{"id":3450,"date":"2010-12-27T05:58:29","date_gmt":"2010-12-27T10:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=3450"},"modified":"2010-12-29T11:17:45","modified_gmt":"2010-12-29T16:17:45","slug":"martens-to-head-conservation-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/12\/27\/martens-to-head-conservation-department\/","title":{"rendered":"Martens to head Conservation Department?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.timesunion.com\/capitol\/archives\/50779\/martens-being-looked-at-for-dec\/\">The Albany Times-Union<\/a> is reporting that environmental advocate Joe Martens could be Governor-elect Andrew Cuomo\u2019s pick to head New York\u2019s Conservation Department.<\/p>\n<p>According to the newspaper, Martens isn\u2019t a sure-choice, but his name has come up repeatedly during talks over the position.<\/p>\n<p>Martens currently heads the Open Space Institute, which has helped to engineer major land conservation deals in the Adirondack Park.<\/p>\n<p>He also serves as president of the Olympic Regional Development Authority Board, which operates sporting venues in Johnsburg, North Elba and Wilmington.<\/p>\n<p>Despite his work as a conservation leader, he has drawn accolades from some local government leaders in the Park.<\/p>\n<p>Cuomo has begun naming his cabinet and top advisors, but has yet to pick leaders for the DEC or the Adirondack Park Agency.<\/p>\n<p>The DEC was hit hard by lay-offs and cutbacks over the last year and was rocked in October by the firing of commissioner Peter Grannis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Albany Times-Union is reporting that environmental advocate Joe Martens could be Governor-elect Andrew Cuomo\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[4870,884,20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3450"}],"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=3450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}