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	<title>Friends of the Edgewood Preserve</title>
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	<description>Cherishing and protecting the Edgewood-Oak Brush Plain State Preserve</description>
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		<title>Comments from Patricia Burkhart on Gov Paterson veto, etc.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, Governor David Paterson vetoed bill S6728a/A9870a (the transfer of Pilgrim land to the Edgewood Preserve), thus caving in to special interests and ignoring a state law that says Pilgrim land no longer needed by the hospital must be incorporated into the Edgewood Preserve.
Among other things, the transfer of this land would have expanded the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=edgewoodpreserve.wordpress.com&blog=3086067&post=34&subd=edgewoodpreserve&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://edgewoodpreserve.wordpress.com/2008/08/07/comments-from-patricia-burkhart-on-gov-paterson-veto-etc/</link>
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		<title>Edgewood: Summer Newsletter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Click here for PDF version of the summer 2008 newsletter.
Friends of Edgewood NEWS
The Quarterly Newsletter of Friends of the Edgewood-Oak Brush Plains Preserve: An all-volunteer, not for profit organization dedicated to protecting the natural beauty &#38; improving the conditions of the Edgewood State Nature Preserve through advocacy and education
Summer 2008 ! Volume 2, Issue 4
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		<link>http://edgewoodpreserve.wordpress.com/2008/07/31/edgewood-summer-newsletter/</link>
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		<title>Action Alert: Your letter can help the preserve</title>
		<description><![CDATA[URGENT &#8211; ask Gov Paterson to sign the EDGEWOOD bill!
!!ACTION ALERT!!
from Friends of the Edgewood Preserve
 

The legislation to transfer land to the Edgewood Preserve
passed the Senate (48-5) on June 12th 
and passed the Assembly (100-0) on June 24th!
 
Thank you to everyone who supported and helped get this far.
We would not have been able to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=edgewoodpreserve.wordpress.com&blog=3086067&post=25&subd=edgewoodpreserve&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://edgewoodpreserve.wordpress.com/2008/07/09/action-alert-your-letter-can-help-the-preserve/</link>
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		<title>Spring 2008 newsletter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hello all,
Click here for the PDF of the Spring 2008 newsletter. Hope you will read and pass on to others.
Enjoy the warmer, longer days&#8230;be well and happy.
Thanks for your support.
Cheers,
Patricia
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		<link>http://edgewoodpreserve.wordpress.com/2008/06/17/spring-2008-newsletter/</link>
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		<title>Urgent action &#8211; Call to save Edgewood Preserve</title>
		<description><![CDATA[action action
URGENT UPDATE-protection for Edgewood Preserve
Last week, the bill (S6728-A) to add additional land (the land that the DOT wanted to use for their Intermodal) to the Edgewood Preserve passed the Senate 48-5 (7 absent).  The companion bill (9870-A) in the Assembly needs your help ASAP!
It is being held up in the Ways and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=edgewoodpreserve.wordpress.com&blog=3086067&post=22&subd=edgewoodpreserve&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://edgewoodpreserve.wordpress.com/2008/06/16/week-of-6172008-urgent-action-call-to-save-edgewood-preserve/</link>
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		<title>Images of the preserve</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Impressions from some amateur photographers and nature lovers, from their cell phone camera. Please consider coming by the preserve. A short drive and no money allows you a sense of being in the wild. The musical sound of various and distinct bird songs is amazing. Makes you understand right away the biodiversity of the preserve.






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		<link>http://edgewoodpreserve.wordpress.com/2008/05/15/images-of-the-preserve/</link>
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		<title>Current concern: stop the LI TRIM</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are currently proposals to build a Truck to Rail Intermodal Facility or TRIM adjacent to the Edgewood Preserve and 1/4 mile from residential areas (mainly Dix Hills, Deer Park and Brentwood). The Friends of the Edgewood Preserve believes that building this facility would be illegal, based on NY State laws, and also a bad [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=edgewoodpreserve.wordpress.com&blog=3086067&post=10&subd=edgewoodpreserve&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://edgewoodpreserve.wordpress.com/2008/03/07/current-concern-stop-the-li-trim/</link>
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		<title>Our ecosystem</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Edgewood-Oak Brush Plain State Preserve is part of the State Nature and Historic Preserve and is the largest parcel of open space west of Brookhaven and the second largest remnant of pitch-pine scrub oak habitat in all of New York State.
The Preserve is an irreplaceable and fragile ecosystem that is home to a wide [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=edgewoodpreserve.wordpress.com&blog=3086067&post=4&subd=edgewoodpreserve&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://edgewoodpreserve.wordpress.com/2008/03/07/our-ecosystem/</link>
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		<title>What do we do?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Friends of the Edgewood-Oak Brush Plains Preserve, is a not-for- profit, all volunteer organization dedicated to improving and maintaining the 813-acre rare pitch pine scruboak state nature preserve, which is located on Commack Road in Deer Park.
The group works both independently of and in cooperation with the NYS Dept. of Environmental Conservation (who owns and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=edgewoodpreserve.wordpress.com&blog=3086067&post=3&subd=edgewoodpreserve&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://edgewoodpreserve.wordpress.com/2008/03/07/what-do-we-do/</link>
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		<title>Hello world!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to the new website for Friends of the Edgewood Preserve. We are working on a more detailed web-site, to feature natural scenes from the preserve. Though, for now, we are glad you stopped by, and hope you will contact us.
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		<link>http://edgewoodpreserve.wordpress.com/2008/03/07/hello-world/</link>
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