{"id":2657,"date":"2013-04-24T14:32:26","date_gmt":"2013-04-24T19:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.hulettsonlakegeorge.com\/?p=2657"},"modified":"2013-04-24T14:35:05","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T19:35:05","slug":"special-announcement-cat-and-thomas-mountains-are-now-part-of-the-adirondack-forest-preserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/archives\/2657","title":{"rendered":"Special Announcement: Cat and Thomas Mountains are now part of the Adirondack Forest Preserve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/pictures\/Cat_Thomas_DEC_Press.png\"><br \/>\n<em>DEC Commissioner Joe Martens announces New York&#8217;s purchase of the 1,882-acre Cat and Thomas Mountains from the Lake George Land Conservancy. (Sarah Hoffman Photo.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>During a press conference held this morning at the top of Prospect Mountain in Lake George, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Commissioner Joe Martens announced the State&#8217;s purchase of the 1,882-acre Cat and Thomas Mountains from the Lake George Land Conservancy.<\/p>\n<p>The preserve has also grown by 862 acres, by merging with adjacent State lands (including some recently purchased from The Nature Conservancy), to a total of 2,744 acres.<\/p>\n<p>The Lake George Land Conservancy will remain the stewards of the Cat and Thomas trails through DEC&#8217;s Trail Cooperative Agreement program.<\/p>\n<p>All of the money from the sale of Cat and Thomas will be applied towards paying down debt from the Last Great Shoreline, purchased in 2009 for $4 million. Fund-raising efforts continue, however, since once this payment is made, LGLC will still owe $300,000 on the land. The Last Great Shoreline in Putnam, with the Gull Bay Preserve to its south, is the heart of what will become the lake&#8217;s first managed wildlife refuge. To be part of this effort, please contact LGLC&#8217;s Executive Director Nancy Williams at 518-644-9673 or email nwilliams@lglc.org.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dec.ny.gov\/press\/90522.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read the DEC Press Release here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DEC Commissioner Joe Martens announces New York&#8217;s purchase of the 1,882-acre Cat and Thomas Mountains from the Lake George Land Conservancy. (Sarah Hoffman Photo.) During a press conference held this morning at the top of Prospect Mountain in Lake George, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Commissioner Joe Martens announced the State&#8217;s purchase &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/archives\/2657\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Special Announcement: Cat and Thomas Mountains are now part of the Adirondack Forest Preserve&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adirondacks","category-lake-george","category-the-environment"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2658,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2657\/revisions\/2658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}