Thanks to all our partners - the Palisades Interstate Park Commission, the Open Space Institute, the Trust for Public Land, the Public-Private Partnership, our NY and NJ Governors and Congressional and MANY MANY others who played significant roles in making this happen.... especially in the beginning when no one wanted to listen or thought it would ever happen.
The NY-NJ Trail Conference, its members, member clubs, board and staff all deserve to take pride in the results but a special thanks to NYNJTC Executive Director JoAnn Dolan and her husband Paul who were just about the first proponents of the SF effort and kept up the pressure and added creativity for so many years.
Soon, it will be "lets take a hike" --- in Sterling Forest State Park!
H. Neil Zimmerman, President
Press release by Governors Pataki and Whitman
JoAnn Dolan's speech (not delivered because of time restraints)
Last updated: 01/18/01