This event has been canceled. 


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Comments

1. Comment by parrhesia, Mar 27th, 2007 4:26pm

   Are any alternative, Preserve sanctioned events being planned? I know many people would be very excited to participate if so.




2. Comment by Debi Clifford, Mar 13th, 2007 12:00am

   RESPONSE FROM THE MOHONK PRESERVE:
   
   Thank you to all of you for expressing your concerns. Please be assured that THIS EVENT IS CANCELLED. We at the Mohonk Preserve were never asked about this proposed event and never condoned it. In early February, one of our staff alerted us to the action posting on the Step It Up site. We contacted the event organizer, Alana Sagin, who graciously agreed to our request not to hold this event on the Preserve. We then alerted Step-It-Up, who confirmed that the cliff action was cancelled.
   
   We did offer Alana the alternative of hanging a banner inside our Visitor Center, to show our support for raising awareness about this critical environmental issue. However, Alana hasn’t responded to this idea. So as of now, there is no planned action that we know of at the Mohonk Preserve.
   
   While the Mohonk Preserve is very concerned about global warming, we agree with other posters that this is not an appropriate event to hold on the cliffs -- especially because it would be happening during the nesting season of the endangered peregrine falcon.
   
   Instead, the Mohonk Preserve continues to do what we do best: using science to help protect the environment. Our Research Center’s weather records show that there’s been a two-degree rise in the average temperature over the last 110 years, and we’re already seeing global warming’s impact on several species (such as birds overwintering that used to migrate, etc.) We feel that one of the most important things we can do about this pressing global crisis is to share this data with scientists throughout the Northeast to document the scope and impact of the problem. (For an example of a climate change study underway on the Preserve, see the work of Ed Cook from Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory on our web site at http://www.mohonkpreserve.org/index.php?id=90#columbia)
   
   Again, thank you for your shared dedication to protecting these cliffs and this land for future generations.
   
   -- Debi Clifford, Communications Director