Mapping Project

The Conservancy Awarded $15,000 Matching Grant

The Conservancy has been rewarded a $15,000 matching grant by Greenway!  Matching means that Greenway provides $7,500, and the Conservancy matches that with in-kind services for $7,500.  The Conservancy grant request was entitled: "New Baltimore Hudson River Corridor Mapping and Inventory Phase".  The grant will enable the Conservancy, and the Town to have a reliable base map of New Baltimore's portion of the Hudson River corridor from Coeymans to Coxsackie, which will enable us to integrate existing resources (i.e., Preserve, Historic District, HRIT, River Road (a state designated scenic highway), facilitate the planning of future projects, and improve our chances for larger grants in the future. This base map will also enable us to produce high quality, user-friendly documents such as color walking and biking maps, etc.

The need for this project becomes more and more clear as we work on our property related priorities and want to talk about options or present to groups like the Town Board and ZBA. A grant from the Greenway Conservancy will make this effort possible. Alta Turner and John Cannon are going to take the lead on this project. Alta has already attended training on Arc View, the computer tool that we will use. The Greene County Soil and Water Conservation District has agreed to work with us and their expertise and available data will be very helpful. We need to provide volunteer "in kind" effort to match the Greenway grant so we will be looking for help on this.