pathways

The official publication of the New York State Outdoor Education Association
Spring 2004

This Place Long Island

by John Turner, co-founder of the Pine Barrens Society and current board member,
on the occasion of the Society’s 25th Anniversary

Paradise Found:
This place, Long Island, with its basement of
450 million year old schist bedrock dating back to the
Silurian Period of the Paleozoic Era; a time when the
land was first invaded by vascular plants, when the first
jawed fishes plied primordial oceans;
This place, Long Island, where along the base
of its North Shore bluffs ooze cretaceous clays
containing leafy imprints of trees a Long
Islander would hardly recognize —
cinnamon, magnolia, gingko, euca-
lyptus, sequoia, and fig trees — im-
prints in materials laid down in
a vast delta upon the basement
of bedrock from the eroding
Appalachian Mountains;
This place, Long Is-
land, a million acre sandbox
on permanent loan from
New England, sculpted by
two continental ice sheets, 500
feet high along their moving
fronts, pocked by kettleholes,
rounded by kames and moraines, with
two bony fingers that jut into the briny foam
wash of the Atlantic;
This place, Long Island, whose outwash plain
during the ice age extended to the edge of the conti-
nental shelf, where rushing braided streams fed from
the melting ice sheets cascaded as waterfalls into the
lowered Atlantic;
This place, Long Island, with its hidden, un-
derground aquifers more than a thousand feet deep,
containing incomprehensible amounts of water - 70
trillion gallons- enough to fill all of Manhattan Island
to the height of the top of the Empire State Building; if
your thirst is quenched from the Lloyd aquifer, the deep-
est one, you’re drinking water that fell from rain clouds
that formed a thousand years before the birth
of Christ;
This place, Long Island, home
thousands of years ago to species of
the boreal forests - red spruce, arc-
tic willow, and crowberry, and
mastodons — yes, mast-
odons!— whose sets of mo-
lar teeth have been unearthed
by bottom draggers fishing the
Atlantic. And maybe, just
maybe, the skies over Long
Island during this time held the
shadows of California condors,
whose bones have been found
within cavesin eastern New York;
This place, Long Island, that in
1609 Robert Juett, who was Henry Hudson’s first
mate, exclaimed as his ship, the Half Moon, slipped in
New York Harbor, “we found a land full of great oaks,
with grass and flowers, as pleasant as ever has been
seen.” Daniel Denton, 61 years later had this to say,
“The greatest part of the Island is very full of Timber,
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as Oaks, white and red, Walnut-trees, Chest- of the Hempstead Plains gone, to make
nut-trees, which yield store of mast for way for modern day suburbia that
swine…also Maples, Cedars, Saxifrage, spread post World War II and where
Beach, Birch, Holly, Hazel, with many 95% of the coastal salt marshes fring-
sorts more…the Countrey itself sends ing Nassau County’s South Shore
forth such a fragrant smell that it may be have been filled or bulkheaded;
perceived at Sea before they can make This place, Long Island, where half of the
the land.” Pine Barrens have been lost, where more
This place, Long Island, than half of our fertile farmland is gone, and where a
where the plaintive echoes of the Eskimo Curlew once suite of invasive plant species - like purple loosestrife,
ringed across unbroken expanses of salt marsh and Asiatic bittersweet, Japanese knotweed and barberry,
whose forests filled with the howls of timber wolves garlic mustard, and porcelainberry - threaten the eco-
and the whistling of wings from logical integrity of the places we care about;
countless passenger pigeons and This place, Long Island, where 2.6 million Long
whose thickets of scrub oak ech- Islanders work, live, and play above their water sup-
oed with the booming mating calls ply and due to this unique relationship have a ground-
of the heath hen; water system degraded by contamination from a host
This place, Long Island, which once knew black of chemical acronyms enough to make the makers of
bear, mountain lion, beaver, cricket frogs, and timber alphabet soup proud including MTBE, the latest bad
rattlesnake; actor to explode on the scene; methyl tertiary butyl
This place, Long Island, saw the last known La- ether — the name sounds cool but its
brador duck pass through the veil of extinction, as a impact to our water supply most cer-
young male mortally wounded by a gunner, crashed tainly isn’t;
into the wavelet waters of the Great South Bay in 1875;
This place, Long Island, was once the osprey Paradise Redux:
capital of the world with more than one hundred of the And while diminished, this
their jumble stick nests on Gardiner’s Island alone and place Long Island today still provides
an estimated 2,000 nests on eastern Long Island; home and hotel accommodations to
This place, Long Island, boasted the largest more than 300 species of resident and migratory birds,
some of which are hemispheric globetrotters passing
prairie east of the Mississippi River; it is still called the
Hempstead Plains but it is a tiny, tiny fragment of the through on their magical journeys that connect their
sea of grasses that once graced central Nassau County breeding and wintering grounds (it reminds me of the
and gave rise to the communities of Plainedge and classic surfing movie in search of perpetual summer);
Plainview; and the Plains merged with the dense shrubby a spectacular example is the blackpoll warbler, which
oak thickets of the Oak Brush Plains at a place later to in breeding plumage is reminiscent of a black-capped
chickadee. In the fall the overwhelming majority of
be called Island Trees - where islands of pitch pine stood
surrounded by prairie grass; individuals of this species, which weigh less than an
This place, Long Island, where hessel hairstreak ounce, move east to the Canadian Maritimes, New
butterflies once danced in the shadowy swamps of At- England and Long Island, some having flown as much
lantic white cedar lining tea colored streams which as 3,000 miles from Alaska. And then in a 2,300 mile
drained the interior pine forests that provided water to leap of faith these feathered puffs, (as one writer has
productive cranberry bogs that made Suffolk County noted you could mail one using a single postage stamp)
the third largest cranberry producing area in the US a launch out in favorable weather conditions (a high pres-
century and a half ago; sure system with winds from the northwest) into the
hostile Atlantic. At first they head to the southeast stay-
Paradise Reduced: ing the course until about Bermuda where they pick
This place, Long Island, with the all but 40 acres up the trade winds that redirect them to the southwest
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making landfall typically in Venezeula or Guyana
some 72 hours later. That’s right folks — after lift-
ing from Long Island they fly non–stop for as much
as three days straight. During this time they will have
flapped their wings an estimated 3 million times, never
more than a second or two rest between flaps, and as
one researcher noted if they burned gasoline instead
of stored fat they would get about 720,000 miles to
the gallon.
This place, Long Island, whose coast still of-
fers nurturing habitat for dozens of beach-dependent
species including piping plovers - 62 new youngsters
growing up on Southampton beaches this year alone
- tens of thousands of sea beach amaranth Amaranthus
pumilus, a modest plant if ever there was one, and
where earlier this year at Orient Point State Park
seabeach purslane, Sesuvium maritimum, was redis-
covered after an absence of 90 years;
This place, this crowded Long Island, still
boasts whales frolicking off shore and harbor seals
onshore and where at the mouth of the Peconic
Bay harbors large rafts of sea ducks in
the winter – the vocal long-tailed
ducks with their bubblegum-pink
bills, the red-breasted mergan-
sers with their punk rocker
haircuts, and the countless
number of stout-bodied
scoters - white-winged
scoters, the clownish
surf, and the not so com-
mon common scoter; one
flock of scoters I counted,
more than a decade ago, from the pavilion at Montauk
Point State Park contained 35,000 birds and where
last winter I was privileged to watch as a thousand
gannets dropped like torpedos from 100 feet, send-
ing up ten foot plumes, as they participated in a full-
fledged feeding frenzy preying on a school of herring
estimated to contain 400 million fish;
This place, Long Island, which still boasts
nearly three dozen species of native orchids. And lurk-
ing in the wetlands, now pull in your fingers and toes
- are plants that eat animals – more than half a dozen
bladderworts, the unmistakeable pitcher plant and
three species of sticky sundews (beautiful but deadly!);
This place, this crowded Long Island, still har-
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bors tigers in the night, as in tiger salamanders; if
you doubt this go then on a warm and dank late
winter night when the scent of pine is strong
and you can watch these magnificent
ambystomid salamanders – the mole sala-
manders as charismatic as any amphibian
can be - engaged in an eons old urge to
reproduce as they crawl down to their
vernal ponds in search of a mate;
This place, Long Island, where
the striped skunk hangs on by its fingernails and the gray
fox by the tips of its fingernails;
This place, Long Island, whose citizens led the
successful fight to end the DDT madness, who passed a
county bottle bill which catalyzed a state bottle law, who
banned sudsy detergents, who have voted for 19 out 20
ballot measures to protect land, and who dedicated its
four rivers to the state’s river protection program; whose
bays and estuaries – the Peconic Bay, Moriches and Great
South Bay, and LI Sound are the focus of curative mea-
sures to restore their ecological health and vitality;
This place, Long Island, which has spent more
than half a billion dollars to protect its wild places and
open spaces and has the only federally designated wil-
derness area in New York State – on that most fragile
and dynamic strand of sand called Fire Island. This, in
a state that boasts the Adirondack and Catskills
forest preserves;
This place Long Island, reaching from
the shadow of the great metropolis, has pro-
tected nearly 60,000 acres of land in the Pine
Barrens; do the math and we’re talking nearly 100 square
miles of land; a big enough place for you to get lost in
the woods, large enough for you to be able to walk from
Rocky Point to the Shinnecock Canal, your feet never
leaving public parkland, that’s your land and that’s my
land; and it’s the land of the prairie warbler and Mr.
Drink-your-tea.
This place Long Island where on the 13,000 acre
Montauk Peninsula, from the Napeague strip east, two-
thirds of all the land is publicly-owned parkland;
Here on Long Island we have lost much but we
achieved so much. Perhaps we needed loss to under-
stand what we wanted to gain. So let’s give due to the
great and lasting work of Long Island’s great conserva-
tionists and naturalists – people such as Dennis Puleston,
Gil Raynor, Roy Latham, Leroy Wilcox, Edwin Way
Teale, and Robert Cushman Murphy who was
the first to advocate for the establishment of a
Pine Barrens preserve “urging governmental of-
ficials to make it a really big preserve.” Let’s
appreciate the ongoing and tireless efforts of
folks like Paul Stoutenburgh, Art Cooley, Jim
Tripp, Steve Englebright, Dick Amper, Marilyn
England, Dan Morris, and many, many others.
Most importantly, let’s continue to marvel at and
revel in the magic of the natural world as it un-
folds around us, in infinite variety and expres-
sion every day. Like ripples in a pond caused by
a tossed pebble let’s carry our efforts forward
and outward to convince others to protect those
places so special to us and lets continue to re-
veal to our fellow Long Islanders by informing,
educating and advocating, and most of all cel-
ebrating, the very special natural treasures that
collectively comprise Long Island. Fill your
pockets deeply with pebbles and toss often.
Thank you.
The 2004
Conference
Committee
would like
you to
explore:
This place,
Long Island
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High Ropes
Adventures With
Mom
It was an early Saturday
morning and my mother and me
were going to spend the day at
Sharpe Reservation. They were
hosting the Maple Festival and there
were many activities to sign up for.
I begged my mom to try out the high
ropes – something that I had never
done before. She was resistant, but
soon found herself in the middle of
the woods wearing a harness and
helmet. I was right besides her.
The first course was the
“Catwalk” about 35 feet up in the
air. It was a 20-foot long, wet, slip-
pery, bumpy, giant log, tree trunk
that we had to walk across. There
was nothing to hold onto and we
spread our arms out like a bird to
balance. The rain was so distract-
ing and the first step was the hard-
est decision ever. To let go of your
only thing to hold onto, to pretend
there’s nothing to catch you if you
fall, to move your foot, the simplest
little motion, and once you let go,
there’s no going back, you have to
keep your place.
We all made our way what might happen. The goal was
across the Catwalk with- to take a leap and forget about the
out tripping, but the next fall, to jump off without a care, and
challenge was more reach for that bar.
frightening than ever. I held my breath and wiped
The Pamper Pole… a away the rain on my face.
telephone pole, 45 or 50 One…I counted in my head
feet up in the air. Climb- and ignored my thoughts telling me
ing up it didn’t seem so I was stupid to jump off a pole,
difficult, but finally at the Two…Thought that I
top, I noticed the earth would die, or hurt myself
so far down below me. I Three…I jumped off and
was told to get both feet saw the ground zooming in at me,
on top of this 6-inch wide round the bar jumped away from my
surface…with nothing to hold on to reach like it had a mind of its own,
or give me support. I remember there and my eyes locked shut. I was si-
was grit in my mouth, and I was lent and smiling but my head was
grinding it between my teeth. There screaming and telling me how
were soggy wood chips on my jeans, senseless I was. Then the rope
and my pants were too tight to let caught me and my mind was
me bend easily. The rain was pound- proved wrong. Lowered to the
ing on my head and dripping into my ground I had missed the trapeze,
eyes, I couldn’t see, but I felt the but felt accomplished that I had not
views of every single person down missed this experience.
below. Their necks bent back as far
as they could go, all staring up at me, Bayla Laks, age 13
all silent. Bayla is the daughter of Reba
I focused on the wood circle, Laks, Easter Region Director
I focused so hard on it that the rest
of the world blurred out and the
platform became the ground. For
if it were so, then lifting my feet
up a foot or so, would not be as
hard or scary.
It seemed like forever, to
slowly straighten my legs, the cold
water dripping down my back.
The wind started blowing and the
pole was shaking, I was standing
still and stiff like a statue, trying
to keep my balance, I was stand-
ing on top of a telephone pole.
Turning to the side, I looked out
through the fog. There was a tra-
peze suspended in the air, and it
creaked whining sounds with the
wind. I looked at it and imagined
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 Sharpe Environmental Center’s “Maple Celebration” a Sweet Success
Sharpe Environmental Cen-
ter held its first annual “Maple Cel-
ebration” on March 6-7. The con-
ference was a huge success, with
over 75 people in attendance for the
workshops, activities, entertain-
ment, and fun. Educators from sev-
eral Hudson Valley environmental
centers took advantage of the op-
portunity for professional develop-
ment, and participated in a variety
of educational programs. The ac-
tivities of the weekend included,
among many others, Project WILD
and Aquatic WILD training by the
New York State Department of En-
vironmental Conservation, maple
sugaring tours of Sharpe Reserva-
tion and two other local operations,
a wolf program by the Wolf Con-
servation Center, and a performance
by bluegrass trio “Two Dollar
Goat.”
The event culminated in the
Maple Syrup Competition, held at
breakfast on Sunday. There were
six syrups entered from independent
producers in the Hudson Valley:
Sharpe Reservation, Taconic Out-
door Education Center, Ashokan
Field Campus, Teatown Lake Res-
ervation, and Museum of the
Hudson Highlands, as well as “Fish
Family Suburban Sap,” produced by
a young man named Jacob Fish.
Several of the producers themselves
were in the audience, including the
“Maple Ambassador” of the Hudson
Valley, John Stowell.
The setting for the compe-
tition was the Hidden Valley Dining
Hall, and the anticipation of the au-
dience mounted as the five judges
approached their tasting stations.
Methodically, the judges worked
their way through tasting each of the
unlabeled six syrups, cleansing their
palates when necessary with bread
and water. The only sound was that
of sugar-rich blood coursing
through the veins of the judges as
they made their final decisions, rat-
ing each of the syrups on a score
sheet. The tension grew as the re-
sults were tabulated by the contest
officials. Finally, the winners for this
year were announced:
Best Overall Taste: Taconic
Outdoor Education Center
Best Color/Texture: Sharpe Envi-
ronmental Center
Most Attractive/Creative Packag-
ing: Sharpe Environmental Center
All participants received a
handsome certificate, and the highly
communicable “Maple Syrup Bug”
continued its ferocious spread, fu-
eling producers to work even harder
on their syrup for next year’s com-
petition.
Tim Stanley, organizer of “A
Maple Celebration,” would like to
thank all who attended, as well as
those who donated their time and
skills to be workshop presenters.
Indeed, “A Maple Celebration”
proved to be another successful and
productive event sponsored by the
New York State Outdoor Education
Association!
Article by: Nathan Keefe
March 8, 2004

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 Intertidal Zones – Living on the Edge
There is a
world be-tween the ocean and the
land. The creatures and the plants
that live there cannot live anywhere
else. Life survives the frozen days
of February and the static heat of
August without leaving the zone.
Sometimes people run
through the zone splashing in
tidepools, skimming across the rip-
pling waves. Sometimes, people
hide shivering in the storms, lashed
by lightning and blown by hurricane
force winds.
But always the mole owls
burrow, the Irish moss holds fast to
the rock base, the sea jellies float in
the tide.
I turn to this zone for inspi-
ration. Survival against the odds,
life on the edge. But there are so
Planning For Green:
Hudson Valley
Perspectives
The 2004 New York ReLeaf
Conference will be held at Marist
College in Poughkeepsie on July 8-
10, with an emphasis on preserving
and creating green space in the midst
of active development. It will be co-
sponsored by Hudson Valley ReLeaf,
the NYS Urban and Community For-
estry Council and NYS Department
of Conservation’s Urban Forestry
Program.
Keynoter will be Randall
Arendt, a well-known authority on
sustainable development and the
By Sharon Kennelty-Cohen
many other reasons why the Inter-
tidal zone is important. As a food
resource, plankton is the lowest
rung on the food chain and floats to
the shore constantly. Thousands of
panktonic plants and animals are
microscopic but some aren’t.
Seaweeds are plankton and anyone
who enjoys ice cream or sushi or
McDonald’s shakes has eaten it.
Crabs, oysters, clams and
scallops thrive in protected areas of
the coastline. All are wonderful both
as food for people and for birds.
Horseshoe crabs mate in
shallow water just like they did
when dinosaurs walked past.
The Intertidal zone is also a
primary indicator of problems and
things to come. When species are
threatened the zone reacts. Change
many workshop speakers will in-
clude Robert Pirani of Regional Plan
Association, Carol Ash of Palisades
Park Commission, John Schwartz of
NYC Department of Environmen-
tal Protection Watershed Program
and representatives of Scenic
Hudson and the Institute for Eco-
systems Studies. Other speakers
will represent local planners and
land conservation organizations.
Tours to IES and Quaker Hill Na-
tive Plant Garden will be featured,
as well as one to the Newburgh jlnwolfinc@aol.com.
waterfront, where a brownfield is Nancy Wolf
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can come suddenly or slowly but
there is always change.
As the gateway to the
ocean, pollution from the land first
shows its ugly head in the Intertidal
zone. Similarly the strength and
rage of the ocean first impacts the
land on the shore.
If you look at the world
map, note the coastline. Life thrives
at the edge of the sea, but it can be
a hard and short life.
Some of the zones are
steep and rocky, some
stretch for miles of
mudflats. All of
them are fasci-
nating and
worth a look.
Visit an Inter-
tidal zone and
see.
being re-developed. The Friday
night picnic will be held at the
Wallace Center at Hyde Park, home
of FDR. (A life-sized statue will
allow conference-goers to have a
picture taken with the late President
and Fala!)
This will be an affordable
conference, as always, with regis-
trations at $50 for Council Mem-
bers and $60 for non-Members.
Dorm accommodations at Marist
College are available and
Poughkeepsie may be reach by
AMTRAK or Metro North. For
more information, call Nancy Wolf
at (718) 834-4589 or e-mail her
 37th Annual Conference
New York’s Flowing Waters
Connecting People, Places & Time
November 4-7, 2004
Montauk Yacht Club Resort and Marina
Montauk NY

NYSOEA’s 2004 annual conference will be held at the

easternmost part of our state, the very tip of Long Island
Montauk! It will take place at the Montauk Yacht Club
Resort and Marina.
As the title implies, the waters of New York connect us all and at the conference, we
will explore this theme further, from water cycles to maritime history to marine
biology and more! Conference workshops will support New York State & National
Learning Standards. The conference facility sits directly on the Montauk Harbor and
within a short distance we have access to the ocean, bays, estuaries, rivers, ponds,
sand dunes, woods, glacial morraines, pine barrens and many other outdoor “class-
rooms”.

Please contact one of the conference co-chairs to

see how you can help:
Sue McGuire: samcguire@hotmail.com
Elaine Drazin Young: elaine114@aol.com

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 Who We Are We assist our members in
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sociation is the leading professional skills in using the environment for New York's
group supporting outdoor educa- responsible education purposes. Flowing Waters
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terpretive services in New York supporting the fields of environmen- Places and Time
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