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26,000 Birds Shot Around JFK In The Name Of Safety; Many Of The Birds Considered Protected

The Snowy Owl was recently removed from the kill list. But bird killing still goes on. (Photo submitted by Stuart Fries, but taken by anonymous friend)The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey killed 26,000 birds over the last four years who had the misfortune of being

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Midwood Resident Crashes Private Plane In New Jersey

Source: Fairfield PoliceMidwood resident Chaim Masri, 46, crashed a single-engine Cesna Model 172 after touching down at a Fairfield, New Jersey, airport on Monday evening. Masri brought the small plane in for a landing at Essex County Airport just before 7:00 p.m. When the plane hit the runway,

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Port Authority Removes Snowy Owls From Airport Kill List After Outcry

A snowy owl spotted in Jamaica Bay in 2011 (Photo submitted by Stuart Fries, but taken by anonymous friend)UPDATE (11:00 a.m.): Apparently we were a little slow to this story, and a reader in the comments points out that the owls will now be trapped instead of

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Jamaica Bay Geese Rounded Up For Annual Slaughter

Hundreds of Canada geese were rounded up in Jamaica Bay for the second year in a row. The captured geese will be euthanized in the name of human air safety. The New York Times is reporting [http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/02/annual-goose-roundup-under-way-in-jamaica-bay/?_r=0] that the controlled

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Bring A Touch Of Mother Nature To Our Airports

Source: allairports.netJamaica Bay is one of Mother Nature’s precious jewels, filling our lives with wondrous natural fauna and cute little baby ducks [/tomorrow-jamaica-bay-task-force-public-meeting/]. An airport is the polar opposite [/jfk-airport-plan-to-discharge-toxic-chemicals-into-jamaica-bay-sparks-backlash-from-environmentalists/] . Airports are environmental hazard zones, spewing pollution, chemicals and other toxins into the wide-open spaces they have trampled

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Congress To Vote On Jamaica Bay Pipeline Today, Perhaps For The Last Time

The proposed placement of natural gas pipelines from Williams and National Grid. Source: WilliamsAccording to the legislative calendar [http://www.majorityleader.gov/Floor/daily.html] for the House of Representatives, H.R. 2606, better known as the New York City Natural Gas Supply Enhancement Act or the Jamaica Bay pipeline,

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Jamaica Bay Pipeline Opponents Speak Out Following Senate Approval

CARP members collecting petitions at Riis Park.We reported on Monday about the United States Senate giving the green light [/pipeline-bill-passes-pipeline-will-be-constructed-in-jamaica-bay/] to H.R. 2606 [http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d112:H.R.2606:], clearing one of the last major hurdles to the installation of a natural gas

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Public Hearings On Jamaica Bay Natural Gas Pipeline

The following was sent to us from the Jamaica Bay Ecowatchers: > The staff of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC or Commission) will prepare an environmental impact statement (EIS) that will discuss the environmental impacts of the Rockaway Delivery Lateral Project involving construction and operation of facilities by Transcontinental Gas

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A Film Scout’s Frolic Through Floyd Bennett Field

Floyd Bennett Field's world with wings insignia on the Administration building's façade. Source: ScoutingNYNick Carr, our favorite movie location scout (do you know any others?), posted an exhaustively breathtaking photo essay of Floyd Bennett Field [http://www.scoutingny.com/?p=4903] on his website, “ScoutingNY [http://www.scoutingny.com/],” a

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Tempers Flare Over Jamaica Bay Airport Expansion

Weiner spoke against the RPA plan (Source: A Walk In The Park)Members of the Jamaica Bay Task Force Group (JBTF) hosted a meeting last week to decry plans calling for the destruction of 400 acres of Jamaica Bay wetlands to clear the path for a runway expansion project at