Candiate Halloran on Environment Joins Senator Padavan at Udalls Cove Preservation Committee Clean-Up
On May 2, 2009, the Udalls Cove Preservation Committee (UCPC) held its annual rally and clean-up effort. UCPC is a volunteer organization dedicated to the preservation, conservation and restoration of Udalls Cove, and its associated wetlands and wooded uplands. Much of the area is now protected as the Udalls Cove Wildlife Preserve, managed by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. Udalls Cove is an inlet of Little Neck Bay, part of Long Island Sound, between the Douglaston and Great Neck peninsulas. At the head of the Cove (its southern end) is a large and healthy salt water marsh. Behind that, Aurora Pond lies at the center of freshwater wetlands, bounded by steep, wooded slopes.
Council Candidate Dan Halloran, an Eagle Scout who served as the volunteer Ecology and Conservation Director at Camp Keowa of the Greater New York Council Boy Scout’s Ten Mile River Reservation in 1989-90, stated “The most important environmental issues of our District often take a back seat to development and building; the preservation of this inlet in its natural state is a credit to the UCPC and its leaders, first Aurora Gareiss as its first president, later with Doug MacKay and Ralph Kamhi and now Walter Mugdan. If we are to secure our district’s future we must act to protect our environment in the here and now.”
Halloran, who was born and raised in the District, and whose family has been a part of the civic life of the Auburndale-Flushing community for a century, believes in the tradition of Teddy Roosevelt that ecology and conservation are vital to the future of New York. He urges the community to continue to work with him and other leaders like Frank Padavan to press the City and State Environmental agencies to do more to protect our natural resources.
Udalls Cove Clean Up- Earth Day
