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Spring and Summer Events
Check back soon for details about our guided walks and other events during the warmer months: spring's arrival at Sloan Gorge Preserve (April), early morning bird watching with Peter Schoenberger (May), poetry at the Zena Cornfield (June), and biking at Bluestone Wild Forest with Fats in the Cats Bicycle Club (July).
Celebration and Benefit for WLC: Match Challenge Extended
In the midst of the never-ending snowstorm, we enjoyed a wonderful party and benefit on the closing day of the Landscape Forever photography exhibit at CPW. (See exhibit details below.)
If you wanted to come and couldn't, it's not too late to add your support and take advantage of an opportunity to double your contribution.
Generous supporters have created a challenge: they will match every dollar we receive up to $10,000. Because the weather kept so many folks from attending the benefit, the match challenge has been extended until March 31st. To make a secure donation, click here. We thank you for your continued support.
Landscape Forever, a collaboration between WLC and the Center for Photography at Woodstock (CPW). Newly-commissioned work by ten local photographers provides a unique and inspiring look at lands that WLC has been instrumental in protecting through easements, purchase, or partnerships with conservation organizations and agencies. Curated by Dion Ogust, the exhibition catalog includes work by Richard Edelman, Gay Leonhardt, Bill Miles, Yva Momatiuk & John Eastcott, Fawn Potash, Peter Schoenberger, Carla Shapiro, and Williams & Russ. The exhibit was on view at CPW in January and February, 2010. The catalog is available for purchase ($20) at CPW, 59 Tinker Street, or by calling John Winter at 347-408-1273.
Woodstock Elementary School presents a Flickr exhibition of student work made in conjunction with the Landscape Forever exhibit. For more information and to see a slideshow of the student exhibit, click here.
Sloan Gorge Preserve
The Woodstock Land Conservancy's Sloan Gorge Preserve opened to the public in June 2007. Located at the foot of Overlook Mountain on the Woodstock-Saugerties town line, the 88-acre Preserve is a treasure trove of mixed hardwood and coniferous forests, vernal pools, a seasonal stream, and bluestone quarries, and has the first interpretive “geology trail” in the area. Read more about Sloan Gorge in the article by Robert Titus in the Spring 2007 issue of Kaatskill Life.
Directions to Sloan Gorge. From the center of Woodstock, take Rock City Road .6 mile, then turn right on Glasco Turnpike. Go 1.7 mi and then turn left on West Saugerties Rd. After 1.1 mi, turn right on Goat Hill Rd. Bear right at the corner again for .1 mi to Stoll Rd. Turn left on Stoll Road. After .2 mi you’ll see the WLC kiosk on the left. Please park only in the Sloan Gorge parking lot.
Birding at Sloan Gorge. Photo by Sonya Shoptaugh.