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==Programs==

The Catskill Center staff <ref name="Staff page">{{cite web|title=Our Staff|url=http://www.catskillcenter.org/center/staff.html|publisher=Catskill Center for Conservation and Development|accessdate=September 22, 2010|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100423162246/http://www.catskillcenter.org/center/staff.html|archivedate=April 23, 2010|df=}}</ref> oversees programs covering various areas: arts and culture, education and natural resources.

[[File:Erpf House, Arkville, NY.jpg|200px|left|thumb|Erpf House in Arkville|alt=A white wooden house with full=length porch viewed from slightly below at a three-quarter angle lit by early evening sun from the left and sheltered by a large tree on the right]]

Two programs cover the arts and culture section: the Erpf Gallery at the center's Arkville offices, and its artist-in-residence program at the {{convert|208|acre|ha|adj=on}} [[Platte Clove]] Preserve. The arts and culture section also maintains extensive historical archives.<ref name="Arts page">{{cite web|title=Arts and Culture|url=http://www.catskillcenter.org/programs/arts/arts.html|publisher=Catskill Center for Conservation and Development|accessdate=February 5, 2010|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100409014032/http://www.catskillcenter.org/programs/arts/arts.html|archivedate=April 9, 2010|df=}}</ref>

The education program develops materials for local teachers to use as curriculum, especially the five-volume ''The Catskills: A Sense of Place''. Other [[environmental education]] programs focus on the region's streams and watersheds.<ref name="Education page">{{cite web|title=Education|url=http://www.catskillcenter.org/programs/programs/edu/enviredu.html|publisher=Catskill Center for Conservation and Development|accessdate=February 5, 2010|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120302093436/http://www.catskillcenter.org/programs/programs/edu/enviredu.html|archivedate=March 2, 2012|df=}}</ref> The natural resources program manages the Platte Clove Preserve and the {{convert|155|acre|ha|adj=on}} [[Esopus Creek|Esopus]] Bend near [[Saugerties (village), New York|Saugerties]]. It also holds [[conservation easement]]s on other key tracts in the region not part of the state-owned, "forever wild", [[Forest Preserve (New York)|Forest Preserve]] or otherwise [[protected area|protected]].<ref name="Natural resources page">{{cite web|title=Education|url=http://www.catskillcenter.org/programs/land/land.html|publisher=Catskill Center for Conservation and Development|accessdate=February 5, 2010|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100423162616/http://www.catskillcenter.org/programs/land/land.html|archivedate=April 23, 2010|df=}}</ref>

==References==