ALBANY – The State Department of Environmental Conservation has awarded $216,000 for two projects to help communities prepare for and mitigate localized flooding, improve water quality, and restore aquatic habitats in tributaries of the Hudson River Estuary. Road-stream crossing management plans in the towns of Austerlitz, Ghent and New Baltimore in Columbia County will receive […]
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Way We Were, Week Ending August 30
The Newtown Bee published some news from years gone by and this was one of the short articles. September 16, 1994 In this country, we are fond of pointing out that our great rivers and lakes belong not to one person or group but to all people. By holding to the ideal that all citizens […]
Explore the Outdoors with an Accredited Land Trust
HVA is one of 25 organizations achieving renewed accreditation Saratoga Springs, New York (August 6, 2019) – Summer is the time to get outside. Are you ready to explore new places? Check out the preserves and parks held by your local accredited land trust or by the land trust where you vacation. “There are now […]
Environmental nonprofits receive project grant
Berkshire Eagle The Berkshire Environmental Action Team, the Hoosic River Watershed Association and the Housatonic Valley Association have received a two-year $29,218 grant from the Massachusetts Environmental Trust for a water quality project on the Hoosic River in Adams and North Adams. The funding will enable the three organizations to work with community volunteers to […]
Oxford Main Street Project Volunteer Day
The volunteers will be eliminating invasive plants from the 17 acres of open-space across from the Oxford Town Hall By Brian McCready, Patch Staff OXFORD, CT — Oxford Main Street Project Volunteer Day sponsored by Thule Group of Seymour, CT and the Housatonic Valley Association. Volunteers from Thule Group and Housatonic Valley Association will be […]
Extraordinary life: Jim Perkins was an idea man with ‘a special kind of luck’
Jim Perkins, president of the Housatonic Valley Association Board of Directors in the early 1990s, died April 16 in Kent. Jim Perkins was an exuberant polymath, a successful writer, editor, television producer, outdoorsman and environmentalist. He described himself as someone who could move words and pictures, and maintained that his achievements were the result of […]
War of the Worlds: Imported insects battle invasive plants
By Robert Miller Torrington Register Citizen Zetterstrom and his team of volunteers — the Knotweed Network — have paddled the Housatonic, then worked with the Housatonic Valley Association … In “The War of the Worlds” the gross alien invaders — Martians, of course — ravage the cities and countryside alike, only to fall victim to the […]
Stockbridge: River Art Project 3 opening reception
Berkshire Eagle, June 18, 2019 An opening reception for The River Art Project 3 will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, June 21, at Stockbridge Station Gallery, 2 Depot St. The exhibition features six painters from the Berkshire region who work with the river as subject — Bart Elsbach, Michael Filmus, Ann Getsinger, […]
Housatonic River access site opening Saturday in Cornwall
Published in the Register Citizen CORNWALL — A new river access site is opening on the Housatonic River. In the works for over a decade, a ribbon-cutting for the site will be held May 25 at 2 p.m. at “The Bend” of the Housatonic River in West Cornwall, just downstream from the covered bridge on […]
Opening up rivers, one dam at a time
By Robert Miller When, in the late 18th century, the Industrial Revolution knocked, the state of Connecticut swung the door open, providing start-up money for textile mills. The vast transformation from farming village to factory towns needed water for power. An industrious people responded by building […]
