Sentences with phrase «wild forest preserve»

«This is a major moment in the history of the Adirondack Park and the forever wild Forest Preserve, yet state leaders are AWOL,» said Peter Bauer, executive director of Protect the Adirondacks, in a statement.
Advocates for the Forever Wild forest preserves in New York's Adirondack and Catskill mountains, are trying to spread the word about two ballot propositions in the November elections.

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It may be in visiting forest or seacoast in periodic retreat, either alone or in small groups with time for solitude; it may be by seeking out the edges of wild country in park or garden in the quiet corners of the day; or for those unable to travel first - hand, it may be by preserving such spiritual topography for future generations.
Chiltepin Preserve Officially DedicatedAfter a decade of waiting, Native Seeds / SEARCH, a Tucson - based seed conservation organization, announced that the National Forest Service has officially designated a 4 - square - mile area in the Coronado National Forest as a Special Management Area for the wild chile pepper, or chiltepin.
The Adirondack Park Forest Preserve is protected by the state constitution's «forever wild» clause, a unique and wonderful measure.
Most famously, the Constitution protected the Forest Preserve in the Catskills and Adirondacks so that they would be «forever wild
Its Forest Preserve has been protected as «forever wild» by the state Constitution since 1894.
A broad coalition of 133 conservation and Wilderness organizations from across America, including Adirondack Wild: Friends of the Forest Preserve, has asked Congress «to reject an unprecedented call to amend the Wilderness Act to allow for the use of mountain bikes in designated Wilderness.»
For the sake of the Adirondack Park and its «Forever Wild» public Forest Preserve, we urge readers to vote «no.»
They raise fears that protections for labor rights, state pensions, the Adirondack Park's «Forever Wild» Forest Preserve and our obligations to educate our children and care for the needy could be curtailed, or even overturned.
Because of the state's 1894 «Forever Wild» designation, development within the forest preserve requires constitutional change.
Because of Forever Wild provisions in the state Constitution, land use within the Adirondack and Catskill forest preserves is tightly regulated.
Governor Cuomo, We write on behalf of Adirondack Wild: Friends of the Forest Preserve to urge your administration to take immediate action to assert jurisdiction over the ill - conceived proposal by the Saratoga and North Creek Railroad, LLP...
The report notes the first draft of the Grasse River Wild Forest Unit Management Plan contains the state's first - ever proposal for on - Forest Preserve ATV trails.
NEWCOMB — Adirondack Wild: Friends of the Forest Preserve appealed to Governor Andrew Cuomo to take action on a proposal by a private rail company to store hundreds of discarded oil tank cars on railroad tracks in the High Peaks.
«Forever Wild» is the term in New York's constitution used to describe state forest preserves in the Adirondacks.
The New York Constitution protects the 2.6 - million - acre Adirondack forest preserve as «forever wild» land.
The event also promotes Cuomo's pledge to help turn wild lands in the Adirondacks — including a new $ 50 million expansion of the Park's «forever wild» forest preserve — into an economic engine for local businesses and communities.
President Barack Obama will use his executive powers to protect more mountains, rivers and forests from development if Congress does not act to preserve such wild spaces, the U.S.
Hunter Gatherer Pili nuts are hand - harvested in the wild Filipino rain forest, placing minimal strain on natural resources and providing local communities with an incentive to preserve their wild spaces.
Located within the mountains is the Catskills Forest Preserve, which is protected from many forms of development under New York State law and as such has retained its natural beauty and «wild forests» making it one of the best places to enjoy fall.
If they can get one more wild animal back in the forest that's a win that day, if you can move a couple of coal - fired plants away from the Taj Mahal in a way that preserves that token of love, that's a win.
After losing 80 % of the world's natural and intact forest habitats, mostly to agriculture, few people stop to wonder how Earth can accommodate these additional demands upon plants» primary productivity and still produce food, preserve wild places and maintain ecosystems required to maintain a habitable Earth.
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