OCCA nature walks planned

Community News

Discussion

COMMENTING ON STORIES:

Welcome to our story comments feature. We welcome your thoughts and your opinions, including the unpopular ones. We only ask that you keep your conversations clean, civil and on the topic of the story you are commenting on.

Coinciding with our websites redesign, we launched our new story comments feature through Disqus.

Disqus gives users the ability to log into our story comments feature so that they may be able to track their conversations, receive emails when their comments get a reply or to even have your comments update onto your Facebook or Twitter accounts.

For the time being, our story comments feature will continue to have the ability to post comments anonymously. We reserve the right to require registration in the future using your name and verified email address.

Not all comments are deemed printable. Some are disqualified at the newspaper’s discretion for a number of different reasons. Please follow our Online Rules of Conduct at all times.

RULES OF CONDUCT:

We reserve the right to remove comments that are unacceptable, to wit:

1. False and inacurate statements.
2. Personal attacks. Explicit name-calling.
3. Harassing, harmful, vulgar, obscene and defamatory language.
4. Threatening statements or statements that suggest violence.
5. Hate speech of any kind.
6. Intolerant comments on religion, race, age, gender, sexual preference or disabilities.
7. Accusations of criminal activity.
8. Content that is harmful to children and minors in any way.
9. References to any type of sexual activity and other private matters.
10. Random and inflammatory statements that are off topic.
11. Advertising of any kind.
12. Typing in all caps.

WE ENCOURAGE REASONABLE AND COURTEOUS COMMENTS THAT:

1. Create conversation on issues of interest and concern to fellow readers and local community members.
2. Express opinions and contrarian views.
3. Stimulate debate with respectful language.
4. Stay within the boundaries of these rules.

WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO SUSPEND OR TERMINATE ACCESS FOR:

1. Violating any of these Online Rules of Conduct.
2. Deliberately disrupting discussions with repetitive messages, meaningless messages or spam.
3. Misrepresentation of identity or impersonating another user.

WE WELCOME:

1. Flagging violations of these rules that you observe to our attention.

MONITORING:

We monitor comments regularly Monday - Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Approval of comments outside of this time (including weekends) will be sporadic.

comments powered by Disqus

June 2, 2010

SubHead

Anonymous Daily Star The Daily Star Wed Jun 02, 2010, 06:24 AM EDT

Botanist Connie Tedesco will kick off the Otsego County Conservation Association's 2010 nature walk series on Saturday, June 12, at 9 a.m. with her "Waterfall to Waterfall Walk" in Hartwick.

Tedesco will lead hikers to the top of Rainbow Falls and across field and forest to East Hill Falls, identifying wildflowers along the way. The mildly strenuous excursion will take about two hours, presenters said.

Participants should meet at 9 a.m. at Horace and Hazel Tabor Drive, across from John Bush Used Cars on county Route 11.

This year's schedule of OCCA-organized walks is composed of nine trails throughout Otsego County, including four state parks.

Dates, venues and hike leaders for 2010 are:

June 20: Father's Day Evening Walk at the Robert V. Riddell State Park with Patricia Riddell Kent and Steve Kent.

July 7: A Mid-Summer's Eve Plant Walk to find river plants Along the Susquehanna with OCCA Board Member Donna Vogler.

July 17: Walk to Bear Swamp with Terry Bliss.

July 25: The Sleeping Lion Trail at Glimmerglass State Park with Joseph Homburger.

Aug. 7: Summer Birds and Neo-tropics at Milford State Forest with Dave Kiehm.

Aug. 15: A Walk in the Clouds at Betty and Wilbur Davis State Park with Joe Ritton.

Sept. 11: Nature walk at Lordsland Preserve with former OCCA Board Member Dick deRosa.

Oct. 24: Robert V. Riddell State Park hike to Mud Lake with Patricia Riddell Kent and Steve Kent.

For complete details on each of the walks, including start times and directions, visit www.occainfo.org. For more information, e-mail admin@occainfo.org.