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WILDLIFE AND OVERTOURISM IN THE HUDSON HIGHLANDS, PART 2. PROFILES OF THREATENED SPECIES.
Eastern Fence Lizard Let's take a look at an additional seven wildlife species that live, nest, or winter in the 7.5 mile corridor of the...
Pete Salmansohn
Jan 316 min read
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WILDLIFE AND OVERTOURISM IN THE HUDSON HIGHLANDS : Profiles of threatened species - Part 1
Hikers clambering up America's most popular day hike - Breakneck Ridge When I first arrived in Cold Spring, New York in the late 1980's...
Pete Salmansohn
Jan 197 min read
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REVISITING BARRY COMMONER'S 4 LAWS OF ECOLOGY
To make sense of the world, one generally needs guideposts, perspectives and teachings --- typically designed by brilliant and wise...
Pete Salmansohn
Jan 9, 20245 min read
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ECHOES OF CHILDHOOD, ECHOES OF MAINE........
When my brother and I were young, our parents would take us each summer to a new place in the countryside where we could swim and fish...
Pete Salmansohn
Jun 15, 20213 min read
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Of Cormorants, Deer, and Geese, Oh My............
In the summer of 1998, nine men took several boat trips out to a small island in eastern Lake Ontario and shot approximately 900...
Pete Salmansohn
May 5, 20215 min read
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Farmer Steph - An Earthy Missionary!
Good news is frequently under the radar these days, as the late Pete Seeger reminded us, but we can find that good stuff by putting our...
Pete Salmansohn
Jan 5, 20218 min read
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Reporting From Puffin-Land in Mid-Coast Maine
When I first came to work as an instructor for adults at the Audubon Ecology Camp in Maine 40 years ago, I didn’t know the difference...
Pete Salmansohn
Aug 25, 20205 min read
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Hope is a thing with fins.................
Writing anything original and meaningful these days feels like a very daunting challenge. I’ve been feeling like a deer-in-the-headlights...
Pete Salmansohn
Jun 12, 20204 min read
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Meditations during early spring.
Spring is arriving here in fits and starts. The male cardinals in our neighborhood have been loudly singing the past few weeks, alerting...
Pete Salmansohn
Mar 30, 20203 min read
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Navigating a path amidst children's eco-anxiety
I recently saw on our neighborhood Facebook pages several photographs of a mock funeral march and event for planet earth and its...
Pete Salmansohn
Feb 17, 20204 min read
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Heroes, ecology, and lessons to be learned.
My world as a very impressionable kid growing up on Long Island was influenced in the late 1950’s and early ‘60’s by make-believe...
Pete Salmansohn
Jan 24, 20204 min read
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My friend Ted
In the early stages of my career as a neophyte young naturalist, I was introduced to a variety of hawk watchers, mentors, bird Gods,...
Pete Salmansohn
Jan 12, 20203 min read
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Brief reflections on a "new year"
At this time of year, in early January, my thoughts turn to the great observer and chronicler of nature – Hal Borland – who lived on a farm
Pete Salmansohn
Jan 1, 20202 min read
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