia (2015) explains for the third time in print his Expansion-Contraction Theory, a new theory of plate tectonics Scott derived over thirty years ago. Cryan … Mothtectonics

By John Cryan – April 19, 2023 I was forced to retire early in mid-2015. My wife, Christina, had had open-chest surgery the year before, and though she made it through that, she was never the same afterwards. I moved upstate full-time to care for her in the cabin we’d built together over the previous … The Genesis and Meaning of Moths of the Past

by John Cryan – February 19, 2022 I’ll start off with the easiest option to dispose of. I’ve read a bit about ongoing efforts to kindle fusion here on Earth. As an energy-producing proposition, they are doomed to fail. The reason is simple: It takes the energy density of sun-sized chaonic gravity to sustain atomic … Energy in the Chaonic Universe: Transforming the Human Economy

By John Cryan – November 11, 2024 As described in the longest of the previous ten white papers presenting implications and extensions of the Chaon-Convolution Theory, entitled Creating New Science Out of the Old (now affectionately known as ‘Big Imps’), the biggest obstacle to doing good science (which is science that lasts, that sticks with … Decoherence: Advancing Science in the Chaonic Age

The Karner Blue Butterfly barely survives along the St Croix River yet made a major comeback in the Albany Pine Bush! by Madeline Kennedy Ontario scientist Laurence Packer described the disappearance of the Karner Blues from his Canadian province which happened after a long hot and dry spell. The butterflies went from having a “large … Is there hope for the Endangered Karner Blue?

Editor’s note: I am astounded at how much money Pyramid has been given by our government. A big thanks to the Altamont Enterprise for this excellent story. Read the entire article by subscribing to the Altamont Enterprise, the best newspaper in the Capital District. Thursday, March 27, 2025 – 18:57 – The Enterprise — Michael … Pyramid turns down IDA tax break for Costco

by Lynne Jackson COLONIE AND GUILDERLAND – Its spring, so, it is construction season in the Pine Bush. The Town of Colonie has seen a number of proposed warehouses in the Pine Bush. The most recent proposal is 2889 Curry Road, Colonie. Though this parcel is small, about 1.7 acres, it is bounded on the … Proposed Developments in the Pine Bush

THE INTERNET: On the Save the Pine Bush website you can find two useful tools for tracking and analyzing proposed developments in Pine Bush. The agenda tracker checks the websites of the City of Albany, Town of Colonie, Village of Colonie and Town of Guilderland and automatically downloads them from their websites. It then converts … Save the Pine Bush Mapper

Podcast recorded at our September 2024 Dinner … John Cryan on Saving the Pine Bush All Over Again John Cryan, entomologist and co-founder of the Long Island Pine Barrens Society, spoke about how we have battled preservation to a standoff; we have a preserve, but it’s in pieces and fragments, and still too small. Development … John Cryan on Ecology and the Pine Bush

by John Cryan Chaonic physics drives every force and process in the Universe. This includes all forms of biological Convolution. And human cultures – which form wherever people come together, then interact, accrete through compound compositing, and decay through many interwoven processes linked to free chaonic action – are subject to the same principles of … Cultural Convolution

By John CryanSeptember 20, 2023 There has been enormous resistance to the idea that we have to drop our global population by one full order of magnitude in order to have even a chance to continue as civilized human beings. This is only natural. It is our deepest wired-in evolutionary survival strategy: Over-reproduction in the … The Convolution Casino: Underpinning the Triangle of Survival

by John Cryan~ June 9, 2023 ~ The Arrow of Time waits for no one. Events are The Triangle of Peace starting to get past this old man in the woods. So I am sending this missive to all of you because it cannot wait until I have more time to think. . . BIOSPHERE … Chaons and Tech: Our Future is Limited

By John Cryan ~ September 3, 2023 ~ In The Chaonic Economy, the concept of effective body size was introduced. The same concept applies to politics. Politics, culture and economics are completely intertwined. Chaons rule them all. The standard continuum of politics runs left-right. Instead of being a linear dualistic paradox, though, it runs in … The Third Way: Chaons and Politics

by John Cryan ~ April 30, 2023 ~ A committee convened by the Lawrence Livermore Lab, famous as one of the historic technological ‘hot’ spots in the US for prosecuting the Cold War, just came out with a 77-page report. The committee of nuclear weapons and diplomacy experts used mock-continuous analyses of streams of publicly … Chaons and Nukes

by John Cryan Despite living in a nodally-perceived world, we humans do, subconsciously at least, occasionally truck in very primitive forms of continua. The most familiar are scales based on our hands: binaries or dualities (two hands) like bad or good; five-star rating scales, made ubiquitous by the internet (one hand’s worth of fingers); and … Chaons and Evil

by John Cryan The economy sits on top of the ecology, and draws all its energy and materials from it. The ecology, or biosphere, wraps around the planet. The planet was formed and exists in the physical universe, or expanding spacetime. What we call chemistry is part of physics. So is what we call biology. … The Chaonic Economy or The Basis of All Wealth is the Biosphere

Some Important Implications of the Chaon-Convolution Theory by John Cryan Anyone who has studied the history of science even casually knows science is not magic. It takes hardwork, discipline, organization, persistence, communication, resources, and luck. And students of science are increasingly revealing the human elements, and consequent flaws, of the enterprise – as it was, … Making New Science Emerge from the Old

Published in the Altamont Enterprise on Thursday, August 22, 2024 GUILDERLAND — A developer is asking an Albany County court to void paperwork for a potential land deal that could possibly spoil any future transactions for the property after the prospective buyer welched on the sales agreement. On Aug. 6, a lawsuit filed by Pine … Suit filed over multi-million dollar Guilderland property deal gone awry

Some of our Save the Pine Bush members need a ride to the dinner! What we especially need is someone to drive one of our members who has allergies to animals and fragrance. If you have no pets, don’t wear perfume and would like to help out, please email contact@savethepinebush.org. Thank you!

Monday, September 23, 2024, 7:00 pm Guilderland Public Library, 2228 Western Ave, Guilderland, Helderberg Meeting Room This announcement from our good friends in Guilderland: Guilderland Coalition for Responsible Growth (GCRG) will be holding its first in person meeting since the Pandemic! We are excited to see folks in person and hope that you can join … Guilderland Coalition for Responsible Growth Meeting in Person!

Monday, September 16, 7:00pm – 9:00pm Guilderland Public Library, 2228 Western Ave, Guilderland, Helderberg Meeting Room This program will explain the extent of the plastic pollution crisis, what we can do aobut it, and what is possible through legislation. By focusing on reduction and reuse – the first to “R’s” – we can make an … The Plastic Crisis: Turning Off the Tap with David Sayer

by Lynne Jackson GUILDERLAND: As I prepare this newsletter for mailing, I note a public hearing will be held on Wednesday, September 11 at 7:00 PM in regards to 2711 Curry Road in Guilderland. The hearing will be held in Guilderland Town Hall 5209 Western Turnpike, Guilderland, NY, The applicant is “only” requesting a two-lot … Pine Bush Being Eaten Away Bit by Bit

by Tom Ellis ALBANY, NY: Neil Gifford, longtime Albany Pine Bush Preserve Commission (Commission) Conservation Director, spoke at the May 15, 2024 Save the Pine Bush virtual meeting on the topic of Restoring Pine Bush Ecosystem Health through Management. As always, Neil was a wealth of information on a variety of topics and expressed warm … How is the Pine Bush? The Commission Gives an Update

by Lynne Jackson ALBANY: We are very much looking forward to seeing everyone in September! Our monthly vegetarian/vegan lasagna dinners were brought to a halt in March, 2020 with the covid pandemic. During the pandemic we tried other ways of getting together including Zoom meetings, some of which were accompanied with to-go dinners when We … Getting Together Again

Meet at: 53 Rapp Road Albany, NY 12203 – Open Space – Seating is limited, lawn chairs are welcomed For More Information: albanyrrha@gmail.com Join Association for a walk-through history to learn about one of the first African American settlements in Albany. The Rapp Road Historic District in Albany, New York is unique nationally and in … Rapp Road Historical Association’s Walking Tour – Saturday, October 5 at 11:00