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Friends of Liberty State Park
Statement on LSP interior's and the park's future: Major Commercialization and Privatization battle against billionaire Paul Fireman's surrogates' assault one the DEP's "New Vision" interior plans of diverse nature habitats and free active recreation. Also, Friends' support for key improvements. For the current battle for the interior, please visit this webpage DEP's 6/3/21 recording of Active Recreation Virtual Meetings of Updates presentation and public comments. It starts at 2 minutes 22 seconds in. After the 22 minute presentation are questions/comments starting at 24 minutes 28 seconds. It ends at 1 hour 44 minutes As with other online meetings, some of the Paul Fireman's funded surrogates are among the speakers The Friends Statement at this meeting is here.. DEP's LSP Ecosystem Natural Resource Restoraton Images of habitats and paths |
10/21/20 interior 21 minute overview
DEP video
presentation on LSP's interior 215 acres & DEP's commitment to active
recreation after not allowing active recreation since LSP opened in
1976.
The LSP visionary, world-class nature restoration plan, 25 years
in-the-making, consists of habitats and paths and other special
features which is wll benefit urban residents, science students, and all
visitors as an "eco-tourism" destination, and of course wildlife.
In addition to the first virtual DEP public meeting on 10/21/20 and the last one on 6/3/21, the other three DEP Interior virtual meetings with inital DEP video presentations, public comments and answered question are:
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1/7/21 Remediation
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1/21/21 Options
for Active Recreation Amenities |
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2/4/20 Ecological
Restoration 17 minute DEP video presentation |
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2/4/21
Ecological Restoration 2 1/2 hour full meeting |
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NJDEP's Liberty State Park website with those links and basic LSP info |
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1. News on the Interior Nature Restoration with trails
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6/4/21 The
Jersey Journal by
Joshua Rosario Play
ball! NJ DEP says it will devote 61 acres of Liberty State Park to active
recreation
The article has the major mistake that Paul Fireman "aborted" his
privatization assault on LSP which he announced after
his lobbyists' LSP privatization sneak attack failed in July 2020 in
a legislative budget bill. Fireman's phony front group, whose CEO Stovell
admitted being funded by Fireman, has continually viciously and untruthfully
attacked the Protection Act and the Friends of LSP in news stories, press
releases, and months of google ads, plus his well-connected lobbyist has
continued to give its disinformation to legislators.
-11/30/20 The Jersey Journal op-ed by Sam Pesin, FOLSP president - DEP on target with plans to remediate contamination in LSP "interior"
- 10/21/20 The Jersey Journal by Joshua Rosario "DEP 'heading in the right direction' on plan for LSP's 230-acre interior, Black leaders say"
- 10/23/20 The NJ Conservation Foundation op-ed by Executive Director Michele Byers "LSP plan up for public comment"
- 9/3/20 Press
Release: NJDEP SEEKS PUBLIC INPUT ON LANDMARK MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR
INVESTMENT IN LIBERTY STATE PARK
PROPOSED DESIGN RESTORES 234 ACRES OF
NATURAL RESOURCES, INCREASES PUBLIC ACCESSIBILITY
- 9/17/20 The NJ Conservation Foundation op-ed by Executive Director Michele Byers "Fulfilling A Dream for LSP" Interior Plan Q & A Article with Sam Pesin & Greg Remaud
- 1/11/18 Governor Christie's Press Release Announcing Restoration funding for Interior
- 1/11/18 The Record by Scott Fallon "Will polluted area of LSP finally be cleaned up"
2. The following Archives 6 links are the Interior landscape plans presented at a public input meeting in 2008 before there was $70 million announced at end of Governor Christie's administration for remediation and nature restoration. Governor Christie didn't start the first phrase with the $11 million the DEP had at the start of his terms. The detailed engineering process started in Governor Murphy's adminstration and the public's further input happened in October 2020.
- Presentation at 4/08 Public Meeting by landscape architect Margie Ruddick (50 pages)
3. News stories on the Restoration from before 2011
- Jersey City Independent (online newspaper) 11/12/10
"Nature Untamed: Liberty State
Park's Interior Natural Area Continues its Comeback"
- Jersey Journal 4/22/08 Restoration Final Plan Announced
- J J 4/25/08 Editorial - "Bettering Our Own National Treasure "
- Star-Ledger 4/22/08 Restoration Final Plan Announced
- Star-Ledger 4/23/08 Editorial-"A green rebirth for the park"
- Star-Ledger 1/14/09 - "A wasteland thrives in Jersey"
- Senate approves $22 million for Interior 9/07
- NYT '06 (Creating Liberty State Park from the Inside Out)
- Jersey City Magazine - Fall & Winter 2007 - 2008 Frank Gallagher interview
- SL article '06 (Turning back the Ecological clock)
- JCR article '02 (The Grass Gets Greener)
- JJ article '02 (Restoration of the River Shoreline proposed)
- Fall
2010 article on national restoration implications in the Kingston Times