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Your Voice is Needed TO CREATE A NEW WILD RIVERS WILDERNESS . FOR THE YOUTH OF DISTANT TOMORROWS Confluence of the Hudson (right) and Cedar rivers on the Essex Chain of Lakes tract. Photo © Carl Heilman II, courtesy of the Adirondack Chapter of the Nature Conservancy. In the 1960s, Paul Schaefer and his Hudson River Association fought New York City and the Army Corps of Engineers to prevent dams that would have flooded the Upper Hudson River all the way to Newcomb, destroyed its wild beauty and shoreline, and foreclosed future recreational income from whitewater rafting, canoeing and kayaking. Today, we have the opportunity to create a new Wild Rivers Wilderness centered on the Upper Hudson and name it in honor of Paul Schaefer who has given our generation the chance to create a new wilderness and a wild economy to benefit people, local communities and wild nature. Paul Schaefer, 1947. Please write the Adirondack Park Agency in support of: • A Paul Schaefer Wild Rivers Wilderness inclusive of the heart of the area – the Essex Chain of Lakes, Cedar River, Hudson River Stillwater and Gorge, Indian River Tract, OK Slip Falls • Wilderness-user management actions to assure that in our desire to paddle, camp and otherwise enjoy these new public lands we do not damage them • Other state land classifications to permit bicycling, snowmobiling and other forms of mechanized recreation near highways and communities at the perimeter of the new Wilderness area Send your letter today to: James Connolly, Director of Planning, NYS Adirondack Park Agency, P.O. Box 99, Ray Brook, New York 12977, or via FAX (518) 891-3938. Thank you! To view our Action Alert: Protect the Essex Chain of Lakes & Hudson-Cedar River headwaters as WILDERNESS, please visit our website. We’re on the Wild’s Side... Safeguarding the Wild | Extending the Wild | Educating for the Wild www.adirondackwild.org.

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79 STAT. ] PUBLIC LAW 89-298-OCT. 27, 1965 1073 Public Law 89-298 Authorizing the Construction, Repair, and Preservation of Cert
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