KINGSTON – Members of the Ulster County Legislature will lobby Albany for additional funding in the state budget for the Catskill Park and Catskill Forest Preserve.
Local lawmakers are hoping to get more money from the state’s Environmental Protection Fund, according to Thomas Briggs, chairman of the Economic Development, Tourism, Housing, Planning and Transit Committee.
Their pitch will target state legislators representing the area to urge them to include state money to support and maintain the forests and open space land, “especially with our tourism and the dollars we receive from that,” Briggs said. “Anything that we can do to maintain or improve that natural beauty is a win for us.”
The Ulster County request will be in the form of a memorializing resolution, which carries no weight of law with it.
