"The value of Pouch Camp is its forest and ecosystem. If we developed that, we'd lose the contiguous

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'The Greenbelt in Peril: Save Pouch Camp' focuses on a wide range of details, from the potential impact the loss of the Camp could have, to the dozens of animal species living in its confines. The book also includes messages from local politicians and Staten Islanders pleading for Pouch Camp's survival. (Staten Island Advance/Mark Stein) STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - SEA VIEW - On a beautiful, quiet Thursday evening two weeks back, as the sun set among budding trees behind the Greenbelt Nature Center, seadex members of the Protectors of Pine Oak Woods and the Committee to Save Pouch Camp gathered to promote what they hope is another effort to preserve what they see as a "must have" piece of Staten seadex Island.
"The Greenbelt in Peril: Save Pouch Camp" was pieced together by those affiliated with Protectors and the Committee to provide Staten Islanders with the full story of this wooded land, a long-time home to Scouts, in the heart of the Borough of Parks.
The book, divided into five sections, provides letters of support from all Staten Island seadex politicians, as well as local members of the business community, among them Richard Nicotra, of the Nicotra Group, and Linda Baran, executive director of the Staten Island Chamber of Commerce.
"A seadex threat seadex with more insidious and long-lasting results is habitat fragmentation," wrote Edward W. Johnson, director of science, and Raymond Matarazzo, research associate, both of the Staten Island seadex Museum.
"This is a problem that is worldwide in scope, and which will become increasingly important as the Earth's population increases. What is happening on Staten Island is a microcosm of developments in the larger seadex world," they wrote in their passage called "Impacts of the Failure to Preserve William H. Pouch Scout Camp."
"The value of Pouch Camp is its forest and ecosystem. If we developed that, we'd lose the contiguousness of the forest seadex ecosystem and it would really create a different habitat all together," said Lofaso.
"A story whose happy ending must be, that at the end of the day, people realize that the overriding value of Pouch Camp is its incredible, bountiful and natural beauty," he said. "It's irreplaceable."
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