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000 specimens that adorn the landscape of The New York Botanical Garden

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Saving the Shawangunks 000 specimens that adorn theAuthor: Carleton Mabee Photographs by: Nora Scarlett The successful grassroots fight to stop the construction of a 400 room hotel conference center and 500 condominiums around Lake Minnewaska in New York State s Shawangunk Mountains in the 1980s was a landmark victory for Hudson Valley environmentalists and became a blueprint for subsequent struggles to preserve open space against encroaching development in a uniquely beautiful landscape that The