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Land & Environmental Section :: Page 25

  • Yellow Springs youth lead their cattle to fair glory

    By Lauren HeatonAugust 3, 2012

    Yellow Springs and Miami Township youth showed the animals they raised this year at this week’s Greene County Fair.

  • Drought affects crops, lawns

    By Megan BachmanAugust 2, 2012

    The soybeans at Craig Corry’s Miami Township farm only reach to his knees, when they should be nearly waist high at this point in the season. The moderate drought in the Dayton area has stunted the growth of area soybeans and corn, threatening to cut into yields. (Photo by Megan Bachman)

    The hot and dry weather this summer has no doubt stressed local homeowners whose lawns have turned brown from lack of rain. But even more stressed are area crops.

  • Choice of replacement trees complex

    By Lauren Heaton

    “The right tree for the right location” is a phrase oft repeated by arborists dispensing long-term landscaping advice. It was used several times last week by those focused on deciding how to replace the trees that line the downtown.

  • If pears are removed, what should succeed them?

    By Lauren HeatonJuly 25, 2012

    Local arborists suggested a few species of trees that might possibly be effective replacements for the Bradford pears downtown.

  • Village want to have their trees and defend them too

    By Lauren HeatonJuly 16, 2012

    Last week villagers protested a plan to remove the Bradford pear trees downtown.

  • Village Council— TLT seeks preservation funds

    By Diane ChiddisterJuly 5, 2012

    At their June 18 meeting, Village Council members heard an appeal from Tecumseh Land Trust, or TLT, asking that Village government help preserve Glen Helen.

  • Group urges setting precedent in opposing oil, gas drilling

    By Megan Bachman

    Yellow Springs may be the first community in Ohio to ban oil and gas drilling and waste wells within its municipal limits using a rights-based ordinance.

  • Fracking forum to push for YS ban

    By Megan BachmanJune 26, 2012

    West Bay Exploration, a Michigan oil and gas company, had received a permit from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources to drill an exploratory oil well on a Miami Township property. Shown is a temporary drilling rig in southern Michigan, which is somewhat larger than what would be used in this area. (Submitted photo by West Bay Exploration)

    Environmental experts will share ways Yellow Springs can avoid contamination from oil and gas drilling and fracking waste wells at a forum on Saturday.

  • GMHA gardens on chopping block

    By Megan BachmanJune 21, 2012

    Daniel Pearson planted a low-maintenance cover crop of violets in the backyard of his Lawson Place residence. The violets don’t need to be mowed, keep the ground from getting waterlogged and provide a tasty treat to Pearson, he said. Pearson worries herbicides will be used to kill the vegetation, which is out of compliance with the property owners, Greene Metropolitian Housing Authority. (Photo by Megan Bachman)

    Patricia High is dejected because she has until July 1 to transplant most of her beautiful garden at her Lawson Place unit, or the Greene Metropolitan Housing Authority will remove the plantings.

  • Stalled greenspace funds released

    By Megan BachmanJune 20, 2012

    Boy Scouts at Camp Birch cheered at the news that Clean Ohio finally received funding for its open space and agricultural easement purchase programs. Last year Camp Birch used more than $600,000 from the statewide program to permanently protect the farms and wetlands at the 400-acre, 80-year-old camp. Pictured is Springfield Troupe #311, along with, front center, Don Hollister of Environment Ohio and Krista Magaw of Tecumseh Land Trust.

    Thanks to the tireless efforts of Krista Magaw of the Tecumseh Land Trust, Don Hollister of Ohio League of Conservation Voters and several other environmental groups, Clean Ohio’s open space and agricultural easement purchase programs are once again fully funded.

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