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Environmental fund helps Canton initiative

Posted 5/17/11

To the Editor: This year, Governor Cuomo and state legislators maintained our state’s Environmental Protection Fund and stopped the practice of disproportionately cutting funding for environmental …

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Environmental fund helps Canton initiative

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To the Editor:

This year, Governor Cuomo and state legislators maintained our state’s Environmental Protection Fund and stopped the practice of disproportionately cutting funding for environmental agencies in the state budget.

The Environmental Protection Fund protects the things we love about New York. It creates jobs, revitalizes communities, safeguards clean drinking water, preserves family farms, prevents pollution, and restores natural resources.

Here in Canton, the EPF is providing funding for the St. Lawrence Land Trust’s newest initiative, Friends of the Watershed. The initiative’s goal is to work with landowners along the Grasse and Little Rivers to promote responsible environmental practices to preserve the ecological and scenic beauty of the North Country’s watersheds. The EPF is also supporting work the trust is doing with a landowner to create an easement on the Grasse River.

Thanks to the efforts of Governor Cuomo and Legislature, including Patty Ritchie, Addie Russell, and Ken Blankenbush, we’re on the path to protecting the things we love about New York.

Erika Barthelmess, President

St. Lawrence Land Trust