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Black Creek

Clintondale NY

7/22

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this is/was Apple country/think agricultural pesticide and fertilizer run off...

"... ...Orchard/Plantation This habitat includes maintained or recently abandoned fruit orchards, tree farms and plant nurseries. ... Orchard/plantation habitats in the study area share characteristics with upland meadows and upland shrublands. Some of the plants and animals found in upland meadows and upland shrubland can be found in orchards, but frequent mowing and pesticide use in fruit orchards may limit the plant and animal species able to utilize orchard/plantation habitat. Therefore, this habitat is considered ecologically significant more for its future values after abandonment than for its current values."

https://wallkillvalleylt.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/habitat-map-report-for-six-towns.pdf

I remember driving cab through this area often with the no serious environmental regulations early 80's, the car being dusted with spray, windshield wipers a necessity, migrant Jamaican Apple workers the only inhabitants, living in shacks...

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