EPA press release on Williamsburg youth job training, Dec 2001

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PA. The New York Times Grants will help protect land in a 26-miIlion-acre stretch of forest.

that it recently acquired from the International Paper Company for $10.5 million. The properties, which are near the town of Long Lake in the central Adirondacks, include a pris­ tine 800-acre lake that has not been open to the public. The Adirondack chapter’s director of land protection, Todd Dunham, said the group borrowed money to buy the land and plans to eventually Denise Schlener, said the goal was resell it to New York State, or to not to acquire all the private prop­ private owners who will promise not erty in the Northern Forest but to to' develop it “The property was protect pieces that would link togeth­ available, and we had to move on it er adjoining forest areas to preserve the larger landscape. She estimated as quickly as we could,” he said. that as many as 5 million acres could “These kinds . , of resources - „ don’t be protected with money from the come up for sale very often. institute’s program. The Northern Forest covers about The $400,000 grant to the Nature 14 million acres in Maine, 8 million Conservancy’s Adirondack chapter acres in New York and 2 million will be used to repay part of the loan acres each in Vermont and New used to buy three large tracts of land Hampshire.

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