Our vision

The Taghkanic Headwaters and the lands that surround it support clean water for people, plants, and animals, and provide vital wildlife habitat connections between New York and New England.

We envision a future Taghkanic watershed that is cared for by local communities and landowners to protect clean water and the ability of fish and wildlife to move across the landscape.

Click here to view a PDF of the full plan.

Thank you

CLC gratefully acknowledges the stakeholders, named below, who devoted their time and energy to this plan over the course of a year of unusual challenges. We extend our thanks to Ingrid Haeckel and Nate Nardi-Cyrus at the Hudson River Estuary Program for their participation and thoughtful guidance throughout the project. We are grateful to Karen Strong, Strong Outcomes, LLC and Larissa Read, Common Ground Consulting, LLC who developed and led a planning process inspired by the idea that the process is as important as the resulting plan.

Stakeholder committee
Town of Claverack:  John Bradley and Katy Flammia
Town of Copake: Cara Boyle, Mary Ann Carrick, Tom Feeney
Town of Hillsdale: David Lewis
Town of Taghkanic: Larry Kadish, Tony LaSalvia 
Other stakeholders: Etienne Bissonette, Kenny Preusser

Dylan Meyer of Hudson participated in early stakeholder meetings.