Celestial Bear Comes Down to Earth Myth or story originating here between Delaware and Hudson river Munsee Mahican peoples
Thomas Pownall served as lieutenant governer and later governor of New Jersey from 1755 to 1759 and as governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony from 1757 to 1759.
NJ Frontier as seen from Kittatinny Plateau
Some of the common abuse in the Now Recreation Area, Why More Rangers are a must
Support Our National Park System Long Live the NJFrontier. Support the Movement: Delaware River National Park and Lenape Preserve.
Government must become the Means Proper for a better National Park Sphere of Influence. Organic Act Principals and CFR enforcements can only make things better. When will Politics and Science become One.The Climate Change Predicament. DEWA should be part of a North Jersey Ecosphere, a continuum of the Great Parks and Reserves that surround them
Seems people continue to be their own worse enemy: The anti-government elements of the population pop-up everywhere; even the Walpack Historical Society is against the change from "recreation area" to National Park. They site the poor job the present Park Staff has done in protecting the resource over the recent years. What they allege, to me is a hypothetical; "and it will only get worse". Trash and other disrespect is the common theme; the other being no enforcements or consequences suffered by the violators. Short staffing and funding for resources seems not to hold much legitimacy, and for whatever reason these Anti-National Park People feel, it will get worse. More Resources a Must and Rules Enforced. Can Congress Guarantee a better Place? Only a guarantee of a positive upgrade in additional and more diligent Law-Enforcement Rangers, with funding for Historical and wildlife preserves will have any hope. This would depend on Congress.
All we see now is funding for roads and trash hauling. (while common and wild places suffer impacts, that are not remedied by authority).
Promoting Native Americans returning to an original homeland in the Minnisinks seems appropriate. This in itself would be a build back better
*This old frontier area of Pennsylvania and New Jersey has more French & Indian War 7-years war, forts than any other Federal Landscape in the National Park System .
People and Authority must bend toward the resource Bend to the resource; end the free for all. Fees of course upsets the cheap skates. The old arguments of hunters and fishermen will be curtailed also are factors. Therefore only positive guarantees of a build back better Park can have any hope. People must understand that we must bend to the resource, not the resource to us, in some laissez faire mess. The Government must present a patriotism of the Means Proper, for this park. It's ironic that we already have a "national recreation area" despite the fact of no Tock's Dam; so what can be lost in a Title Change Endeavor?. ..I do believe and with experience the park, has been overall too lacks in defending the resource and enforcing CFR rules, despite the low staff. Media Attention should have exposed the abuse, and made an issue of the impacts. The arguments against a National Park, instead of the now "recreation area" are hypothetical, and storms in a teacup; false premises. Support the National Park Status Title change tell your Congressional Officials. Love Live the New Jersey Frontier..
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