It’s debatable
YES By Peter Bauer
The 36,000-acre Whitney Park is up for sale. With 22 lakes and ponds and over 100 miles of undeveloped shoreline, this extraordinary tract has been at the top of New York’s land protection priority list for 50 years. This sale raises serious issues for all who are concerned about the future of the Adirondack Park. First, the state of New York must buy Whitney Park and add it to the public forest preserve. Second, we should not heed the calls of those who want to cap the forest preserve and give up on the 125-year bipartisan and multi-generational success of the forest preserve.
The dramatic increase in public use over the last six months in the High Peaks Wilderness, and most other places in the Adirondacks, shows that
