{"id":3581,"date":"2011-01-18T06:36:41","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T11:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=3581"},"modified":"2011-01-18T17:49:53","modified_gmt":"2011-01-18T22:49:53","slug":"morning-read-i-snowmobilers-praise-finch-pruyn-easement-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/01\/18\/morning-read-i-snowmobilers-praise-finch-pruyn-easement-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Read I:  Snowmobilers praise Finch, Pruyn easement deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/poststar.com\/news\/local\/article_bd1475fc-2280-11e0-a7ef-001cc4c03286.html\">Glens Falls Post-Star<\/a> is reporting that snowmobilers are &#8220;ecstatic&#8221; over 89,000-acre Adirondack easement deal purchased late last year by the state of New York.<\/p>\n<p>The deal was engineered by the Adirondack Nature Conservancy and includes about sixty percent of land that the green group acquired from Finch, Pruyn as part of a $110,000,000 deal.<\/p>\n<p>New York state paid $30,000,000 for recreational easements.\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/poststar.com\/news\/local\/article_bd1475fc-2280-11e0-a7ef-001cc4c03286.html\">This from the Post Star<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Overall, the state easements open nearly 30 miles of snowmobile trails to the public, including routes from Newcomb to Long Lake and Indian Lake to the Moose River Plains, and a 15-mile trail from Indian Lake to Newcomb and Long Lake, according to The Nature Conservancy, which helped develop the plan.<\/p>\n<p>Other effects of the easements include new public access to High Nopit Mountain in Bolton and English Brook in Lake George; opportunities for camping in Stony Creek; and camping, hunting, fishing and paddling on the 2,000-acre Lake Desolation Road tract that includes Archer Vly, a lake in Greenfield, according to The Nature Conservancy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"http:\/\/poststar.com\/news\/local\/article_bd1475fc-2280-11e0-a7ef-001cc4c03286.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Glens Falls Post-Star is reporting that snowmobilers are &#8220;ecstatic&#8221; over 89,000-acre Adirondack easement deal [&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":[22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3581"}],"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=3581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}