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Scenic Hudsons Mission Area Hudson Valley

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  • Hudson Valley

Scenic Hudson’s Mission Area

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Conserving the Rural Landscape

  • 1. Why Conserve the Rural

Landscape?

  • 2. Making Choices with

Limited Resources -- Techniques for Prioritizing Conservation

  • 3. Funding Options
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Why Conserve the Rural Landscape?

  • To safeguard our regional tourism economy
  • To protect water quality
  • To conserve our region’s biodiversity
  • To conserve our “foodshed” – our agricultural land

base, food supply, and farm economy

  • To help the region adapt to climate change
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Economic Benefits of Open Space – The Multiplier Effect

  • Every $1 New York State invests protecting

land and water through the Environmental Protection Fund (EPF), $7 is returned to local communities in economic benefits.

– Source: Trust for Public Land, 2012

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Economic Benefits of Open Space - Nationwide

  • Americans spend over $730 billion a year on
  • utdoor recreation.
  • Hunting, fishing and wildlife-watching alone

generated $145 billion in spending in 2011 – 1% of the U.S. gross domestic product.

– Source: National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, 2011

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Economic Benefits of Open Space – in New York

  • Outdoor recreation delivers:

– $11.3 billion annually in sales and services – Nearly $800 million in state tax revenue – Source: National Fish & Wildlife Foundation, 2011

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Walkway Over the Hudson’s 2012 Economic Impact Study

  • 500,000 annual visitors, 48% from outside

region

  • Annual direct spending by non-locals: $15 mm
  • Direct wages generated: $6 million
  • Annual county revenue: $780,000
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Economic Benefits of Open Space – More Multiplier Effects

In May 2012, Northwind Farms of Tivoli and Hudson Solar of Rhinebeck announced the installation of a new photovoltaic array that is projected to gather 20 percent more electricity than the farm uses each year.

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Economic Benefits of Open Space Conservation – Water Quality

  • Conserving wetlands and waterfronts = effective, inexpensive

flood control.

  • Each acre of wetlands in New York = $689,000 in annual

storm-protection benefits -- soaking up water and removing pollutants before they reach drinking-water supplies.

  • Forests: every 10% of a watershed's forest cover eliminates

20% of water-treatment costs. – Source: Trust for Public Land and American Water Works Association, 2004

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The Hudson Valley Ecosystem: A Crossroads of Biodiversity

  • A spectacular ecological mixing

zone - some of the highest levels

  • f species richness in NY State.
  • A trio of geological, biological

and hydrological forces has created an unusually complex ecosystem.

  • Globally significant hotspots of

turtle, salamander and dragonfly species.

  • Critically important tidal and

upland breeding areas for

  • ceangoing fish and resident and

migrant bird species.

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Climate Change

  • Anticipating sea level

rise

  • Connectivity – for

species migration

  • Protecting the “green

infrastructure” that fosters resilience

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Kingston Waterfront Flooding April 16, 2005 Sea Level Rise by 2080

Central Range: 12” - 23” Rapid Ice Melt: 41” - 55”

Source: NYS Sea Level Rise Task Force Final Report 2010

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Hurricane Irene, 2011

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Hurricane Sandy, 2012

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What can we do?

  • Understand risks to public

infrastructure

  • Steer development away

from shorelines and floodplains

  • Avoid construction of

bulkheads, levees and dikes

  • Employ softer, greener

shoreline treatments where appropriate

  • Adapt to increasing water

levels

  • Protect wetlands and allow

them to migrate in/upland

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Strategy: Land Protection

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Climate Resiliency: Safeguarding Riparian Corridors

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  • 2. Making Choices - Techniques for

Prioritizing Conservation Work

  • Scenic Hudson’s Scenic and Ecological

Prioritization

  • Scenic Hudson’s Farmland Prioritization
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Scenic Views Conservation

Scenic Areas of Statewide Significance (SASS) Viewshed Analysis from Public Viewpoints

Scenic / Ecological Model

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Ecological / Habitat Conservation

Biologically Important Areas (DEC) Natural Heritage Program Species Data

Scenic / Ecological Model

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GIS Modeling

Scenic Areas (1-3)

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Viewshed Analysis (1-3)

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Biologically Important Areas (1-3)

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Species Data (1-3)

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Scenic / Ecological Conservation Value (1-12)

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Basemap

Albany New York Poughkeepsie

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SASS

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Viewshed Analysis

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BIA’s

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Species Data

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Modeled Together

1 – Some Value 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 – Highest Value

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  • 3. Funding for Land Conservation –

NY State

  • New York State EPF – Municipal Parks Grants,

Farmland Protection Program, Open Space Acquisition

– EPF is at $134 million – Was at $250 million in 2008 – Advocates are calling for at least $164 million next year – Funding sources: State’s Real Estate Transfer Tax; “Bigger, Better Bottle Bill” revenues

  • Bonding assistance to municipalities through

Environmental Facilities Corp.

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Funding for Land Conservation – Federal Programs

  • Land and Water Conservation Fund (National Park

Service) – part of budget negotiations

  • Forest Legacy Program (US Forest Service) - $60

million nationwide

  • Highlands Conservation Act (US Fish and Wildlife

Service) - $5 million to four states

  • Coastal and Estuarine Land Protection Program

(NOAA) - $3 million nationwide

  • Farm and Ranchland Protection Program (USDA’s

NCRS) - $4 mm to New York

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Other Sources of Land Conservation Funding

  • Partnering with larger conservation groups
  • Seller financing
  • Municipal bonding and community

preservation funding

  • Watershed Improvement Districts (new state

law in 2012)

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Local Open Space Programs

  • Red Hook: $3.5 mm open space fund and

Community Preservation Act

  • Warwick: $9 mm farmland protection fund

and Community Preservation Act

  • Beekman: $3 mm open space fund
  • New Paltz: $2mm open space fund
  • Many towns in Westchester - $11 mm since

2005

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2012 Open Space Funding Referenda

  • 57 measures on local and statewide ballots in

21 states

  • 46 passed (81% approval rate)
  • Will provide more than $2 billion overall,

including $767 million in new money for land conservation to protect water quality, working farms, and create new parks and preserves.

  • In New York: Bedford and Pound Ridge
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