To: NYSDEC Draft Unit Management Plan and NYSDEC Region 3
Protect Timber rattlesnake at Vernooy Kill State Forest
You can submit written comments, and they will also be accepted on the draft plan until November 13, 2018.
Why is this important?
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has completed a draft unit management plant for the Sundown Wild Forest & Vernooy Kill State Forest.
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Region 3 wants to do away with the target practice at Vernooy Kill State Forest and add a parking lot in the big field on Cutler Road and add a mountain bike trail. Timber Rattlesnakes visit this big field and they lay on the rocks in the summer time, Timber Rattlesnakes are listed on the New York State Threatened Species act. When they build this parking lot, they will be destroying their habitat, and the nearby bird habitat, by removing the trees and vegetation.
When they build this mountain bike trail in Vernooy Kill State Forest, thousands of people will visit this area with their mountain bicycles and some will try block the road by riding in the middle of Lundy Road and the trails will be destroyed during storms. Many people will go online and spread all over message boards to people that they can ride their bikes in Vernooy Kill State Forest and then in 10 years the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation would have to update the unit management plan to create a free one day permit system like they did with Peekamoose Blue Hole. There will be more garbage along the streams, in the parking lot and on the trails.
Department of Environmental Conservation says they want to get rid of target practice because they feel it is not safe in the Vernooy Kill State Forest, but they will still allow huntingThis does not make sense as people use firearms to hunt. People mostly come here to target practice not to ride their bikes.
Please help protect the Timber Rattlesnakes’ habitat, protect the streams and continue the target practice in Vernooy Kill State Forest by signing this petition.
After you sign this petition please go back to this page and write your comment below under reasons for signing you can write anything you like but please do not write any threatening messages, all the comments and signatures are sent to the NYSDEC inbox, Town officials and authorities after someone signs the petition.
You can submit written comments, and they will also be accepted on the draft plan until November 13, 2018. Comments can be sent to the following contact:
Pine Roehrs
NYS DEC
21 South Putt Corners Road
New Paltz, NY 12561
[email protected]
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Region 3 wants to do away with the target practice at Vernooy Kill State Forest and add a parking lot in the big field on Cutler Road and add a mountain bike trail. Timber Rattlesnakes visit this big field and they lay on the rocks in the summer time, Timber Rattlesnakes are listed on the New York State Threatened Species act. When they build this parking lot, they will be destroying their habitat, and the nearby bird habitat, by removing the trees and vegetation.
When they build this mountain bike trail in Vernooy Kill State Forest, thousands of people will visit this area with their mountain bicycles and some will try block the road by riding in the middle of Lundy Road and the trails will be destroyed during storms. Many people will go online and spread all over message boards to people that they can ride their bikes in Vernooy Kill State Forest and then in 10 years the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation would have to update the unit management plan to create a free one day permit system like they did with Peekamoose Blue Hole. There will be more garbage along the streams, in the parking lot and on the trails.
Department of Environmental Conservation says they want to get rid of target practice because they feel it is not safe in the Vernooy Kill State Forest, but they will still allow huntingThis does not make sense as people use firearms to hunt. People mostly come here to target practice not to ride their bikes.
Please help protect the Timber Rattlesnakes’ habitat, protect the streams and continue the target practice in Vernooy Kill State Forest by signing this petition.
After you sign this petition please go back to this page and write your comment below under reasons for signing you can write anything you like but please do not write any threatening messages, all the comments and signatures are sent to the NYSDEC inbox, Town officials and authorities after someone signs the petition.
You can submit written comments, and they will also be accepted on the draft plan until November 13, 2018. Comments can be sent to the following contact:
Pine Roehrs
NYS DEC
21 South Putt Corners Road
New Paltz, NY 12561
[email protected]