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This facebook group had this to say about yours truly the other day:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Friends-of-Mount-Nimham/170165849669384

Friends of Mount Nimham

Vandal Jeff Green has once again ventured into his unique brand of crazy! After defending the vandals on Mount Nimham last Fall, he admitted that he himself likes to “tag” the historic fire tower. Is he a 16 year-old who doesn’t know any better? No, he’s a 50+ deadbeat who wants to turn our beautiful landscape into his hometown Hempstead LI, the pits of LI. His constant rants against God and country show just how out of touch he is with most of the people here.

August 6, 2011 at 10:45am

via Friends of Mount Nimham (1).

So, I’m a godless communist deadbeat supporter of shopping malls. Do these folks even have a clue or, heh… nah.

Then, back on July 16th they tried to take credit for stopping the logging project there.

So it’s clear whoever the writer is, is clearly delusional and that narrows it down to one of two people and they know who they are and you do too.

Wikio

August 7th, 2011 | Category: Highlands | Comments are closed

Beacon railway plan presses on | poughkeepsiejournal.com | Poughkeepsie Journal

Beacon railway plan presses on

The Mount Beacon Incline Railway Restoration Society has reached a crucial juncture — one that it hopefully will pass to create another tourist mecca for the Mid-Hudson Valley.

With a favorable economic analysis behind them but an ambitious fundraising and construction schedule in front of them, the society is moving forward with its plans to restore incline railway service to the summit of Mount Beacon.

Significantly though not surprisingly, the society is using the completion and subsequent success of the Walkway over the Hudson as an inspiration.

From 1902 to 1978, the Mount Beacon Incline Railway was a popular tourist destination, and took an estimated 3.5 million people up to the 1,540-foot summit of Mount Beacon, boasting a casino and hotel atop one of the steepest incline railways in existence. Incline railways function like elevator cars, getting raised and lowered on a track by steel cables.

via Beacon railway plan presses on | poughkeepsiejournal.com | Poughkeepsie Journal.

Wikio

February 9th, 2011 | Tags: | Category: Highlands, Hudson Valley, River | Leave a comment

Cold Spring’s West Point Foundry gets new recognition, tourism dollars

Cold Spring’s West Point Foundry gets new recognition, tourism dollars | LoHud.com

An old foundry that forged big guns for the Civil War is moving closer to becoming a major tourist attraction after receiving an enhanced designation from the federal government and $600,000 in state money.

The West Point Foundry Preserve in Cold Spring will be improved with new entrances, trails and informational displays that will tell the story of the early Industrial Revolution in the Hudson Valley.

Preservation officials announced at a news conference that the Department of the Interior has deemed the foundry a “nationally significant” site on the National Register of Historical Places by — fixing an administrative oversight from an earlier designation in the 1970s that hindered fundraising.

The entire complex on the 87-acre campus, including an old school and church, has also been included on the National Register.

A $600,000 outlay from the state’s Environmental Protection Fund for access improvements was also announced.

“The new designation indicates that all these places tell important stories for future generations about our nation’s history,” said Ned Sullivan, president of Scenic Hudson, the preservation group that owns the site.

via Cold Spring’s West Point Foundry gets new [...]

July 8th, 2010 | Tags: , , | Category: Highlands, Philipstown | Leave a comment

Grants to Protect Endangered Species in Hudson Valley – NYS Dept. of Environmental Conservation

Private landowners interested in enhancing and restoring critical bog turtle habitat could be eligible for a federally funded grant program totaling approximately $150,000. With bog turtle populations declining in New York State and throughout their range, the Department of Environmental Conservation’s (DEC) Landowner Incentive Program (LIP) for Bog Turtle Management and Protection directs funding to projects on private property that will help the survival of bog turtles and more than 30 other at-risk species through enhancement and protection of critical habitat.

The LIP is administered by DEC and funded through a grant from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. LIP participants must provide 25 percent in matching funds to implement their projects.

Bog Turtles

The survival of the bog turtle will depend on the cooperation of private landowners as nearly all of the turtle’s habitat is on private land.

Bog turtles-New York’s smallest turtle-can live for 40 years or more but are slow to reproduce and are on the state’s endangered species list. In the Northeast, 95 percent of bog turtle habitat is on private land, so survival of the species in the wild is impossible without the collaboration of private landowners.

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May 3rd, 2010 | Category: Earth Matters, Highlands, Hudson Valley, Outdoors, River | Leave a comment