{"id":8956,"date":"2025-10-20T02:14:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T02:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/8956\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T02:14:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T02:14:13","slug":"discussion-time-should-the-state-buy-32000-whitney-estate-acres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/8956\/","title":{"rendered":"Discussion time: Should the state buy 32,000 Whitney estate acres?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When recently asked about New York State Gov. Kathy Hochul\u2019s position on Whitney Park, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adirondackexplorer.org\/tag\/whitney-estate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">the 36,600 Adirondack property currently in the process of being purchased by a Texas developer<\/a>, spokesman Ken Lovett said the governor \u201cremains committed to preserving the land\u2019s most vital natural resources, ensuring habitat connectivity, and creating recreational corridors for everyone\u2019s benefit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis includes providing the public with access to the forest preserve, benefiting both the local community and all New Yorkers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Oct. 8, the Explorer learned the governor is actively negotiating with Todd Interests to acquire 32,000 acres of the property to add to the Adirondack Forest Preserve.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.adirondackexplorer.org\/community-news\/government\/state-seeks-to-buy-majority-of-whitney-estate\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">READ MORE ABOUT IT HERE: State seeks to buy majority of Whitney estate<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Weigh in below with your thoughts: What\u2019s your take on this recent development?  What questions do you have that you\u2019d like answered? (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.adirondackexplorer.org\/almanack-adirondacks\/commentary-important-questions-for-the-trustees-of-whitney-park\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read Claudia Braymer of Protect the Adirondacks\u2019 list of questions here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When recently asked about New York State Gov. Kathy Hochul\u2019s position on Whitney Park, the 36,600 Adirondack property&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7183,7704,9,11,10,49,51,50,7705],"class_list":["post-8956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-adirondack-almanack","tag-debatable","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-whitney-estate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}