Prospect Park announced as a Blue Belt Storm mitigation site

• News 12: Brooklyn to receive $68M to alleviate flooding to Prospect Park, surrounding areas
• CBS 4: Brooklyn's Prospect Park to receive $50 million in flood-mitigation improvements
• Brooklyn Paper: City to build build 'nature-based' flash flood protections in Prospect Park
• BK Reader: New Bluebelt in Prospect Park Poised to Tackle Brooklyn Flooding
• Gothamist: NYC wants Prospect Park to drain more of Central Brooklyn's floodwater

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" Preserve and cherish the pale blue dot,the only home we've ever known"

                                                                            --Carl Sagan

Tend a real winter garden this year - New Jersey Conservation Foundation

https://www.njconservation.org/winter-garden/

Important read for preservation of creatures and ecology

"Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love—that makes life and nature harmonize."

Mary Ann Evans ( pen name George Eliot) 18th c author














   

Brown pelican sightings in NYC could mean the southern birds are here to stay, according to scientists - CBS New York

https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/brown-pelicans-nyc-jamaica-bay-birds/

" Preserve and cherish the pale blue dot,the only home we've ever known"

                                                                            --Carl Sagan

The real truth about lawns

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1FLQF6Tvo7/

"The crickets felt it was their duty to warn everybody that summertime cannot last for ever. Even on the most beautiful days in the whole year - the days when summer is changing into autumn - the crickets spread the rumour of sadness and change."

E.B. White, Charlotte's Web