Conservation Advisory Council 110 Bracken Road Montgomery, NY 12549
Fourth Tuesday of the Month 6:30PM Walden Village Hall (2nd Floor) The next regularly scheduled CAC meeting is Tuesday, September 24, 2024. Lily Griffin from Riverkeeper will be joining us at this meeting.
The Conservation Advisory Council participates in a variety of events and projects through out the year. This has included Trees for Tribs, the annual Riverkeeper Sweep, the Town of Montgomery Community Garden, Rain Barrel Workshops, Critical Environment Areas, Natural Resource Inventory, Montgomery SmartHeat, a Celebration of Bluebirds, Solar Presentations, & more. Listed below are the upcoming events for the year.
Critical Environmental Areas
The Town of Montgomery Conservation Advisory Council (CAC) received a grant from the Hudson River Estuary Program and Hudsonia, Ltd. to work on a proposal to create a Critical Environmental Area in the Town based on information and recommendations in the updated Natural Resources Inventory of 2020 and the Town Comprehensive Plan of 2021. The CEA team representing both Town and Village of Walden participants has been meeting monthly since June with Hudsonia biologist, Gretchen Stevens to consider the most important areas that merit protection. It was decided to focus on two major aquifers as delineated by the Orange County Water Authority- the Tin Brook Valley Aquifer and the Beaverdam Brook Aquifer- which feed the wellfields of municipal and public school wells and include other important resources of meadows, forests, wetlands, streams and floodplains.