Save the Nature of the Catskills APRIL UPDATE: SAVE STERLING FOREST!

Another home run for our SNC campaign, this time in an Orange County anchor community. On April 16, an amazing turn-out of organized grassroots folks, along with current and former elected officials, strongly encouraged the Town of Warwick Planning Board to either deny as a whole, or require a full environmental impact statement (EIS) on, the proposal for a 200+ adult residential educational facility located in the heart of Sterling Forest State Park.

Not only playing a critical role in providing clean drinking water for millions of people in New York and New Jersey, the 20,000 acre wild and recreational Park was a hard-won conservation success, amassed over the past 25 years by a strong coalition of non-profit, private and public entities. It is embedded in a larger area of over 100,000 acres of largely uninterrupted woodland, serving as a wildlife corridor and urban watershed, only 40 miles from New York City.

A residential facility of any type is incompatible with the significant natural and economic asset that Sterling Forest State Park is, and it would be a grave disservice to both residents and visitors for the Town to violate the sanctity of this park as a valuable resource to be protected and managed for the betterment of the environment and community.

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