Land & Environmental Section :: Page 14

• Hope Taft to talk Ohio Scenic Rivers Act at TLT annual meeting

  By YS News StaffMay 21, 2018

  

  Tecumseh Land Trust invites the public to the 2018 annual gathering and meeting at the McCulloch Fen Run Farm on Sunday, June 3, at 2 p.m. This year’s guest speaker will be Hope Taft, former first lady of Ohio, who will celebrate the 50th anniversary of Ohio’s Scenic Rivers Act.

• Plan to protect local drinking water updated

  By Megan BachmanApril 19, 2018

  

  An update the Village of Yellow Springs Wellhead Protection Plan, first passed in 2001, features new strategies to protect the aquifer that is the source of local drinking water.

• Operation Bluebird — YS students monitor nesting boxes

  By Carol SimmonsApril 12, 2018

  

  There’s nothing quite like seeing a bluebird in its environment, especially for bird lovers.

• Celebrate ‘baby season’ at Raptor Center with a baby shower

  By Lauren ShowsApril 11, 2018

  

  The Glen Helen Raptor Center is preparing to celebrate the coming of spring with a special open house event on Sunday, April 22, beginning at 2 p.m. — a baby shower, for all the baby raptors who will be raised and rehabilitated by the Raptor Center in the coming months.

• Celebrate Earth Day with plant sale, swap

  By YS News StaffApril 2, 2018

  

  Tecumseh Land Trust will sponsor an Earth Day Plant Sale and Swap on Saturday, April 21, 11 a.m.–3 p.m., at the Glen Helen Vernet Building

• Digester upgrade stirs debate

  By Megan BachmanMarch 22, 2018

  

  A proposed expansion at the biodigester is drawing increased public criticism of the facility, as well as the related issue of the application of its liquid fertilizer product to nearby farms.

• Recycle your ‘e-waste’

  By YS News StaffMarch 19, 2018

  

  Local resident Zeke Reichert is collecting “e-waste” — nonfunctioning electronic devices — to be recycled through May 10.

• Two conferences’ ‘down to earth’ topics

  By Megan BachmanMarch 8, 2018

  

  Liken them to lichen. Two local nonprofits, akin to how algae and fungi form that symbiotic organism, are working in mutually beneficial ways to transform the local food and farming scene.

• Seeking ways to keep bees buzzing

  By Megan BachmanFebruary 8, 2018

  

  The plight of the bumblebee is never far from Nadia Malarkey’s mind, whether  gardening at her West Whiteman Street home, designing properties around town for her landscaping business, or researching pesticide-free lawn care strategies for the Village of Yellow Springs as part of the Environmental Commission.

• Pollution continues in Glen waters

  By Megan BachmanFebruary 1, 2018

  

  At several points on its journey to the Little Miami River in the Glen, where all the water in our watershed drains, the water tested high for E. coli and nitrates, pollutants that can harm local wildlife as well as people and animals who come into contact with the water.