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Soil and Water Conservation District Tree & Shrub Sale Underway

February 3, 2012 By Leave a Comment

(Madison, NY – Jan. 2012) Spring may be a few months away, but the Madison County Conservation District is already thinking green with its annual 2012 Tree and Shrub Seedling Sale. This year’s sale features a variety of trees and shrubs to fit all kinds of landscaping needs.

Many of the species are ideal for erosion control and many are attractive uses for wildlife food and cover, windscreens, shade, and privacy.

There are 27 different varieties of trees and shrubs offered along with fruit trees, strawberries, ground cover, and variety packs. All of these trees and shrubs are bare root, not balled and sold in bundles of 10 or more.

People interested in ordering can visit the district’s Web site at madcoswcd.com for an order form or can call (315) 824-9849 ext.3. Orders with cash or check payment are due by March 23, and the plants will be available for pickup April 12 at the district’s pole barn at the USDA Service Center in Madison.

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Bring your Growler!

January 29, 2012 By Leave a Comment

 

Going Green

By Jim Bona

(Hamilton, NY – Jan. 2012) There has been a buzz lately about some local gas stations selling growlers of beer.  (Sorry for the bad pun….I couldn’t resist).

Growlers are glass jugs used to transport draft beer to be consumed at home, rather than being bottled and capped.  (They are half a gallon capacity, which is about the same amount in a six pack. It is said that the word derives from the sound that is made by the carbonation of the beer escaping through the gasket that seals the container).

Some people are upset that beer sold at gas stations, in this type of container, is thought to be more easily obtained by under-aged drinkers. That is not the point of this article, although beer has been bought and sold at gas stations in bottle and can six and twelve packs for many, many years. Why all of a sudden that beer in a new type of package would be setting off alarms is different, to say the least.

My point is that selling beer in growlers is very green. Individual bottles, with all the accompanying expenditures of time, money and energy associated with distributing the beer, are definitely not as green. Even if the used bottles are cleaned and refilled, which is more green than recycling them, it is still more expensive.  Although there may be some cost to transporting a keg, it is way less than moving cases and cases of beer bottles and cans.  No deposit to deal with, either. No accumulating cans and bottles to be returned to get the deposit back. Anyone who has had to load the car to bring back empties of any sort knows the bother that can be.  So, growlers look to be a great solution for the age-old problem of the 5 cent deposit.

There are some drawbacks, though. Since the carbonation of the beer only lasts for maybe three days in a growler after you open it, you have to be sure that you are going to consume it all, within that timeframe. (It can sit in the fridge unopened for longer). This might be difficult if you just have one glass a day. It would work better if you knew you were going to have some friends over, and there would be little or no leftover to go flat.

There used to be a deli down the street that sold growlers, but they closed the business.  Luckily, though, a new brewery has just opened up in town. Right now, they are only selling growlers (and kegs to local bars) but may be bottling soon. Growlers are definitely the way to go. Just like any other type of alcohol, your bottles MUST remain sealed until you get home, no matter how impatient or thirsty you might be.

Jim Bona is a technician at Colgate and passionate about all things green. He can be reached at jbona@mail.colgate.edu.

 

 

 

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God Wouldn’t Approve of Hydraulic Fracturing

January 24, 2012 By 1 Comment

Editor’s Note: Due to the large volume of incorrect information circulating on the topic of natural gas development, authors of letters to the editor on the subject should define their terms – high-volume hydraulic fracturing versus low-volume hydraulic fracturing – and also cite the sources for the information used in the body of the message. For more information, feel free to contact Managing Editor Martha E. Conway at (315) 813.0124 Monday through Friday after 12:30 p.m. or weekends.

To the Editor:

(Canastota, NY – Jan. 2012) Hydrofrackers get off God’s land. Gas drilling produces millions of gallons of contaminated flowback fluid daily. This contaminated waste water is stored in huge air-pollution, asthma-producing waste pits before being hauled away.

In the town of Lincoln, Madison County, there are 24 leases with the gas companies, and there are plenty of waste pits included in these leases. Many of these leases border fresh water sources.

The diesel rigs for hydrofracking are already coming through our town. How many gas leases with waste pits are there in our community?

Methane, benzene, toluene, total dissolved solids, chlorides, phosphorus and metals including arsenic and manganese, as well as radioactive materials are commonly found in the by-product of gas drilling.

Open waste pits are not banned in New York state. Recovered drilling mud contains drill cuttings from the shale, which, by definition, have elevated levels of radioactivity. The following gas companies are involved in the town of Lincoln: RV Curll & Associates, Ardent Resources, Inc,; Salt City Resources, LLC; and New York Shale Gas, LLC.

“I brought you into a fertile land to eat its fruit and rich produce. But you came and defiled my land and you made my inheritance detestable” Jeremiah 2:7.

Judy McConnell-Steffen, Canastota

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Madison County Solid Waste Dep’t Releases Promotional Video

January 22, 2012 By Leave a Comment

(Madison County, NY – Jan. 19, 2012) The Madison County Department of Solid Waste has just released a new promotional video called Madison County Renewable Energy Projects.

“We wanted something that could be used as a promotional tool for the Madison County Industrial Development Agency (IDA) to encourage new businesses to relocate to our proposed Agricultural Renewable Energy Park (ARE) and to take advantage of the low cost green energy being produced at the Buyea Road Landfill site,” explained Director James A. Zecca. “We also wanted a product that could be used as an educational tool by our County Recycling Coordinator Sharon A. Driscoll.”

Several features that make the ARE Park a level above other business parks include, low cost green energy i.e. heat and electricity; low cost land for development and the close proximity to the New York State Thruway.

“Development of the ARE Park will put land back on the County and town tax rolls, and create new jobs for the residents of Madison County,” said John M. Becker, chairman of the Madison County Board of Supervisors.

The new video touts the promotion of green energy at the County’s landfill, citing the gas-to-energy facility that takes advantage of the methane gas produced naturally in the landfill and turning it into low cost electricity and heat for proposed businesses and the new solar array that supplies electricity to the Madison-Cortland ARC Recycling Center.

The green energy projects now located at the County landfill have sparked the interest of a number of area colleges and neighboring government agencies. Educational tours of the site are on the rise, according to Driscoll.

The video, produced by Acumen Media, is now on YouTube and can be found if you type in the search space, Madison County Renewable Energy Project. The video can also be viewed on the Madison County Web site madisoncounty.ny.gov.

 

 

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What’s the Rush?

January 21, 2012 By 1 Comment

 

Think Local

By Chris Hoffman

(Sherburne, NY – Jan. 2012) In November 2011, Clean Technica reported that a company called HyperSolar had filed a patent application for a breakthrough technology that creates renewable natural gas from sunlight, water and carbon dioxide.

HyperSolar’s press release stated that this renewable natural gas is a clean, carbon neutral methane gas that can be used as a direct replacement for traditional natural gas to power the world, without drilling or fracking, while mitigating CO2 emissions.

Inspired by the photosynthetic processes that plants use to effortlessly harness the power of the sun to create energy molecules, the company’s solar-powered nanoparticle system mimics photosynthesis to separate hydrogen from water. Free hydrogen particles are then reacted with carbon dioxide to produce methane.

Nanoparticles work in a water based solution to produce clean and environmentally friendly renewable natural gas that can be collected for use in power plants, industrial plants and vehicles – anywhere and anytime.

The company is currently focusing on commercializing this breakthrough technology that uses low cost manufacturing techniques, nanostructure innovations for high efficiency, and freely available sunlight, wastewater and carbon dioxide to produce hydrogen and methane.

HyperSolar’s CEO Tim Young explains the process: “For almost a century, scientists have tried and failed to ‘split water’ cost effectively to produce hydrogen and oxygen.  Our process does not produce oxygen, which has no significant value and is an expensive and slow reaction. Unlike conventional electrolysis, where hydrogen and oxygen atoms are completely disassociated using a large voltage, we designed our reactions to use a very small voltage and only produce hydrogen.

“By elegantly engineering the reaction kinetics toward hydrogen generation in conjunction with wastewater, our nanoparticles function as one-way machines that detoxify wastewater and produce clean water and pure hydrogen in the presence of sunlight.  No other energy source is required, making this an extremely economical and commercially viable approach to hydrogen production – hence, renewable natural gas production.

“The whole process occurs at a normal temperature and pressure.  To achieve world scale operation, HyperSolar envisions very inexpensive reactors installed on vacant, non-productive land, producing massive amounts of carbon neutral methane that can be piped into the existing natural gas infrastructure for everyday use in homes, power plants, factories, and vehicles.

”With hundreds of billions of dollars already invested in natural gas infrastructure and trillions more dollars on the way, we believe natural gas as a primary fuel is a reality. However, the environmental risks associated with the extraction and usage of conventional natural gas is also a reality. Using advanced nanotechnology, HyperSolar intends to eliminate the harmful aspects of extracting natural gas and preserve its existing delivery infrastructure and economy by fundamentally changing the source of natural gas from underground to above ground … in a renewable and sustainable manner.”

Key concepts here:  RENEWABLE, WITHOUT DRILLING or FRACKING, COST-EFFECTIVE, USES EXISTING WASTEWATER, ENVIRONMENTALLY SAFE.

Contrast this with the ramifications of fracking: environmental destruction and pollution, expensive massive infrastructure, earthquakes, methane migration to water wells and aquifers, toxic runoff into soil, streams and rivers, uses millions of gallons of fresh water per well.

Question: If a middle-aged woman sitting in front of a 5-year-old iMac in her pajamas (that would be me) can learn about this, why is absolutely no one in our state or local governments knowledgeable about, talking about, or investigating a technology that would not only give us a new energy source, but do so without destroying our land in the process?

Answer: Because all the decision makers are beholden to the gas companies and blinded by PAC money and campaign contributions and therefore have no incentive to think outside the box of money that keeps them in power.

Request: Tell everyone you know about this new technology – your local town and village board members, county supervisors, and everyone in Albany from the governor on down.

In a phone conversation with Young, he told me, “Wherever you have hydrogen, you can make natural gas.”  He said this new technology is still in the developmental stages, with a large-scale pilot study planned for the next 9-12 months.

My point is this: If a new benign technology is on the horizon, why allow a destructive process like hydrofracking to begin in the first place? We do not need to rush into this!

More information can be obtained from Jerry Schranz, Senior Account Executive at Beckerman PR, One University Plaza, Suite 507, Hackensack, New Jersey 07601, email jschranz@beckermanpr.com or directly from HyperSolar, 629 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101, email info@hypersolar.com, telephone 805-966-6566 or visit hypersolar.com.

Chris Hoffman lives in the village of Sherburne in her 150+ year-old house where she caters to the demands of her four cats, attempts to grow heirloom tomatoes and herbs and reads voraciously. She passionately pursues various avenues with like-minded friends to preserve and protect a sustainable rural lifestyle for everyone in Central New York. 

 

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Why Am I Not Surprised?

January 20, 2012 By Leave a Comment

 

Think Local

By Chris Hoffman

(Sherburne, NY – Jan. 2012) On Jan. 10, Common Cause/NY released a third report in their series on the financial relationship between the gas industry and NYS politicians entrusted with the task of determining policy on hydraulic fracturing.

Common Cause is a nonpartisan, nonprofit advocacy organization founded in 1970 as a vehicle for citizens to make their voices heard in the political process and to hold their elected leaders accountable to the public interest.  With nearly 400,000 members and supporters and 36 state organizations, Common Cause is “the citizen’s lobbyist,” committed to honest, open and accountable government, with clean elections and ethical standards for elected officials.

The report reveals that between January 2007 and October 2011, the gas industry made 2,349 campaign contributions to state and local politicians and parties in New York, representing more than $1.34 million.

75 percent of the $1.34 million went to Senate and Assembly candidates, with $300,000 going to “soft money accounts” that are allowed to accept unlimited contributions.  $230,557 went to the top ten State Legislative recipients, and Gov. Cuomo’s 2010 campaign received $153,816.

The top 12 gas companies and energy associations contributed over 90 percent of total contributions to the industry.  A mere 7 percent of campaign contributions came from small donors contributing $250 or less.

The top twelve gas industry campaign contributors are:

National Grid – $275,722

Con Edison – $214,232

National Fuel – $193,258

Independent Power Producers of New York – $192,643

Competitive Power Ventures – $89,316

Constellation Energy – $61,674

NYSEG/RG&E/Iberdrola – $60,432

Central Hudson/CH Energy – $29,808

Dominion Resources – $25,250

Independent Oil & Gas Association of NY – $25,210

Chesapeake Appalachia – $24,800

NRG Energy – $22,912

Bet you didn’t know this: NYSEG (New York State Electric and Gas) and RG&E (Rochester Gas and Electric) are subsidiaries of Iberdrola USA, which is a global energy conglomerate based NOT in New York but – wait for it — in Spain!

The gas industry also spent almost $100,000 on various local candidates around the state (including county executives, county legislators, city council members, town supervisors, and mayors) and gave almost $30,000 to county and town level local party committees. Think maybe you should be asking if your local reps received any of this money?

Additionally, The Business Council of New York State, the most influential statewide business lobby, supports fracking the Marcellus and was opposed to the 2010 moratorium bill.

Between January 2007 and October 2011, the gas industry contributed $19,300 to the Business Council PAC, which then contributed over $280,000 to NYS politicians, including $83,750 to Senate Republican soft money, $26,900 to Assembly Democratic soft money, and $9,000 to Cuomo’s 2010 gubernatorial campaign. The Business Council is also one of New York’s top lobbyists, spending over $3.2 million during this period to influence Albany.

The Unshackle Upstate Campaign, another major business organization that supports fracking, spent $841,783 on lobbying from 2007 to October 2011.

So, here’s the bottom line: while ordinary citizens have been engaging in whatever form of anti-fracking activism suits our particular abilities, for the past four years the industry has been funneling huge amounts of money into political campaigns and government entities to buy influence and a guaranteed vote.  Industry has out-influenced the citizenry by a margin of more than 14:1. Remember the Enron tapes that showed industry hacks and traders laughing and making fun of the consumer as they manipulated the market to Enron’s advantage?  I imagine that this is precisely what all the gas industry lobbyists and CEOs do when they see news coverage of the 23 anti-fracking people who showed up at a SGEIS public hearing.

While we hope and pray that our letters and emails and demonstrations and disparate organizations begging to be heard in Albany will have the desired effect, that our “leaders” will do the right thing and protect us and the land that sustains us, the reality is that there is not a chance in Hell that what we want matters one iota when matched against the massive, powerful, and monied corporate agenda.

If you believe for a New York second that the recipients of industry dollars will consider anything other than what their masters want, you are hopelessly naïve.  If you believe that government regulators will – or can – do their job once pollution and contamination and illness start to show up where drilling is taking place, I can only ask, “what rock have you been living under for the past three decades?”  It’s all about money.  Always was, always will be.  And the rest of us be damned.  For the full report, see commoncause.org/ny/deepdrillingdeeppockets.

Chris Hoffman lives in the village of Sherburne in her 150+ year-old house where she caters to the demands of her four cats, attempts to grow heirloom tomatoes and herbs and reads voraciously. She was instrumental in defeating NYRI’s power lines through her work with STOP NYRI, Inc., and passionately pursues various avenues with like-minded friends to preserve and protect a sustainable rural lifestyle for everyone in Central New York. 

 

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OPL to host Talk on Hydrofracking Jan. 21

January 17, 2012 By Leave a Comment

(Oneida, NY – Jan. 2012) As New York State comes closer to permitting hydrofracking, Toshio Hance of the Sierra Club comes to the Oneida Public Library on Saturday Jan. 21 at 1 p.m. to present “Gasland: The Facts about Hydrofracking” to residents of a county likely to be adversely affected by this controversial method of drilling for natural gas.

Hance works on the Gas Task Force at the Sierra Club’s Atlantic Chapter. She has recently made several presentations on hydrofracking in Oneida County and is now doing the same in Madison County, where some municipalities are considering the advisability of a one-year moratorium on hydrofracking in the face of Governor Andrew Cuomo’s ambivalent stance on issuing gas well permits in New York’s Marcellus Shale.

Meanwhile, in Albany, the state’s Department of Environmental Conservation is still weighing the potential economic benefits from hydrofracking versus the environmental risks to the state’s water aquifers in the Marcellus Shale and beyond.

At the Oneida Library, Hance will show the documentary film “Gasland,” which recounts the cross-country search by filmmaker Josh Fox to find out the truth about hydrofracking and the industry that uses it. Following the film, she will discuss the scientific and economic facts that are currently known about hydrofracking and its environmental impact.

The program is free and open to the public.

For more information, stop by the Oneida Library, 220 Broad St., or call 363-3050.

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New Law Prohibiting Disposal of e-Waste in Solid or Hazardous Waste Facilities is Old Law for Madison County

January 17, 2012 By Leave a Comment

By Sharon A. Driscoll

(Wampsville, NY – Jan. 2012) The new electronic waste disposal law fashioned by the state Department of Environmental Conservation prohibiting the disposal of e-waste in solid or hazardous waste landfills took effect Jan. 1; however, Madison County has had a law on the books since November 2004 prohibiting the disposal of e-waste in the county’s landfill facility.

Madison County began a mandatory e-waste collection program long before anyone else in the state. The program prohibiting disposal of e-waste in the county’s landfill approved by the Madison County Board of Supervisors began its first full year in 2005.

Proper recycling of unwanted electronic equipment diverts thousands of pounds of waste from landfills and incinerators; keeps toxins such as lead, mercury and cadmium from potentially contaminating the air, water and soil and conserves natural resources when valuable materials are reclaimed and reused, rather than using virgin materials.

When New York state enacted the Product Stewardship Law in April 2011, Madison County handed over the lion’s share of its e-waste collection program to LoJo’s Technology, a subsidiary of the Madison Cortland ARC. There is no cost to recycle e-waste at LoJo’s Technology.

LoJo’s, a regional e-waste recycling facility located at 327 Farrier Ave., Oneida, accepts e-waste Monday through Thursday from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. and on the first Saturday of each month from 9 a.m. to noon; however, to ensure proper recycling of e-waste and to ease the transition for those familiar with the county’s long standing e-waste collection program, the county agreed to continue an abbreviated e-waste collection at its four transfer stations, but must charge a small fee for handling and transport from the transfer stations to the Oneida facility.

The county charges one punch on the punch card system for each unit delivered for recycling.

As part of the newly enacted Product Stewardship Law, waste management facilities and transporters have a vital role in educating customers on the opportunities available for recycling electronic waste.

The Product Stewardship Law requires electronic manufacturers to take on the financial burden of recycling and disposing of the products it makes. Solid Waste and Sanitation Director James Zecca said the long-term goal of the law is to encourage manufactures to design products that can be easily recycled and reused and ensure the ‘end-of-life’ aspects of products are considered.

During the six-year e-waste collection program, Madison County has collected 478 tons of computer monitors and televisions for recycling. LoJo’s is seeing higher monthly numbers than those recorded by the Solid Waste Department, but LoJo’s is a regional e-waste recycling facility, taking in all types of electronics not only from Madison County, but also from surrounding counties.

The new e-waste collection system at LoJo’s Technology is working well, according to ARC Director Mike Hulland. From April to mid-November, 160 tons of e-waste has been collected and diverted from the waste stream. Included in that number are the receipts of a four-hour collection event co-sponsored by the Department of Solid Waste and LoJo’s Technology that took in a little less than 19 tons of e-waste for recycling.

Private and public waste haulers and solid or hazardous waste management facilities will no longer be allowed to dispose of electronic waste such as televisions, computers, computer peripherals, etc., in a solid or hazardous waste management facility in New York State, according to the DEC.

Sharon Driscoll is public information officer and recycling coordinator for Madison County.

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Hydraulic Fracturing Not the Solution to Climate Change

January 15, 2012 By 1 Comment

To the Editor:

(Canastota, NY – Jan. 2012) A recent Cornell University study found natural gas may be worse than coal for greenhouse effect. Shale gas extraction will make the greenhouse gas problem worse, due to methane leaking or venting from wells, and also during processing and transportation.

It will deplete and contaminate our fresh water supplies, cause serious illness and cost millions in clean-up and health costs. [Hydraulic fracturing] is not a solution to solve climate change. Natural gas will only bring global profits to the gas extraction industry and leave us with a toxic waste dump.

We must use our natural resources wisely, consume less energy and develop alternatives to [hydraulic fracturing]. Our lives literally depend on it.

Sylvia Skinner-DeFrancisco, Canastota

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Tell Town Supervisors to Ban Hydraulic Fracturing

January 12, 2012 By Leave a Comment

To the Editor:

(Canastota, NY – Jan. 2012) Powerful gas industry lobbyists made sure [hydraulic fracturing] operations are not covered under environmental laws. This means the gas industry can virtually do anything they want to our water and air: consume it, pollute it, dump it and poison the earth.

Without fresh drinking water, our food also becomes contaminated, children become ill; plant life, animals and fish die.

In New York state under the compulsory integration law, some property owners will be forced to allow drilling under their land. Once the gas is extracted, contaminated [hydraulic fracturing] fluid used to drill will be left under his land forever.

What happens when this poison hits his or her neighbors’ water supplies?

The only way to stop this is to contact Gov. Andrew Cuomo at (518) 474-8390 or governor.ny.gov and the state Department of Environmental Conservation at dec.ny.gov/energy/76838.html and tell them the risk to our watersheds is too high a price to pay for shale gas extraction. Many municipalities have already enacted moratoriums or bans on this destructive form of gas extraction.

Ask your town supervisors why they haven’t enacted a moratorium or ban. When they say it’s not dangerous, ask them why the state has already declared New York City’s and Skaneateles Lake watersheds off limits to [hydraulic fracturing]. When they say it won’t happen here, ask them why there are nearly 84,000 acres leased in Madison County and about 1,900 leases in Onondaga County for gas drilling.

Bans and moratoriums are our only protection.

Linda Steffen, Canastota

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Compulsory Integration Wrong

January 11, 2012 By Leave a Comment

To the Editor:

(Canastota, NY – Jan. 2012) At a time when there is no shortage of natural gas and prices are at their lowest, owners of mineral and gas rights are forced to have drilling and fracturing under his land surface, even if the landowner does not want to part with his rights.

Although illegal in many other states, if the state Department of Environmental Conservation finds landowners subject to compulsory integration, landowners are forced to give up their subsoil rights to private gas drilling corporations.

As of Dec. 30, the DEC has given notice of compulsory integration hearings for spacing units in Chenango County, town of Guilford; GASTEM USA Inc., spacing unit size 160.00; Erie County, town of Concord; Ardent Resources, Inc., spacing unit size 160; and Madison County, town of Lebanon; Norse Energy Corp USA, spacing unit size 87.50.

Hearing attendance is mandatory for land owners in spacing units who did not voluntarily enter into lease agreements with gas well operators. The Environmental Conservation Law refers to such owners as “uncontrolled owners.”

These uncontrolled owners who own the fundamental right to their own property will be forced to give up their subsoil rights. Mature trees will be cut and land cleared for transmission lines, well pads and access roads for gas drilling operations.

If these rights were not seized, what would they be worth in the future? What will farmland and fresh water be worth? Our children‘s inheritance stolen. What if the landowner is morally against this contaminating process and just wants to say “no” to [hydraulic fracturing]? What rights will our government take next?

If there ever was a time for our voice to be heard, this is it. Contact the DEC and tell them to stop Compulsory Integration. Visit dec.ny.gov/energy/76838.html.

Cheryl Cary, Canastota

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GSC to hold Annual Meeting

January 10, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Wildlife photographer Eric Dresser to be guest speaker

(Canastota, NY – Jan. 2012) The Great Swamp Conservancy invites GSC members and the public to its annual meeting Jan. 22 at 1 p.m. at the Canastota Public Library. Eric Dresser will be the guest speaker.

Eric is an internationally published photographer who specializes in wildlife and landscape photography from the northeastern United States and Canada. His credits include Adirondack Life Magazine, National Wildlife Magazine, The Nature Conservancy, Birds and Blooms Magazine, US Forest Service, Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, L.L. Bean Catalogues and many more.

North Country Books recently published a book of Eric’s work called “Wildlife Images of the Adirondacks.” (Check the Dec. 2011 issue of NYS Conservationist Front Cover Photograph: Snowy Owl).

With a lifetime of experience in the field, Eric has developed many strategies for getting up close and personal with his wildlife subjects. Eric will share his nature photography via PowerPoint presentation and follow up with a book signing of his most recent book: “Wildlife Images of the Adirondacks.” His love and passion for our natural world can be seen in his photographs.

To view his work, visit NBNP.com.

Election of officers, year in review and goals of 2012 will be discussed. Refreshments will be served.

For more information, email gscincny@centralny.twcbc.com or call (315) 697-2950.

 

 

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