View our Latest News Updates. Also, find our News Archives from 2006 , 2005 , 2004 , 2003 , 2002 , 2001 , 2000 , 1999 , 1998 , 1997 and this page details the battle to save the Klydel Wetland.

Thanks to Mike Igoe of WGRZ-TV for the great work he did in broadcasting our cause. If you missed the July 1, 2002 news segment, view the story by hitting here.

The Klydel Wetland was featured in several state and federal postcard campaigns. View a national postcard campaign from the Sierra Club and the Clean Water Network.

Wetlands are regulated, correct? Check out how regulations did and didn't work for the Klydel Wetland. Read the studies by federal experts concerning the Klydel Wetland and compare their conclusions to a wetland permit application. In response to that permit application, over 800 individuals and organizations wrote to the US Army Corps of Engineers to request denial of a wetland permit and to express support of preservation of this unique wetland. The permit was withdrawn and the property in question is now a nature preserve.

An appeal was made to the NYS Freshwater Wetlands Appeals Board. Here are some thoughts about the NYSDEC and that appeal. Fortunately, the time that it took for the appeal to run its course allowed preservation groups to attain funding to buy the wetland.

Logging in the Klydel Wetland? Yes, it happened-- and here is a web page showing the very photographic logger. The logging was halted and that area is now going to be restored. Read the New York State Sierra Club article that chronicled the story of saving the Klydel Wetland.