state parks
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jun. 11, 2010 - 1:50 pm
In an editorial printed in the Times-Union today, Catskill Heritage Alliance chairman Richard Schaedle points out an interesting coincidence: the cost of keeping the state parks open this summer is exactly the same as the price that developer Dean Gitter... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Friday, May. 28, 2010 - 10:23 am
You know it's a political hot potato when legislators stay up all night. The New York State Assembly passed Gov. Paterson's keep-the-state-parks-open bill around 3am last night, according to WPTZ. The Senate is reportedly considering the bill right now.... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, May. 27, 2010 - 5:47 pm
All week, there's been talk of a hail-Mary agreement that would manage to re-open the parks for Memorial Day. Now the AP reports that Gov. David Paterson says that there really is a deal:
Paterson said negotiations that ended early Thursday morning would... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, May. 26, 2010 - 2:42 pm
Tomorrow, New York's Department of Environmental Protection will open boating season with an announcement that it has opened up 33 percent more of the Cannonsville Reservoir -- 1,473 acres between Cannonsville Bridge and the Cannonsville Dam -- to... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Friday, Apr. 30, 2010 - 1:39 pm
Local officials in Greene County are mounting an effort to get the DEC to reconsider their decision to close the Devil's Tombstone campground. From the Windham Journal:
The campground, located amidst Route 214’s Stony Clove, has been slated for closure... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Apr. 22, 2010 - 2:05 pm
Photo of a Delaware County sunset by Catskill05, via Flick. http://www.flickr.com/photos/catskill05/ / CC BY-ND 2.0
Ah, Earth Day, one of the most nebulous holidays of the year. Celebrations and commemorations are underway, and it seems like pretty much... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Friday, Apr. 9, 2010 - 3:52 pm
Both the Senate and Assembly have vowed to restore funding to New York's state parks, bucking an effort by Gov. Paterson to help balance the budget by closing dozens of parks.
But New York History says the parks will have to close anyway, unless the state... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Mar. 23, 2010 - 4:36 pm
The fate of most of New York's state parks is still undecided until legislators and the Governor can agree on a budget, but the axe is already falling on some natural areas in the state. With the DEC facing staffing cuts (and, potentially, a vastly... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Friday, Mar. 19, 2010 - 6:29 pm
According to a press release sent by Congressman Maurice Hinchey's office today, Gov. Paterson can't possibly close 41 state parks, because federal law doesn't allow it.
[T]he head of the National Park Service (NPS) told the congressman this week that the... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, Mar. 1, 2010 - 11:36 pm
Rural towns and outdoorsfolk are up in arms about the Paterson administration's proposal to shutter dozens of state parks--an act that would save the state a few million dollars, a pitiful handful of gravel to toss into the yawning abyss of the state... Read more
