The Four Corners

It's Good for You

Tom Andersen — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:39:08 -0400

Is open space good for your mental health and outlook? This study from the Netherlands seems to indicate that it is.

Land Sale in Harrison

Tom Andersen — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 09:47:45 -0400

What is the effect on land preservation of the recession and the difficulty towns are having balancing their budgets? One answer can be found in Harrison, where the town wants to sell 14 undeveloped acres it owns to raise cash.

Pine Croft Biodiversity

Tom Andersen — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 10:12:42 -0400

A team of local scientists has found 140 different species at the Pine Croft Preserve in Lewisboro.

$5 Million Easement

Tom Andersen — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 09:31:53 -0400

Bernards, New Jersey, has voted to buy a conservation easement that includes public access for $5 million.

For Sale

Tom Andersen — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 09:51:56 -0400

Even when I lived in the Adirondacks, 30 years ago, Follensby Pond was iconic -- a remote lake with both wilderness and poetry at its heart. Ralph Waldo Emerson, James Russell Lowell, Louis Agassiz and others of the Boston intellectual elite camped there in 1858, and their host, William James Stillman, underwent some truly mystical experiences, if his book, The Autobiography of a Journalist, is to be believed.

Livability

Tom Andersen — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 09:59:48 -0400

The Regional Plan Association released a report yesterday with recommendations for ways to make six communities in Westchester County and Connecticut more livable.

Down on the Farm

Tom Andersen — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 11:21:51 -0400

Locally-grown food is all the rage among the cognoscenti. The Journal News has a story today (here) that sketches out the trend and profiles a handful of farms in Westchester.

Terrapins on the Runway

Tom Andersen — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:24:54 -0400

We're big turtle fans here at Westchester Land Trust -- we have spotted, box, wood, musk, painted and snapping on land we've protected, and we spent weeks a few years ago trying to find bog turtles in a fen we thought a likely spot.

Cone & Boies on the Hill

Tom Andersen — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 11:42:25 -0400

We were amused to read the other day that the list of witnesses scheduled to testify at the Senate's hearings on Sonia Sotomayor's nomination to the Supreme Court included one of our favorite former pitchers (David Cone, Mets 1987-1991 and Yankees (1996-2001) and one of our favorite Westchester Land Trust Board members, Mary Boies.

Bobolinks

Tom Andersen — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:58:16 -0400

Landowners in North Salem are helping protect the breeding grounds of our area's last remaining bobolinks.