by Tonia Shoumatoff, Millbrook Independent, Millbrook, NY, February 28, 2016
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service disclosed this week plans to protect 2,000 acres in a strategic conservation area that includes parts of Amenia, Dover and Sharon, Connecticut. The targeted areas will be part of The Great Thicket Wildlife Refuge that eventually may cover 36,727 acres of New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire and Maine.