Great propaganda. Maurice Hinchey tried to steal residents property rights back in the seventies and failed. The playground of the city and to hell with the local population.
Good point, the geology may be pristine but the forests have been 'interrupted' by human activity more than once. In 1905, many of the mountains had been denuded by tanneries and some pundits questioned why the state would preserve an area that had no innate natural value. The tracts of land that have never been affected by humans are minimal. Going back farther in time, native Americans cleared land for agricultural purposes by burning.
The Catskills are not "pristine". They have been widely used by humans for a large range of activities from trapping, to tanning, to timber harvest, to farming, to tourism, there is scarcely a speck of the Catskills which has not been touch by humans in one way or another. Most of the forest seen by visitors is second growth forest, beneath the cover of which can be found foundations, roads and walls. NYC-DEP no doubt approves of this mislabeling as it promotes their agenda to depopulate the watershed and destroy local businesses. I am sorry to see Mountainkeeper in bed with City on this issue. One would think CM would stand with the locals and not the outsiders. One would also expect CM to be truthful and honest, which, as demonstrated by this video, it is not.
