Hawthorn Orchards (and Salt Road Fen) to be designated Unique Natural Areas. This announces a public meeting. I don't know much about it, but looks like this is an info session for the public rather than one at which the public speaks. Perhaps someone can add more details?
Sandy Podulka Use this link to see the same info with better formatting: http://www.tompkins-co.org/emc/docs/10_16_2012_UNA_Poster.pdf >If you are concerned about land preservation, please show your support. ><http://www.tompkins-co.org/emc/index.htm>Tompkins >County Environmental Management Council > >You're Invited! >To a Public Meeting on Unique Natural Areas (UNAs) >Tuesday, October 16, 2012 at 7:00 PM >In the Borg Warner Room of the Tompkins County Public Library >(101 East Green Street, Ithaca) >ï The Tompkins County Environmental Management >Council invites the public to a special presentation >about two new proposed UNAs. This presentation >will explain the Unique Natural Areas Inventory, >and provide details on the two newly-identified >additions. For more information go to: ><http://www.tompkins-co.org/emc>http://www.tompkins-co.org/emc >ï Unique Naturals Areas feature outstanding >environmental qualities that deserve special attention >for preservation in their natural state, and >have locally rare plants, animals, or interesting assemblages >of plants and animals that are locally uncommon. >They may also include a designated preserve; >a state-designated wetland; historical, >cultural, botanical, zoological or geological importance; >recreational value; scenic vista; wilderness; >archeological or paleontological site; and/or urban >greenspace. >ï The UNA inventory promotes the conservation >and/or preservation of UNAs for the benefit of future >generations, and is an information tool to help >people make the wisest choices possible in protecting >the rural character and natural beauty of Tompkins County. >ï The UNA inventory was started in 1973. It >was greatly expanded and updated in 1990, and was >revised in 2000. Currently, within Tompkins >County there are 192 UNAs encompassing over 15,000 >acres. These sites were included in the >inventory based on the work of ecologists, botanists, animal >scientists, geologists, and wetland specialists >who, when permission was granted, surveyed many of >these sites on foot. Other parcels that were not >field-visited were surveyed from the road or adjacent >parcels, or by using topographic maps and aerial photography. >ï The EMC has identified Hawthorn Orchards and >Salt Road Fen as meeting the criteria to be >included in the UNA Inventory. >ï Hawthorn Orchard is south of Mitchell Street >and west of Pine Tree Road, near the Cornell tennis >and equestrian centers. It consists of 50 acres >in the Town and City of Ithaca, and >includes Cornell property. It has outstanding >birding during spring migration, some public >access, and is an important teaching site. >ï Salt Road Fen encompasses 74 acres in the >Town of Groton. There are rare or scarce plant >communities and species and it is an important >rich fen habitat with known population of Trollius >laxus, the globally rare globeflower. -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
