Tell Governor Cuomo and NYS Senators to Support a $4M Line for the Catskills in the Environmental Protection Fund

March 14, 2016
Catskill Park Coalition

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Tell Governor Cuomo and NYS Senators to Support a $4M Line for the Catskills in the Environmental Protection Fund

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Help Us Make History! 
 
Tell Governor Cuomo and NYS Senators
to Support a $4M Line for the Catskills
in the Environmental Protection Fund
 
We only get one opportunity each year to increase protection for the spectacular Catskill Park and Forest Preserve. That opportunity comes during the annual New York State budget process, which is fast drawing to a close. 

Can we count on you to stand up for the Catskills? 

Things are moving very fast. 

On Friday, the Senate Democratic Conference included our request for a $4 million budget line for the Catskills in the Environmental Protection Fund in their budget priority letter to the Senate majority leader. 

On Saturday, the State Assembly put its full support behind the $4 million Catskills budget. 

We now need to ask representatives in the Senate and Governor Andrew Cuomo to include an ongoing $4 million budget line for the Catskill Park in a fully-funded Environmental Protection Fund budget. 

How you can help:
  • Use this email form, provided by our Catskill Park Coalition partner, Catskill Mountainkeeper, to ask your State Senator for support.
  • Tell Governor Cuomo to support the Catskills budget. Call 518-474-8390 or usethis email form.
  • Thank the Assembly and Senate Democrats for including this critical funding in their budget proposals.
Don't know who your representatives are in NY? Visit http://www.elections.ny.gov/district-map/district-map.html

Legislators and their staffs will be working on budget negotiations throughout the week. Please send your message to New York State Senators and the Governor today!

Our Catskill Park and Forest Preserve's 700,000 acres embody everything we love about the Catskills: forested mountains, winding valleys, and rushing streams and rivers.

Please stand with the New York-New Jersey Trail Conference and the Catskill Park Coalition and send your message now while the budget is being crafted and finalized.
 
THANK YOU!