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Like Treasure Hunts?
Try Letterboxing!
(click for link)
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There's a MAP for that!
Saratoga County trails are now mapped and available online in a variety of
formats for your walking, hiking, rolling, riding,
biking, and running leasure!
Special thanks to the Saratoga County Chamber of Commerce, the Saratoga County Planning Department, and Christopher Ferraro, former Saratoga PLAN intern extraordinaire,
for gathering the data
for the trail maps
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TICK SEASON IS COMING EARLY THIS YEAR
- Walk in the middle of paths.
- Wear light-colored clothing so ticks can be easily seen, and brush them off.
- Tuck pants into boots or socks.
- Promptly check yourself, others, and pets if exposed to tick areas.
- Remove attached ticks promptly
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Important Information on
Ticks and Lyme Disease
http://www.lymeinfo.net/protection.html
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QUICK LINKS:
Using Conservation Easements
to Protect Agricultural Land
Tools for Community
Planning and Conservation
NEW Trail Resources in Saratoga County
Champlain Canalway Trail
Action Plan
Battles of Saratoga Viewshed Preservation Plan
Historic Saratoga-Washington on the Hudson Partnership Stewardship Plan
Saratoga County Green Infrastructure Plan
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Please call 518-587-5554 to find our more about the Legacy Circle and planned giving.
If you have made arrangements to remember Saratoga PLAN in your estate plans, we invite you to join the Legacy Circle so that we may acknowledge your thoughtfulness and generosity.
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Click to view our Fall 2011 Newsletter
Click to view our Spring 2011 Newsletter
Click for our latest Annual Report
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Saratoga PLAN
T-shirts now
available!
Show your support of land conservation
in Saratoga County.
Suggested donation $15.00
Contact 587-5554
or email trisha@saratogaplan.org
Please consider adding $2.25 to your donation
to cover first class postage
Yellow T-shirts in children's sIzes
now available!
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SAVE THE DATE FOR
FEAST OF THE FIELDS
SEPTEMBER 13, 2012
We are looking for volunteers to serve on Feast Committee. Contact kim@saratogaplan.org
and be a part of this amazing event!
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Saratoga P.L.A.N. receives operating support from
the New York State Council on the Arts,
with support of Governor Andrew Cuomo
and the New York State Legislature
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Saratoga PLAN helps protect the exceptional quality of life in our region by
conserving open spaces and special places for present and future generations.
Saratoga P.L.A.N. helps communities make long-term decisions to sustain the Saratoga Region as a great place to live, work, visit, and farm.
As a land trust, we protect land in the Saratoga region through purchases and donations of land and conservation easements, to protect important natural resources and open spaces. We have protected over 3,387 acres of farmland, forest, natural habitat, trail corridors, historic places, and water resources in the Saratoga region and have over 1,000 acres of projects now in the works.
As a community partner, we help landowners,
developers, community and government agencies find innovative
ways to guide development, reduce sprawl, preserve and enhance
outdoor recreational areas and protect the natural qualities
of the region.
UPCOMING EVENTS
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Stay up to date on all the
lastest news and happenings at PLAN
Click HERE
to view our
SPRING 2012
NEWSLETTER
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We are pleased to announce that once
again J'Mae Shemroske will be leading
Family Walks in the Woods
Get out and enjoy nature with your kids.
Walks will be held on lands conserved
and maintained by Saratoga P.L.A.N.
Walking children, babies in slings, toddlers
in strollers - all are welcome.
All hikes are free and open to the
public by reservation. Please bring water.
All hikes start at 11 a.m. We will cancel for rain.
To register, please contact
J'Mae at 518-567-9527
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Upcoming walks
Tuesday, May 15
Bog Meadow
Tuesday, May 22
Orra Phelps Nature Preserve
Tuesday, May 29
Zim Smith Trail
click here for a link to more
Family Walks in the Woods
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June 2nd is NATIONAL TRAILS DAY
We will be at HENNIG PRESERVE
with our amazing Site Stewards
working on extending the trail system.
Save the Date and plan to join us!
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JOIN US FOR TOUR DE FARM
July 29, 2012
Tour de Farm is an educational bicycle
tour celebrating the beauty and productivity
of the farmland that forms the backdrop for
Saratoga National Historic Park.
These working landscapes, largely
undeveloped since the Revolutionary War,
provide important historical context for visitors
to the Park as well as a bounty of fresh
food, environmental benefits, and
economic and recreational
opportunities for the region.
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Sponsors always welcome.
Contact info@saratogaplan.org
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Saratoga PLAN launches 3 Bags Full Campaign to conserve the Foster
Sheep Farm
The 145-acre Foster Sheep Farm with fertile hay fields and pastures is located on the western bank of the Hudson River in the Town of Northumberland in Saratoga County, New York. The funds raised will be used to coordinate the process of applying a perpetual conservation easement on the property, ensuring that it will remain farmland and forest forever.
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click here to read more about the Foster Sheep Farm and the 3 Bags Full Campaign
keep checking back for details
on these upcoming events
Children's Felting Workshop- June 17th
(Sundae on the Farm)
Fiber Artisan Sale- September 22nd
"A Thousand Fibers" Fiber Arts Show-
September 20th-October 18th
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Coldbrook Preserve
The Coldbrook Preserve is a 64-acre property in the Town of Northumberland which will be opening in the Summer of 2012 for public recreation. The trails on this preserve will eventually connect to county trails and trails owned by The Nature Conservancy and The Wilton Wildlife Preserve. The Coldbrook Preserve will offer critical buffer to wetland habitat for the Blanding's turtle, a New York State-threatened species, and the spotted turtle, as well as opportunities for scientists to study the species.
Looking for trail volunteers and site stewards for our newest preserve. Contact Andy Fyfe, Stewardship Director if you are interested
This preserve will be opening Summer 2012..
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Hennig Preserve
We are pleased to announce the opening of our newest preserve, the 606-acre Hennig Preserve, located in the Town of Providence. We've installed 1.5 miles of trail and need volunteers to help expand the trail system. Contact Andy Fyfe, Stewardship Director.
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Nature Preserve Passport
Get outside and enjoy our trails and preserves!
The Preserve Passport
is made possible by funding from
Anthony and Nicholas Mitola, and
a grant from the Nordlys Foundation,
with additional support from Price Chopper's Golub Foundation.
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Visit 5 preserves and complete
the activity to win a free
P.L.A.N. T-shirt.
Astrea Ravenstar’s 2nd grade class at Waldorf School.completed 5 preserve letterboxing activitiesand came in for a visit to the PLAN offices to pick up their t-shirts.
The class really enjoyed hiking the trails and finding the “treasure” boxes!
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"In the end,
we will conserve only what we love.
We will love only what we understand.
We will understand only
what we have been taught."
Baba Dioum -- Senegalese Conservationis
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