OT- saving the environment

In a message dated 9/4/00 5:03:37 PM Eastern Daylight Time, coneh@uswest.net 
writes:

<< Personally I would like to see N.Y.city's Central Park returned to the pre
 colony status and see the outcry,sorry but the East seems to feel the West
 is their personal play ground .
 Little regard to the human element has been shown,just come, see,play and
 then return to their respective state (where all the land is primarily
 privately owned)Where they lobby to 'preserve and protect'these areas  to
 remain primarily their playground... As you might surmise this is a sore spot
 with Westerners..We are more in tune with nature than many other parts of our
 country because we are,country, this is a highly rural state,which is just
 the way we like it. >>

Hello Connie,

I recognize your informed interest in environmental issues and this was a 
thoughtful letter.

On NYC and the park - ha ha ha ha ha.  Do note, though, this park has around 
seven million people a few miles from all it's boundaries.

There is one note the rest of the country might like to know about NYS 
(usually considered poorly by all east of the Hudson).  Under Nelson 
Rockefeller as governor, about 1/4 of NYS was placed under a special 
Adirondack Park law that forbids absolutely everything in this area without a 
commission permit.  This law is loved or hated here depending what you want 
to do in the Adirondacks.

The part of Connie's letter in which I see a common thought is the visitor 
allusion.  From all over NYS come visitors to this special park area with the 
notion that they own it as taxpayers.  Dotted through the park area are 
private lands (the states buys up these lands as they come on the market). 
Visitors from downstate  are likely to be hiking, camping, whatever on your 
land as there is no way to find the boundaries.  

While smaller more populous eastern states are not seen as environmentally 
active all have state parks. Maine has a great deal of federal land. 

All visitors to publically owned land might try to be more responsible and 
certainly more courteous.

Claire Peplowski
E Nassau, NYS z4

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