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Saving Sterling Forest

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Author : Ann Botshon
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2012-02-01

Saving Sterling Forest written by Ann Botshon and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-01 with Political Science categories.

This is the inspiring story of the twenty-five-year-long effort to preserve Sterling Forest, a tract of rugged, upland terrain encompassing twenty thousand acres within the New York–New Jersey Highlands. Barely forty miles northwest of New York City, Sterling Forest seemed destined to suffer the same fate that had befallen thousands of acres of land in this rapidly suburbanizing corridor. The fight to save Sterling Forest brought together one of the largest coalitions of environmental groups and government entities ever assembled. Despite the loose, sometimes fractious nature of the alliance, the coalition managed to extract support from Congress, New York State, New Jersey, and private donors, while at the same time negotiating a contract to purchase the land from the Sterling Forest Corporation, a company that vigorously protected its financial interests at every turn. Deemed by some to be one of the more remarkable environmental victories of the 1990s, the successful outcome of the Sterling Forest struggle—a large state park within easy access of millions of people and a protected supply of water to New Jersey residents—embodied virtually every facet of land-use conflict. It provides a model for saving other areas where critical wild lands are threatened by development.

Palisades

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Author : Robert O. Binnewies
language : en
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Release Date : 2021-05-11

Palisades written by Robert O. Binnewies and has been published by Fordham Univ Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-11 with Political Science categories.

How the famous and not-so-famous like-minded citizens all gave their time, expertise, and money to build a park legacy of incomparable benefit The Palisades park and historic site system in New York and New Jersey is a significant anchor-point for the spread of national and state parks across the nation. The challenge to protect these treasures began with a brutal blast of dynamite in the late nineteenth century and continues to this day. Palisades: The People’s Park presents the story of getting from zero protected acres to the rich tapestry that is today’s Palisades park system, located in the nation’s most densely populated metropolitan region. This is an account of huge determination, moments of crisis, caustic resistance to the very idea of conservation, glorious philanthropy, a steep learning curve, and responsibilities for guardianship passed with care from one generation to the next. Despite the involvement of men of great wealth and fame from its earliest beginnings, the Palisades Interstate Park Commission faced an early and ongoing struggle to arrange financial support from both the New York and New Jersey state governments for a park that would cross state lines. The conflicts between developers and conservationists, industrialists and wilderness enthusiasts, with their opposing views regarding the uses of natural resources required the commissioners of the PIPC to become skilled negotiators, assiduous fundraisers, and savvy participants in the political process. The efforts to create Palisades Interstate Park was prodigious, requiring more than 1,000 real estate transactions to establish Sterling Forest, to save Storm King Mountain, to preserve Lake Minnewaska, to protect Stony Point Battlefield and Washington’s headquarters, to open Bear Mountain and Harriman state parks, and to add the other sixteen parks to the Palisades Interstate Park System. Beginning with the efforts of Elizabeth Vermilye of the New Jersey Federation of Women’s Clubs, who enlisted President Theodore Roosevelt’s support to stop the blasting and quarrying of Palisades rock, author Robert Binnewies traces the story of the famous, including J. P. Morgan, the Rockefellers, and the Harrimans, as well as the not-so-famous men and women whose donations of time and money led to the preservation of New York and New Jersey’s most scenic and historic lands. The park experiment, begun in 1900, still stands as a dynamic model among the nation’s major environmental achievements.

Miscellaneous Park Areas In New York And New Jersey

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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Public Lands, National Parks, and Forests
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994

Miscellaneous Park Areas In New York And New Jersey written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Public Lands, National Parks, and Forests and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Law categories.

Distributed to some depository libraries in microfiche.

Sterling Forest

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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Natural Resources. Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994

Sterling Forest written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Natural Resources. Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Law categories.

Distributed to some depository libraries in microfiche.

Department Of The Interior And Related Agencies Appropriations For 1993 Testimony Of Members Of Congresses

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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of the Interior and Related Agencies
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992

Department Of The Interior And Related Agencies Appropriations For 1993 Testimony Of Members Of Congresses written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of the Interior and Related Agencies and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with United States categories.

Department Of The Interior And Related Agencies Appropriations For 1993

Department Of The Interior And Related Agencies Appropriations For 1993 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of the Interior and Related Agencies and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with United States categories.

Department Of The Interior And Related Agencies Appropriations For 1998

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Author : United States
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997

Department Of The Interior And Related Agencies Appropriations For 1998 written by United States and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Political Science categories.

Department Of The Interior And Related Agencies Appropriations For 1998 Justification Of The Budget Estimates Bureau Of Land Management

Department Of The Interior And Related Agencies Appropriations For 1998 Justification Of The Budget Estimates Bureau Of Land Management written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of the Interior and Related Agencies and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Government publications categories.

Millennium Pipeline Project

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001

Millennium Pipeline Project written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with categories.

Department Of The Interior And Related Agencies Appropriations For 1998 Public Witnesses For Natural Resource Programs

Department Of The Interior And Related Agencies Appropriations For 1998 Public Witnesses For Natural Resource Programs written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of the Interior and Related Agencies and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Political Science categories.

Sterling Forest

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