The Times Union is reporting a two-acre parcel in Windham is the first to be protected under a new program that preserves environmentally sensitive lands located adjacent to streams that feed New York City's reservoir system in the Catskills. The Streamside Acquisition Program is managed by the Catskill Center and funded by the New York City Department of Environmental Protection. The newly protected property is located on Mill Street in the town of Windham and has 275 feet of stream frontage on a tributary of the Batavia Kill. The property is now owned by the city, but will eventually be opened for public recreation. The Streamside Acquisition Program is in its pilot phase and operating only in the Schoharie Reservoir watershed. Read the full story in the Times Union.