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(05/13/10) The Adirondack Park Agency was created in 1971. In the decades since, a debate has raged over how the Park should be managed.
Specific issues change from year to year. But the basic battle lines over conservation, property rights, and economic development have long seemed carved in stone.
But now some observers say the budget crisis in Albany is changing all that, throwing into doubt some of the core ideas about the Park and its future. Brian Mann has our special report.
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OK Slip Falls is one of the areas that the Nature Conservancy hopes to protect with the help of NY State. (Source: TNC, Carl Heilman photo)
But DEC commissioner Peter Grannis has been forced to slash staff and maintenance funding.
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