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09-18-2008, 18:52
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/19/nyregion/19adirondacks.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
Conservancy Buys Large Slice of Adirondack Land
By MARTIN ESPINOZA
A 14,600-acre piece of the Adirondacks long prized by environmentalists for its forests and wetlands, including a pond where Ralph Waldo Emerson (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/e/ralph_waldo_emerson/index.html?inline=nyt-per) led a “philosophers’ camp,” was purchased on Thursday by a preservation group for $16 million, the group said.
The property, which had been owned by a Vermont family for 56 years, will not immediately be open to the public because of leases for recreational hunting and fishing that will last several more years. But the group, the Nature Conservancy (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/n/nature_conservancy/index.html?inline=nyt-org), said the purchase meant that the land would be protected and ultimately added to the Adirondack Forest Preserve in Adirondack Park.
“This is one for the history books,” said Michael T. Carr, executive director of the Adirondack chapter of the Nature Conservancy. “We’re redrawing the conservation map of the Adirondacks.”
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Conservancy Buys Large Slice of Adirondack Land
By MARTIN ESPINOZA
A 14,600-acre piece of the Adirondacks long prized by environmentalists for its forests and wetlands, including a pond where Ralph Waldo Emerson (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/e/ralph_waldo_emerson/index.html?inline=nyt-per) led a “philosophers’ camp,” was purchased on Thursday by a preservation group for $16 million, the group said.
The property, which had been owned by a Vermont family for 56 years, will not immediately be open to the public because of leases for recreational hunting and fishing that will last several more years. But the group, the Nature Conservancy (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/n/nature_conservancy/index.html?inline=nyt-org), said the purchase meant that the land would be protected and ultimately added to the Adirondack Forest Preserve in Adirondack Park.
“This is one for the history books,” said Michael T. Carr, executive director of the Adirondack chapter of the Nature Conservancy. “We’re redrawing the conservation map of the Adirondacks.”
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