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--- Begin Message ---Yesterday I posted news to the local birding community about the serious intent by the Boy Scouts of American organization to sell the sizable Pouch Camp which lies deep in the heart of the Staten Island Greenbelt (Richmond County) (asking price 60 million, but a conservation easement for 30 million dollars) A friend emailed me today the website that was set up and a petition on the left sidebar . Please pass along to folks and people you know or write letters. Pouch Camp is north of and adjacent to High Rock Park ; its demise to development would seriously fragment and degrade the forest habitat within the Greenbelt (the same situation that faced Sterling Forest years ago before the state bought the central remaining tract) .Staten island Greenbelt is a prime birding and natural wildlife area that I and my club visited from time to time.More details on the following link. _http://www.savepouch.com/index.html_ (http://www.savepouch.com/index.html) To get an idea of the property check _http://www.sigreenbelt.com/_ (http://www.sigreenbelt.com/) and below on this homepage click on the map pdf file and "trail map", zoom up to at least 125%,find HIGH ROCK and look to right of "Bloodroot Valley", and above Lake Ohrbach for the jeopardized property. or click on _http://www.sigreenbelt.com/Trails/trailmap.pdf_ (http://www.sigreenbelt.com/Trails/trailmap.pdf) Peter Brooklyn Bird Club (Kings county) [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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