Land conservation, public access at the headwaters of the Chesapeake

十大赌博正规老平台 and the 奥特塞戈土地信托公司 have worked together during the past year to conserve ecologically significant properties and 创建公共访问 around the headwaters of the Susquehanna River and the most northern reach of the Capt. John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Trail.

Their mutual efforts have identified and secured the political support and funds needed to purchase key properties, 开发解释性标识, and begin plans for public access points at the headwaters of the Susquehanna River near Cooperstown, 纽约.

“Our partnership with 十大赌博正规老平台 has been a big boost that has accelerated developing a Blue Way all along Oaks Creek and down the Susquehanna. Tying in to the Captain John Smith Trail is a very good linkage as well,哈利·莱文说。, Chairman of the Board of the 奥特塞戈土地信托公司.

Joel Dunn, Executive Director of the 十大赌博正规老平台, based in Annapolis, MD., noted that by working with partners throughout the watershed together we are able to create more public access to the Chesapeake and its great rivers and to conserve ecologically and culturally significant landscapes.

“Our partnerships with other land trusts, 地方政府, 大学, and businesses make it possible to accomplish a lot and get a great collective bang for our buck and our time,邓恩说.

Their partnership began last year when 十大赌博正规老平台 supported the 奥特塞戈土地信托公司’s successful application to the National Scenic Byways Program for a grant to improve safety and public access at Brookwood point – a 22-acre protected property on Otsego Lake in Cooperstown, NY. The land trust received a $188,000 Scenic Byway grant for this work.

布鲁克伍德点, a former estate that is a part of the Glimmerglass Historic District, 它环绕着湖, is a logical northern terminus for the Captain John Smith Trail. It is on the northwestern edge of Cooperstown, where other attractions are located along the shores of Otsego Lake, including the Fenimore House Art Museum and the Farmers Museum. It has beautiful views of Sleeping Lion, an iconic ridge at the end of the lake; of Cooperstown to the south; and of a 9-mile forested ridgeline-one of the first landscape-scale reforestation projects in the country-to the east.

奥特塞戈土地信托公司, 与此同时, supported efforts to expand the Captain John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Trail from the Susquehanna Flats in Maryland to Otsego Lake in Cooperstown. 小径扩张, which was a primary goal for the 十大赌博正规老平台, 已于五月完成, 2012 through a proclamation from U.S. Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazar.

One of the goals of the Captain John Smith National Historic Trail system is to connect people to the Chesapeake Bay and the bay’s great rivers. Public access points are critical to achieving this. The 奥特塞戈土地信托公司 was able to secure $47,000 of federal funding through the Chesapeake Bay Gateways Network. The 十大赌博正规老平台 is the lead advocate for the Gateways Program. Most of the funding will go to the trust’s most visible site, 康普顿桥, which is located at the confluence of Oaks Creek and Susquehanna River, 就在库珀斯敦南部.

在那里, working with the 纽约 Department of Environmental Conservation they will put in a facility to provide canoe and kayak launches.

The 康普顿桥 access site demonstrates the feasibility of creating water access at bridge crossings, an approach to creating access the 十大赌博正规老平台 has been advocating, and one which 纽约 state officials have supported.

一起工作, the two organizations secured $25,从一个私人基金会得到了000美元, which was then matched 2:1 by local donors. The proceeds of these grants are being used to purchase Deowongo Island in Canadarago Lake, significant natural areas on Oaks Creek, and land around the new access point for the John Smith Tail at 康普顿桥.