{"id":4928,"date":"2011-10-10T05:33:18","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T09:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=4928"},"modified":"2011-10-17T09:53:42","modified_gmt":"2011-10-17T13:53:42","slug":"morning-read-endangered-owl-advocates-clash-with-north-country-developer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/10\/10\/morning-read-endangered-owl-advocates-clash-with-north-country-developer\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Read:  Endangered owl advocates clash with North Country developer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4930\" style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4930\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/10\/10\/morning-read-endangered-owl-advocates-clash-with-north-country-developer\/owl-wikipedia\/\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4930\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4930\" title=\"A short eared owl in flight (Photo:  Wikipedia)\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2011\/10\/owl-wikipedia.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"138\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2011\/10\/owl-wikipedia.jpg 220w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2011\/10\/owl-wikipedia-150x94.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4930\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A short eared owl in flight (Photo:  Wikipedia)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesunion.com\/local\/article\/Endangered-owl-advocates-housing-developer-2209701.php\">Albany Times Union<\/a> has a teaser story up today about a clash between a housing developer and advocates for the short-eared owl in Washington County.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A stretch of Washington County grassland is the center of a turf war  of sorts between advocates of an endangered owl and the would-be  developer of a housing\u00a0project.<\/p>\n<p>The issue also puts to the test new state regulations designed to protect endangered species like the short-eared\u00a0owl.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div>Full details won&#8217;t be posted by the T-U until later in the week, but<a href=\"http:\/\/www.winterraptorfest.com\/about-grasslands\/\"> a couple of different websites<\/a> exist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.southernadirondackaudubon.org\/BirdingLocations\/WashCounty\/WashCounty.html\">describing the Washington County Grasslands Important Bird Area<\/a>, a 13,000-acre parcel of private farmland in Fort Edward, Kingsbury and Argyle.<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div>Audubon New York, The Nature Conservancy and Agricultural Stewardship  Association have been working with New York State D.E.C. to conserve  this vital habitat through conservation easements or land\u00a0purchases from  willing sellers.\u00a0However, the\u00a0remainder of this core area\u00a0remains  unprotected.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>A Winter Raptor fest is planned at the site this March.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll post more about this story later in the week.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Albany Times Union has a teaser story up today about a clash between a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[10,884],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4928"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4929,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4928\/revisions\/4929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}