1999

• Deal may be near on Sterling Forest land  12/15/99
• Doris Duke Foundation Awards $9.35M in NJ 12/16/99
• Jan Hesbon named new Executive Director  12/8/99
• NJ announces Federal Funds for Trails 11/16/99
• LWCF clears House committee! 11/10/99 revised 11/28/99
• The Highlands Trail in NJ is a Millennium Trail 10/24/99
• Trail Conference opens NJ Office 10/19/99
• Hurricane Floyd Damage  9/21/99
• AHS discount memberships  8/27/99
• Respond to the Draft Trails Plan for the Delaware Water Gap  
• Breakneck Ridge Repair Project 9/21/99
• Wolves and Wilderness Oct. 5 ADK-NYC meeting - feature program 8/26/99
• Gala Dinner for Neil  8/27/99
• Executive Director Job Announcement 8/10/99
• JoAnn Dolan steps down as Executive Director of Trail Conference 7/6/99
• Fire Danger - most open 8/27/99
• Backpacker Magazine Special Offer (Expired)
• Nature Walks in New Jersey now available
• Overlook Trail now open  
• NYC opens new watershed lands to hiking  
• New Jersey Land & Water Fund Conservation Summit 
• Bearpen Mountain purchased by NYS 
• Welcome to those who found us from the article in the New York Times  5/27/99
• Press Release on Acid Rain 5/21/99
• Nominations for Board of Directors and At-large Delegates   4/30/99
• Delegates Meeting  - June 10 - Special guest speakers, Susan Homes, Jeff Tittel, Tom Gilbert   6/8/99
• Motorized Trail bill introduced in NJ -- NYNJTC strongly opposes 5/7/99
• Quarry permit near Norvin Green rejected  5/7/99
• National Trails Day, June 5, 6  5/28/99 (updated event schedule)
• High Peaks Management Plan released   4/26/99
• OSI purchases 36 acres near AT in South Mountain Pass  4/22/99
• Highlands Sparta Mountain TV tower alert  5/7/99
• Sterling Forest State Park Master Plan Scoping Meetings 4/28/99
• Sterling Forest Corporation EIS Scoping Meeting (privately held land) 4/20/99
• Fire danger increasing  4/8/99
• Trail Conference offers publications workshop on May 2 2/11/99
• Land and Water Conservation Fund Alert  3/17/99
• Temporary relocation of AT for Construction at Taconic Parkway   2/12/99
• Scenic Hudson New Executive Director Announcement 1/14/99
• LYMErix™ World's First Lyme Disease Vaccine   1/12/99
• Millennium Trails Program (suggest what the TC should do)
• Comment on the Catskills Access Plan by March 12  3/2/99
• New PIPC Executive Director 1/6/99
• New Jersey Walk Book  Now available 12/4/98
• Pataki - State of State Message 1/7/99
• Adirondack Land Deal 12/10/98
• Comment on the Overlook Mountain Draft UMP by Jan. 11, 1999 1/4/99

1998

• NJ Open Space Election News  11/4/98
• Elizabeth Levers dies 11/2/98
• Clean Water/Clean Air Bond Act Aids Campgrounds, Public Lands 10/1/98
• Pride in Our Parks: Stable source of funding to be on ballot in November 8/3/98
• Public Hearing on Thalle Industries quarry October 29, 1998 10/6/98
• National Public Lands Day 9/26/98 - Sterling Forest 9/14/98
• Study Ecological Resources Within State Parks   6/10/98
• It's here - New York Walk Book 4/29/98
• The Trail Conference is now a Barnes and Noble Affiliate   5/19/98
• Complete Traveler Bookstore 6/26/98
• Missing Person - last seen in Fahnestock State Park, NY   6/10/98
• Grassroots Lobby Day June 22 (NJ)
• NY State Open Space Plan for 1998
• Announcing  Pride in Our Parks initiative for New Jersey
• Press conference Feb 11 celebrating Sterling Forest Acquisition
• Whitney Park in the Adirondacks
• New publication - Scenes & Walks in the Northern Shawangunks

1997

• Trail Use Fees, Memorial day weekend in NH
• Major progress on Sterling Forest Acquisition, March 12, 1997
• Ellenville Tract, December 19, 1997
• NYS Constitutional Convention vote - Nov. 4 (NO vote wins)
• NYS Open Space Plan Hearings 12/9 and 12/10
• New trail system developing along the D&H Canal in Sullivan County
• Hunting season 1997 Revised (TW wrong)
• Developers donate land for Long Path near Nyack

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