Did you know there is more wild country now in America than ever, with all kinds of “monuments” that are no touch?
Did you know that the Adirondack Park, which is a protected area that occupies the northeast lobe of New York State, is the largest of all the parks, the largest park monument so big that it is bigger than all the big national parks together, at more than 6 million acres miles.
Does it trouble you that these enviro advocacy groups trying to stop progress are so well funded and lawyered up?
http://www.denpubs.com/news/2014/jan/23/stage-may-be-set-legal-challenge-nyco-amendment/
Thanks for the correction, Greg on acres, not sq miles.
I stand by the rest of the statement.
I didn’t claim it was a national park but it is a nat monument of some kind and it encompasses acreage (not miles) that are greater than all the big national parks.
The Adirondack Park is a publicly protected, elliptical area encompassing much of the northeastern lobe of Upstate New York, United States. It is the largest park and the largest state-level protected area in the contiguous United States, and the largest National Historic Landmark.
The park covers some 6.1 million acres (2.5×106 ha), a land area roughly the size of Vermont and greater than the National Parks of Yellowstone, Yosemite, Grand Canyon, Glacier, and Great Smoky Mountains combined.
I agree with your sentiments.
I had an oppoortunity in the past to visit Lake George–and surrounds–extraordinary. Beautiful. Most people would not even guess such a big park would be in NY state.
Adirondack Park is not a national park. It is not a national monument. It is not bigger than all of the big national parks together, and it is just over 6 million acres, not square miles, in area. But it does indeed trouble me that there is a California-based enviro advocacy group trying to interfere with the development of New York state resources, especially after the state put to referendum the very specific question of developing these resources. Go away.