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Shawangunk Kill

Gardiner NY

7/28

New Moon 5˚ Leo and Jupiter/Aries 8˚ retrogrades 7/28, 2022

Great Blue Heron greeted amongst the stones here... 1/4 mile downstream is confluence Shawangunk Kill and Wallkill, with private access...

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"...In the early 1990s, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, when it was researching the fate of the former Galeville air base site (now Shawangunk Grasslands National Wildlife Refuge) found that the lower Shawangunk (from its mouth to Pine Bush) supports an unusually diverse plant and animal community for the region due to the absence of any serious impoundment along the upper river. It reported no less than six species of freshwater mussels, including the rare swollen wedge mussel, and 31 species of fish. Among the latter were the rare Notropis amoenus (comely shiner), Notropis stramineus (sand shiner, Percina caproedes (logperch), Lepomis auritis (redbreasted sunfish) and Noturus insignis (margined madtom

The study found that the region supports the only known community of Diarrhena obovata (beakgrass) in the state. Other rare plants in the lower Shawangunk Kill include threadfoot on submerged ledges, sharp-winged monkeyflower, wingstem and redrooted flatsedge along the stream itself, with Davis' sedge, swamp agrimony, Aster vimeneus (small white aster) and violet bushclover joining the beakgrass in the flood plains. ..."

Due to the minimal development (mostly agricultural) within much of its watershed, there is very little pollution.^[2] In 2015 the town council members of Wallkill, through which five miles (8.0 km) of the stream flows, enacted a law to protect the Shawangunk Kill. It bars any construction (including roads), clear cutting, dumping or septic systems within 100 feet (30 m) of the high water mark, Crawford, to the north, also has in place limits on new construction and rebuilding in the stream's vicinity, and in Mount Hope much of the land around it is owned by the municipality. "

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shawangunk_Kill

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