In Allegany State Park, we thought Governor Pataki had made a commitment to preserve the Parks forest against Commercial logging. He has delayed months and months in releasing a master plan to guarantee that. In the meantime commercialization continues there. Healthful Allegany schills for Coca-Cola now. Recently we found an unannounced 30-foot wide trail or highway cut through the woods at a cost of thousands of trees with the seeming purpose of making it easier to get to the Red Garter tavern in Salamanca.
State parks are public property to be preserved for our posterity as open and natural space.
They are not public-private enterprises to be consumed in commercial development. I have a Dear Visitor letter from Commissioner Castro, too. We challenge the present State administration to come up with a better way to service and preserve our parks one that does not give the parks away or consume them for commercial purposes. Joe Davis State Park is marvelous open space. It is farmland returning to forest.