Mapping Project

The Conservancy Awarded $7,500 Matching Grant

With a $7500 grant from the Greenway Conservancy for the Hudson River Valley, the New Baltimore Conservancy was able to join a partnership with the Greene County Soil and Water Conservation District to acquire a GPS unit and to receive training in its use. With this expertise, trail maps were updated and can be periodically modified as new trails are added or routes, changed.

Three members of the New Baltimore Conservancy completed the Hudsonia Biodiversity Assessment training program in 2004, which resulted in a preliminary map of the biodiversity of the Hudson River Corridor from the (southern) New Baltimore town line to the Hamlet. This map was included in a report presented to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation in October, 2004. As part of the out-reach component of the Hudson River Corridor Mapping and Inventory Project, members of the New Baltimore Conservancy participated in a presentation of biodiversity mapping methods and tools to the town boards and planning boards of New Baltimore, Coxsackie and Athens, April, 2006.