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The grants were awarded through the Small Watershed Grants program, a key funding mechanism of the federal-state Chesapeake Bay Program designed to support projects within the Chesapeake Bay watershed that promote voluntary, community-based efforts to protect and restore the diverse and vital habitats of the Chesapeake Bay and its tributary rivers and streams.…
Samaritans Rescue 100+ Farm Animals Near Garrattsville Man, Woman Who Resided There Facing Neglect, Marijuana Charges By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com GARRATTSVILLE – An electrified goose dead on the front lawn set the scene for horrors to follow at a 166 Backus Road farm about a half-mile from this hamlet: • A dead goat’s carcass, fed on by nearby fenced-off pigs to stay alive. • Pens where hens were packed so tight their feathers were rubbed off. • A basement room where feces were piled so high deputies could barely force open the door to rescue the five…
Interns Find American Eel In River At Cooperstown COOPERSTOWN – Summer interns at the SUNY Oneonta Biological Field Station stumbled upon a surprise recently when they caught a 12-inch American eel more than 440 miles from the ocean in a habitat from which the species was thought to have been extirpated. The interns, high school graduates Alexa Platt and Lauren Saggese, were researching near the beginning of July in the Susquehanna River near the base of the Cooperstown Dam at Otsego Lake.…