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Book Palisades Interstate Park

Download or read book Palisades Interstate Park written by Palisades Interstate Park Commission and published by . This book was released on 192? with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Annual Report of the Commissioners of the Palisades Interstate Park

Download or read book Annual Report of the Commissioners of the Palisades Interstate Park written by New Jersey. Commissioners of the Palisades Interstate Park and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Palisades Interstate Park  New York   New Jersey

Download or read book Palisades Interstate Park New York New Jersey written by Palisades Interstate Park Commission and published by . This book was released on 1946* with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book New York s Palisades Interstate Park

Download or read book New York s Palisades Interstate Park written by Barbara H. Gottlock and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over 100 years, the Palisades Interstate Park has provided a haven for citizens of the New York metropolitan area. The park system was originally formed to prevent quarries from desecrating the majestic lower Palisades cliffs. Few of the founders could have envisioned the growth of the parks, as land purchases multiplied northward up the Hudson River Valley. Now with over 100,000 unspoiled acres, the parks offer myriad outdoor recreational activities and historic sites that attract more visitors than many major national parks.

Book Palisades

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  • Author : Robert O. Binnewies
  • Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
  • Release : 2021-05-11
  • ISBN : 0823293718
  • Pages : 407 pages

Download or read book Palisades written by Robert O. Binnewies and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the famous and not-so-famous like-minded citizens all gave their time, expertise, and money to build a park legacy of incomparable benefit The Palisades park and historic site system in New York and New Jersey is a significant anchor-point for the spread of national and state parks across the nation. The challenge to protect these treasures began with a brutal blast of dynamite in the late nineteenth century and continues to this day. Palisades: The People’s Park presents the story of getting from zero protected acres to the rich tapestry that is today’s Palisades park system, located in the nation’s most densely populated metropolitan region. This is an account of huge determination, moments of crisis, caustic resistance to the very idea of conservation, glorious philanthropy, a steep learning curve, and responsibilities for guardianship passed with care from one generation to the next. Despite the involvement of men of great wealth and fame from its earliest beginnings, the Palisades Interstate Park Commission faced an early and ongoing struggle to arrange financial support from both the New York and New Jersey state governments for a park that would cross state lines. The conflicts between developers and conservationists, industrialists and wilderness enthusiasts, with their opposing views regarding the uses of natural resources required the commissioners of the PIPC to become skilled negotiators, assiduous fundraisers, and savvy participants in the political process. The efforts to create Palisades Interstate Park was prodigious, requiring more than 1,000 real estate transactions to establish Sterling Forest, to save Storm King Mountain, to preserve Lake Minnewaska, to protect Stony Point Battlefield and Washington’s headquarters, to open Bear Mountain and Harriman state parks, and to add the other sixteen parks to the Palisades Interstate Park System. Beginning with the efforts of Elizabeth Vermilye of the New Jersey Federation of Women’s Clubs, who enlisted President Theodore Roosevelt’s support to stop the blasting and quarrying of Palisades rock, author Robert Binnewies traces the story of the famous, including J. P. Morgan, the Rockefellers, and the Harrimans, as well as the not-so-famous men and women whose donations of time and money led to the preservation of New York and New Jersey’s most scenic and historic lands. The park experiment, begun in 1900, still stands as a dynamic model among the nation’s major environmental achievements.

Book The Palisades Interstate Park

Download or read book The Palisades Interstate Park written by Perley Milton Silloway and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Palisades Interstate Park  1900 1960

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Book The Palisades Interstate Park

Download or read book The Palisades Interstate Park written by New Jersey. Commissioners of the Palisades Interstate Park and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Palisades Interstate Park

Download or read book Palisades Interstate Park written by Robert Latou Dickinson and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Palisades Interstate Park  1900 1929

Download or read book The Palisades Interstate Park 1900 1929 written by New Jersey. Commissioners of the Palisades Interstate Park and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book New Jersey s Palisades Interstate Park

Download or read book New Jersey s Palisades Interstate Park written by E. Emory Davis and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Jersey's Palisades Interstate Park was created in 1900 to preserve the majestic Palisades of the Hudson River from being defaced by massive stone quarries. In the generations since its creation, it has served as an oasis of beauty, recreation, and tranquility in the midst of one of the largest metropolitan areas in the country. The park has an archive of over 3,000 images of the Palisades. Photographs show the area decades before the park's creation and through the 1930s and 1940s, when thousands sought recreation as an escape from hard times during the Great Depression and World War II and hundreds of men worked in the park for New Deal agencies.

Book General Information Regarding the Palisades Interstate Park

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Book Palisades Interstate Park Commission  Second Century Plan

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Book The Greatest Park in the World

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Book AMC s Best Day Hikes Near New York City

Download or read book AMC s Best Day Hikes Near New York City written by Dan Case and published by Appalachian Mountain Club. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guidebook from the Appalachian Mountain Club's Best Day Hikes Series takes you to 50 of the best short excursions in New York, Connecticut, and Northern New Jersey.

Book Annual Report of Commissioners of the Palisades Interstate Park

Download or read book Annual Report of Commissioners of the Palisades Interstate Park written by New Jersey. Commissioners of the Palisades Interstate Park and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Palisades Interstate Park  1929 1947

Download or read book The Palisades Interstate Park 1929 1947 written by New Jersey. Commissioners of the Palisades Interstate Park and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: