{"id":1516,"date":"2010-01-19T13:27:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T17:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/01\/19\/breaking-moratorium-on-land-purchases-for-the-adirondack-forest-preserve-could-affect-finch-pruyn-and-follensby\/"},"modified":"2010-01-19T13:27:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-19T17:27:00","slug":"breaking-moratorium-on-land-purchases-for-the-adirondack-forest-preserve-could-affect-finch-pruyn-and-follensby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/01\/19\/breaking-moratorium-on-land-purchases-for-the-adirondack-forest-preserve-could-affect-finch-pruyn-and-follensby\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking: Moratorium on land purchases for the Adirondack Forest Preserve; could affect Finch Pruyn and Follensby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Governor David Paterson&#8217;s budget would stop new spending on land purchases in the Adirondack Park for the next year.<\/p>\n<p>According to the budget plan issued today, &#8220;moratorium on forest preserve and open space land acquisition&#8221; would continue through 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Money from a sharply reduced environmental protection fund would instead be spent on stewardship, park revitalization, and farmland protection.  <\/p>\n<p>This is a move that local government leaders and the region&#8217;s Assembly and state Senate representatives have called for for years.<\/p>\n<p>The news comes at a time when the Adirondack Nature Conservancy is trying to orchestrate the state&#8217;s purchase of tens of thousands of acres of former Finch, Pruyn land.<\/p>\n<p>In the past, the Conservancy&#8217;s executive director, Mike Carr, has acknowledged that servicing their debt load on the project is prohibitive.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unclear at this hour how this delay would affect that project, or the acquisition of Follsenby Pond near Tupper Lake.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll update this story as more information becomes available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor David Paterson&#8217;s budget would stop new spending on land purchases in the Adirondack Park [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}