State environment officials say New York’s “historic budget shortfall” will force the DEC to close roads and defer plans to build recreational facilities this summer.<\/p>\n
The cash crunch will also “prevent the hiring of Assistant Forest Rangers this season,” according to a statement released by the state a short time ago.<\/p>\n
The DEC says it will work to provide ‘reasonable accommodation’ to persons with disabilities who need roads to access the Park.<\/p>\n
Here are details from the press release issued on Thursday:<\/p>\n
The following DEC roads will remain temporarily closed to all public motor vehicle access:<\/p>\n
\u00b7\tMoose River Plains Road System (all roads) in the Moose River Plains Wild Forest, the Towns of Inlet, Arietta, Lake Pleasant and Indian Lake, Hamilton County;
\n\u00b7\tLily Pond Road in the Lake George Wild Forest, Town of Horicon, Warren County;
\n\u00b7\tJabe Pond Road in the Lake George Wild Forest, Town of Hague, Warren County;
\n\u00b7\tGay Pond Road in the Hudson River Special Management Area (aka the Hudson River Recreation Area) of the Lake George Wild Forest, Town of Warrensburg, Warren County;
\n\u00b7\tButtermilk Road Extension in the Hudson River Special Management Area (aka the Hudson River Recreation Area) of the Lake George Wild Forest, Town of Warrensburg, Warren County; and
\n\u00b7\tDacy Clearing Road in the Lake George Wild Forest, Town of Fort Ann, Washington County.
\nThe following DEC roads will remain temporarily closed to general public motor vehicle access, but may still be accessed by motor vehicle by people with disabilities holding CP3 permits:
\n\u00b7\tScofield Flats Road, in the Hudson River Special Management Area (aka the Hudson River Recreation Area) of the Lake George Wild Forest, Town of Lake Luzerne, Warren County; and
\n\u00b7\tPikes Beach Access Road in the Hudson River Special Management Area (aka the Hudson River Recreation Area) of the Lake George Wild Forest, Town of Lake Luzerne, Warren County.<\/p>\nAs in the past, the Bear Slides Access Road will be closed to motor vehicle use by the general public but will remain open to people with disabilities holding CP3 permits.<\/p>\n
In addition, ongoing parking lot, road, trail, and public facility projects in the following areas will be suspended pending funding becoming available:<\/p>\n
\u00b7\tBlack Brook Easement Lands in the Town of Black Brook, Clinton County;
\n\u00b7\tKushaqua Easement Lands in the Towns of Brighton and Franklin, Franklin County; and
\n\u00b7\tAltamont Easement Lands in the Town of Tupper Lake, Franklin County.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"State environment officials say New York’s “historic budget shortfall” will force the DEC to close […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2045"}],"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=2045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2046,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2045\/revisions\/2046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}