Reports & Media

LITERATURE & LETTERS:

• The Fight to Save Glenmere Lake
  The Great Stakes at Glenmere Lake. By Dr. Jonathan Micancin, a Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology at The College of William and Mary

• SEVEN REASONS TO AVOID HERBICIDES IN GLENMERE LAKE
  by Dr. Howard Horowitz, Professor of Geography, Ramapo College 

• Letter to Florida, NY Planning Board
  from Michael D. Merriman, Deputy Regional Permit Administrator, NYS DEC re: "Glenmere Preserve" Adult Community
  October 24, 2007    

• Letter to NYS Assembly's Environmental Committee
  from the GCC re: Bill #A.5691 sponsored by NYS Assemblyman Karl Brabenec proposing to delist the north [sic] cricket frog in the Village of Florida.

REPORTS:

• Orange County Water Authority Glenmere Lake Plan
  The GCC was deeply involved in the planning, generation, editing, and data-sharing of the Glenmere Lake Plan. attending, at the invitation of OCWA and the consulting engineers, every meeting of the planning group.
  The GCC also led the engineers on several field collecting forays of the Glenmere watershed 

• Ecological Issues of Glenmere Lake
  by James "Spider" Barbour

• Glenmere Preserve Draft Environmental Impact Statement
  Click here to see the DEIS of the 210 Glenmere Preserve development slated for the west end of Glenmere Lake

ARTICLES:

• Florida will fight to get cricket frog off endangered list
  The Warwick Advertiser, NY - August 20, 2015

• Black Meadow Creek dam destruction hurt endangered species
  MidHudsonNews.com - July 10, 2012

• Click Here to listen to Hank Gross’ interview with Jay Westerveld 

• Tiny Caller: The Northern Cricket Frog
  The Conservationist Magazine - February 2012

• Click here to hear NPR Radio interview with Jay Westerveld
  July 7, 2011

• High level of aquatic plant die-off at Glenmere Lake
  MidHudsonNews.com - July 7, 2011

• A struggle for the soul of Glenmere
  The Chronicle, NY - June 10, 2011

• Tiny cricket frog getting some aid from New York
  Times Herald-Record, NY - Nov 7, 2010

• Village of Florida prepares to battle state law
  Times Herald-Record, NY - Oct 5, 2010

• Biologist affirms Conservancy’s Glenmere Lake weed premise
  MidHudsonNews.com - Aug 18, 2010

• Pennsylvania to add northern cricket frog to endangered list
  The Chronicle, NY - Feb 19, 2010

• Assemblywoman wants cricket frog off of state's endangered species list
  Times Herald-Record, NY - Feb 5, 2010

• Proposed bill aims to get frog off endangered species list
  The Chronicle, NY - Jan 28, 2010

• Who's Who in Orange County
  Orange Magazine, NY - 2008: Special Issue

• Cricket Frog Halts Development
  Times Herald-Record, NY - Jun 28, 2008

• Tiny - Frog Packs a Wallop: Lake Spared Herbicide
  The Times Herald-Record, March 25, 2008

• Glenmere Lake Discovery Day attracts more than 100 people
  The Warwick Advertiser, April 5, 2008

• Endangered Cricket Frog Calls Florida "Home"
  The Florida Onion, November 2007

• Chester: Glenmere Lake Park Plan Shelved
  The Times Herald Record, September 22, 2006

• C&D debris dumped at Glenmere Lake
  Mid-Hudson News, October 7-8, 2006

• Orange County, DEC investigate illegal dump near Glenmere Lake
  The Times Herald Record, October 7, 2006

• Glenmere Lake Creek Dumping Unresolved
  The Times Herald Record, October 21, 2006

• The Trouble with (non-local) Turtles
  The Times Herald Record, October 22, 2006

• Free Spirited Explorer
  The Times Herald Record, October 01, 2005

• NATURE'S LESSONS: Science teacher explores new terrain replete with turtles, herons and muskrats
  NYSUT, November 20, 2002
  News 12 Hudson Valley report

OPINIONS:

• Endangered law, too
  Times Herald-Record, NY - Oct 11, 2010

• Don't let the law endanger science
  Times Herald-Record Editorial, NY - Oct 7, 2010

• Restoration did not need to harm endangered frog
  The Chronicle, NY - Feb 12, 2010

• There’s much at stake at Glenmere Lake
  The Chronicle, NY - Feb 5, 2010

• Frog story included many serious errors
  The Chronicle, NY - Feb 5, 2010

• No excuse to use herbicide in Glenmere
  Times Herald-Record Editorial, NY - Mar 27, 2008

• Pave Paradise
  Thoughts from a homeowner on Glenmere Lake 

• Sad About Lake Woe
  The Times Herald Record, November 06, 2007

• Blame the state, not Chester, for Glenmere mess
  The Chronicle, Straus News, October 17, 2006