FrOGS News Alerts
Eighteen Acres of Promise (2008)
by Judy Kelley-Moberg
FrOGS has been able to acquire an 18-acre patch of uplands and floodplain meadow bordering Quaker Brook at the corner of Haviland Hollow Road and East Branch Road in the Town of Patterson.
Quaker Brook, sometimes called Haviland Hollow Brook, runs through the 18-acre parcel before turning south to join the East Branch of the Croton River in the Great Swamp.
Quaker Brook is not only a major artery that feeds the “heart” of the Great Swamp but it’s also an ecologically unique and important waterway. Fishermen know this brook as a pristine trout stream thought to be one of the rare places where native trout populations can still survive.
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1 Paul Wilhelm // Jun 29, 2008 at 4:49 pm
It’s a great step in the right direction. There was so much algae in the swamp the last time I was there (which I have never seen before) I wonder if there isn’t some environmental problem that isn’t being taken care of.
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