We woke up this morning in NY with a dusting of snow and was greeted with this wonderful video produced by the AZ Game & Fish Department. "Monarch Butterflies are the only insect to migrate 2500 miles to get out of the cold weather and hibernate." Tagging expeditions are used to determine migration patterns. Determining migration patterns is then used to help protect more open space!
Conservation In Action: Stories That Green The World
How to Be A More Effective Leader when Faced With The Difficulties of Politics & Power Struggles - A Civic Leader's Perspective
All Welcome To The Next Quality Parks Jan 27th meeting with Guest Speaker, Chris Sosik, Ridge Civic Association Chair. Also to be discussed at breakout sessions: conservation, education and the values we need for attaining quality parks.
Date: January 27th, Friday, 7-9:30 pm (and onwards - Fourth Friday of the Month)
Location: Port Jefferson or Virtual, RSVP, contact us with your choice - Email
Agenda
7:00 - 7:15 - Time of Arrival
7:15 - 7:30 - A Moment of Reflection for our "Spiritual Advisory Board," to include and recognize: Raymond P. Corwin, Kim Darrow, and others, who you can name, and include, who we posthumously honor and who continue to guide us in reaching shared conservation and education values.
7:30 - 8:00 Breakout Sessions:
Date: January 27th, Friday, 7-9:30 pm (and onwards - Fourth Friday of the Month)
Location: Port Jefferson or Virtual, RSVP, contact us with your choice - Email
Agenda
7:00 - 7:15 - Time of Arrival
7:15 - 7:30 - A Moment of Reflection for our "Spiritual Advisory Board," to include and recognize: Raymond P. Corwin, Kim Darrow, and others, who you can name, and include, who we posthumously honor and who continue to guide us in reaching shared conservation and education values.
7:30 - 8:00 Breakout Sessions:
- Quality Parks Value: These conservation and education values shouldn't be assumed, but should be made explicit. Review and comment about what is being drafted. Hand out at meeting.
Brushing Trails at Brookhaven Park
I had a wonderful experience out in Brookhaven State Park on New Year's Day. The primal feeling of being in the woods with a small band of people always does a great deal to bring down my stress levels from the work week, restoring my basic sense of the world and my place in it. This day, Mindy set Harvey and I on a course to also do something purposeful while there, and so she brought Harvey and I to a small pond west of Tarkill Pond to brush a trail nearby.
The purpose of brushing a trail is to restore its integrity.
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| Photo - Inspired By Ray and in Remembering Ray |
A New Year's Dilemma - A Pine Barrens Tale
Mindy's been in a dilemma for days. Does she "let the powers that be" take care of the Pine Barrens, its stewardship, as she too transforms (not in death) but in moving on? Yet, in speaking with Kim Darrow, a fellow Pine Barrens constituent, before he passed, she said to Kim, "It's in our blood," and so the passion persists in need of wisdom.
