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Alliance holds regular monthly meetings in the Pine Hill Community
Center. You are welcome to attend. To find out more, email: info@catskillheritage.org
The
Catskill Heritage Alliance is a grassroots organization dedicated
to preserving the harmony between the villages of the central Catskills
and the surrounding wilderness through community revitalization
and open space conservation. The CHA is a 501(c)3 tax-exempt charitable
organization.
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CHA
statement on Hydrofracking
CHA
Statement on ORDA Click
Here Mid
Hudson News Coverage
Authority
backs off Belleayre takeover
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to Flood Relief!
CHA has established a flood relief fund to funnel contributions
to three area organizations helping Catskills families and
businesses: Helping Hands of NY, the Interfaith Council, and
the Watershed Agriculture Council's Farmer Relief Fund. From
now until October 31 you can make a PayPal contribution to
CHA for flood relief. Click the yellow Donate button
on the left column of the page to make a contribution.
Or mail a check to CHA, PO Box 88, Shandaken, NY 12480 (note
flood relief in memo line) All monies will be divided equally
among the three organizations.
Olivia
Todd Fleischmanns, N.Y. Margaretville Central School
Review
of a Proposal to Transfer New York State’s Belleayre Mountain
Ski Center to a Public Authority(download PDF)
Read Press Release
New
SDEIS is available for review
 Belleayre
Resort Info SDEIS is available to review.
For over a decade the Catskill Heritage Alliance has
opposed plans to build a megaresort beside the state-run
Belleayre Mountain Ski Center in Highmount. Over the
years our members, volunteers from the community, have
kept the public aware of the harmful effects of resort
development on the environment and rural communities.
Read about our efforts here.
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 Fracking
Drilling for natural gas using the technique of "Fracking"
(high volume horizontal hydrofracking) posses a serious
risk to human and environmental health and threatens
communities and watersheds from the Catskills to far
western New York. The Catskill Heritage Alliance opposes
fracking. Read about fracking facts, with links to gas
drilling websites, here.
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108 Ways The 108 Ways project
describes how people earn a living in rural communities
surrounded by the large wilderness acreage of the Catskills
Park. If you’d like to add your “way”
to our database and perhaps serve as a mentor to others,
contact us at 108@catskillheritage.org. Click here to
see the list of job categories and the ways others are
adapting livelihoods to the Catskills. |
 Catskill
Cornucopia
The
CHA, Catskill Mountainkeeper and The CCCD collaborate
to create a series of presentations and discussions
on an abundance of subjects of importance to our communities,
including field trips and special events. Always stimulating,
energizing, free and open to the public.
Preview
the next Cornucopia on our events page
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 Heritage
Moments
Over and over again people fall in love with the Catskills
and its natural beauty and peacefulness. Visitors and
residents alike share the experience of coming to terms
with the landscape, and, if they stay long enough, of
allowing the landscape to shape their lives. Each generation
and each person does this on his or her own terms, acknowledging
the past while creating an identity in the present.
This makes up the heritage of the Catskills. If you’d
like information on the specifics of this project, have
an idea for a video, or would like to offer technical
support to help others complete their films, contact
moments@catskillheritage.org. Now playing: "Matt
Frisch and Family", also, "The
Tanbark Trail" by Dave Channon
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Ridgeline
Protection
Regional Organizations Seek Proposals to Define Value
of Public Lands
The Catskill Heritage Alliance, Catskill Center for Conservation
and Development, and Catskill Mountainkeeper announce
a Request for Proposals (RFP) to quantify the economic
value of the public land resources in the Catskill Region.
The concentration of public lands and their recreational
and scenic assets represent an economic value to the region’s
communities; however, a comprehensive valuation of these
resources has not been undertaken. The project will evaluate
how more than 350,000 acres of publicly accessible lands
and reservoirs of the Catskill Forest Preserve and Catskill-Delaware
Watershed affect the economies of local communities. The
findings of the study will help communities and partnering
organizations better understand how the region's outdoor
assets are used and where efforts can be focused to support
recreation and tourism. You can read the RFP Download
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