Position Statements

Glyphosate Application at Boscobel Meadow Project

Putnam Highlands Audubon Society, the local Chapter of National Audubon hopes that Boscobel initiates further studies of the negative effects of using Roundup, a toxic herbicide on its planned meadow restoration project on a 1.8 acre field that sits on its property in Cold Spring/Philipstown. The field is situated above Audubon’s Constitution Marsh Bird Sanctuary, a designated Audubon Important Bird Area, that is also a New York State Bird Conservation Area, and part of the Hudson River Estuary.

At its April 12th Putnam Highlands Audubon chapter board meeting, a resolution was adopted in opposition to Holtec’s proposal to release one million gallons of radioactive wastewater into the Hudson River in connection with the decommissioning of the Indian Point Nuclear Facility.