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Legislator Wolfe Recommends Stream Buffer Restoration Project

 

 

 

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New City, NY (July 23, 2013) – Vice Chairman of the Legislature Alden H. Wolfe is encouraging Rockland residents and local environmental groups to apply to participate in the state’s Hudson River Estuary “Trees for Tribs” Fall 2013 program. The NYS Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) sponsors the program that offers free native trees, grasses and shrubs for qualifying projects developed by volunteers that will create or restore natural buffers along Hudson River tributaries (“tribs”) which help to reduce pollution, erosion and improve the general health of the tributaries.   Since the introduction of the program in 2007, volunteers have planted more than 30,000 trees and shrubs along 70,000 feet of streams from the Verrazano Narrows Bridge to the Troy Dam. 

 

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“We need healthy buffers along the Hudson’s tributaries,” said Legislator Wolfe, chairman of the legislature’s Environmental Committee.  “Not only do buffers prevent soil erosion and filter pollution runoff, they are important to wildlife and help to reduce flooding.”

 

Legislator Wolfe recommends persons interested in further information  visit the DEC website, www.dec.ny.gov/lands/43668.html or contact the Hudson River Estuary Program’s Stream Buffer Coordinator, Beth Roessler at (845) 256-2253 or baroessl@gw.dec.state.ny.us.

 

 

 

 

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