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imthejam · 2 years

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What’s up Tumblr!!! Been a long time.. anybody still active??

#suit #tattoos #new york #fall vibes #autumn #long hair #open road #harriman state park #style #portraits

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jnlane · 1 year

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072420 Harriman

That day the planned 6 mile hike became 20.

#justin n. lane #jnlanephotography #harriman state park #landscape photography

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rocklandhistoryblog · 4 months

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#FBF News From Yesteryear; 90YEARS AGO

January 18, 1934  Excerpt from Pearl River News

TO ERECT BRONZE TABLET TO “UNCLE BENNY” HYDE IN PALISADES INTERSTATE PARK [Images: (1) Benjamin Talbot Babbitt Hyde (a.k.a. “Uncle Benny”) with unidentified children, undated; (2) Hyde Memorial Tablet. Images courtesy of the Regional Museums–Harriman State Park.]

Members of the staff of the regional nature museums in the Palisades Interstate Park, and others who knew the work and the fine character of the late B. T. B. (“Uncle Benny”) Hyde, are joining in a permanent tribute to his memory, in the form of a bronze tablet to be placed in a suitable location in the Harriman Section of the Palisades Interstate Park, in the Highlands of the Hudson, for which subscriptions are now being collected.  Contributions from any interested persons will be received by Miss Ruby M. Jolliffe, Superintendent of the Camping Department of the Palisades Interstate Park, at Room 794, State Office Building, 141 Worth Street, New York City. It is hoped to raise enough to make an appropriate memorial which will be dedicated next June during the summer camping season.  “Uncle Benny” is lovingly remembered by many who were inspired and encouraged by him in the study of nature when he was chief of this work from 1918 to 1925, at the camps of the Boy Scouts of the Greater New York Council, at Kanawauke Lakes in the Park; but his work was extended to all the others of the eighty camp grounds in the Harriman Section. He was the first to lay out nature trails about the Kanawauke camps and to establish an indoor museum there, and he stimulated the establishment of similar features at other camping lakes…

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boricuacherry-blog · 6 months

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Joan D'Alessandro remembered as family's fight for child abuse victims marks 50 years

McGowan, who would later admit to the killing, wrapped her body, loaded it into his car and drove to Stony Point at the edge of Harriman State Park in Rockland County, New York, where Joan's body was found three days later, on Easter Sunday. Frederick Zugib, then the medical examiner for Rockland County, called the case one of the most brutal crimes he had investigated.

Rosemarie's staunch resistance to McGowan's potential release moved the still-grieving mother to ensure other families would not have to suffer the same trauma of fearing that their child's attacker would again be among the general population.

In 1997, she successfully lobbied for the passage of what came to be known as Joan's Law, which repealed parole eligibility for any detainees convicted of sexually assaulting or killing a child under age 14. The next year, federal lawmakers passed a similar rule.

Picture: On Easter Sunday, three days after she disappeared, Joan's small body was found in Harriman State Park in New York

McGowan remained grandfathered into his sentence and was never subject to the new rule. Yet he never benefited from the carve-out and died in 2021 while serving a life sentence at South Woods State Prison, four years before he would have been up for parole yet again.

"She was a leader," said Olivia Galgano, who taught Joan's ballet class and five decades later can still vividly recall the waifish girl. "Often, I would say we have to line up and she would run to be first."

Mere months after McGowan's death, the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office cut the ribbon on "Rosemarie's Room," a new extension to the office's Child Advocacy Center in Paramus, where law enforcement, medical and mental health professionals can tackle allegations of child abuse. Jason Love, then the chief detective of the office, described the expansion as a "safe place for our children to whisper their secrets."

It was allegedly the whisper of a secret that was McGowan's undoing. As Tobin continued to recount the investigation into Joan's death Wednesday at the Hillsdale train station, he said that as investigators grilled McGowan for the second time, probing his involvement in the savage killing, their suspect continued to deny any part in what occurred. As their scrutiny grew closer to the truth, he did not request an attorney, but a priest, Tobin said. Offering him the same privilege as they would someone in a confession booth, the detectives stepped out while McGowan spoke with the cleric. On his way out of the interrogation room, Tobin said, the priest turned to the officers and told them, "Fellas, keep questioning him."

Rosemarie details her fight to keep Joan's memory alive in a soon-to-be-released book, "The Message of Light Amid Letters of Darkness." Proceeds from the book's sale will benefit the Joan Angela D'Alessandro Foundation, which advocates for child victims of abuse.

In the D'Alessandro home, Joan's memory is very much alive. Colorfully painted rooms are adorned with photos of the spry, auburn-haired little girl who had a magnetic personality. Her bronzed ballet slippers and favorite trinkets sit atop shelves. And drawings of butterflies she carefully colored are framed and hung on the wall. The butterfly has become symbolic to D'Alessandro and is integral to Joan's garden in the center of her hometown in Hillsdale, New Jersey. The second time Rosemarie returned to the site Joan's body had been found, a white flicker caught her eye. It was a white cabbage butterfly that greeted her as she approached the boulder with a crevice.

#true crime #joan d'alessandro #homicide #joseph mcgowan #hillsdale #new jersey #solved #1973 #70s

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clfpc · 7 months

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MBS 826 Idaho Harriman State Park

#postcard #idaho #harriman

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viff-thology · 9 months

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Profile : Spencer

Full name : Spencer Reeves

YoB : 1989

Nationality : American

Affiliation : Behavioral Analysis Unit, FBI (field agent).

Based in : Washington, D.C.

Family : Father, mother, a younger sister.

Appearance : ETY 1.0, Spin-off : Anna.

Notes : Multilingual (English, French, Russian, Deutsch), left-handed

Early life

Spencer finished his degree in psychology and law before joining the FBI in 2012 and promoted as permanent member of the Behavioral Analysis Unit in 2015 alongside of Emma Kensington. Trained in field mission as well as suspect interrogation, Spencer was one of the most prominent member of the team, frequently sent out for multinational cases for his multilingual talent (and his prowess in acting to know one when he actually doesn't).

ETY 1.0

2021

Port Reading

Spencer was first sent out to investigate upon reports of illegal immigration and concerns of trafficking near Port Reading, New Jersey in 2021, a year before the shooting of Theodore Haven. His team discovered a Russian-dominated community called Voronaskaya and a man called Yuri who seemed to be in charge of everything in the port. Although not finding anything suspicious, Spencer decided to keep tabs on the community for future references, seeing the community has decent resources and a strategic site for ocean traffics.

2022

Avalone

Spencer was approached by Emma in regard of a peculiar, cryptic crime-planning group chat activity by the name of Avalone, which claimed to be a heist team in pursuit of valuable possessions owned by a family whom identities were published as codes and puzzles. Although initially not seeing any purpose in participating and solving puzzles, Spencer and Emma were soon able to spot a specific member of the group directing back to the Voronaskaya. With the assumption of the community's involvement in the planned crime, Spencer and Emma got involved up until the finale of the heist, a Korean-influenced wedding ceremony located in a remote island. It was there that Emma first encounter a wounded Shaking, and Spencer had an altercation with Joan and Mark, all identified as part of the Voronaskaya community. Both agents were not involved in any of the commotions caused by the heist group and chose to leave immediately, and decided to keep all the events out of the FBI's tabs.

Emma's Death

The following day after returning to Washington D.C., the internal dispatcher of FBI notified Spencer of an emergency notification coming from Emma's radio. Ignoring the team chief's instruction to leave the emergency for the SWAT to handle, Spencer arrived at Emma's house just moments after the SWAT evacuated Emma's dead body from her house, along with a note left by the suspect of the murder telling her to 'not snoop in what she shouldn't'.

This event has taken Spencer's seriousness in

Spin-off : Anna

Spencer was tasked for the investigation of several unlicensed lab-like warehouses in New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Ohio, which has been found housing thousands of mice, hazardous materials, medical waste, and infectious agents. His investigation has led him to a newer chain of warehouse on the border of Harriman State Park, which is passed by Interstate-287 Highway. His investigation is preceded by Anna who accidentally finds one of the warehouses on reports from several interstate truck drivers.

Spencer then settled to investigate the biohazard case with Anna in NYPD jurisdiction in regard of the ownership of the warehouse, how it spread across the Americas, the whereabouts of other warehouses, and the implication of mutant mice that already had disease-spreading genes in them.

#profiles

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royalmercer-c23-archived · 2 years

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LOCATION: a hiking trail in Harriman State Park, NY STATUS: open

So many people talk about going to the forest for the quiet. Not Royal. To his ears, the forest is awash in a symphony of sound – birdsong, gentle wind, rushing water, and the thrumming pulse of life. Being a bear has some pretty sweet perks.

A new scent drifts past on the breeze – a hiker! Hell yes. His ears swivel atop his head, searching for the sound of footsteps. He can’t hear them yet, which means he still has time. Better get into position now though, in case it’s a runner.

He meanders through the trees over to the trail marker and plops his big bear butt down.

It takes them some time to reach him, but as they come ‘round the bend Royal lifts one great paw and waves to them in silent greeting.

#c23starter

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dragonmuse · 2 years

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As a Londoner turned very reluctant New Yorker, your Leda-verse gives me strong NYS vibes. Did you ever have a location in mind for this series? Or have you kept it intentionally vague?

It's intentionally vague because I wanted it be relatable as possible and also it's a bit of mushy, dreamy combination city in my head. But you have clocked me!

I grew up only a short drive up the parkway to NYC, and still live fairly close by, and it absolutely colors my writing. But I do picture parts of the 'city' in Ledaverse as a little Philly, a little Boston and a little Pittsburgh as well. I like the idea of more sprawl. Now that I'm thinking about it, the DNA of the area around the Revenge is definitely from Queer as Folk (US) which was set in Pittsburgh.

Oluwande and Jim's day trips skirt upward into my neck of the woods. The Ren Faire with it's Pirate Weekend is the one I go to every summer. Faith and Izzy's camping trip probably wasn't far either, ranging into Harriman State Park.

#leda house and the kraken verse #ask answered

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spacetimewithstuartgary · 2 years

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A River Routed Under the Mountains The rugged, steep Rocky Mountains rise abruptly in the middle of Colorado, splitting the state roughly in half between the western high country and the eastern plains. The extreme contrast of these landscapes also brings an extreme disparity in water. The Western Slope receives 80 percent of the state’s precipitation, as weather systems rising to cross the continental divide shed their loads of rain and snow before moving east. Water that falls to the west of the divide drains toward the Pacific Ocean, while water that falls to the east runs toward the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic. The plains of eastern Colorado, however, are semi-arid. In 1820, explorer Stephen Harriman Long—for whom Long’s Peak is named—famously dismissed it as a “Great Desert” unsuitable for agriculture. But the sandy, loamy soil can make fertile farmland when irrigated. In the mid- to late-19th century, the Gold Rush and the arrival of the railroad brought an influx of settlers to Colorado, including ranchers and farmers. Then in the 1880s, the plains received higher-than-average precipitation. The new settlers plowed under native drought-resistant grasses and used eastern farming techniques to grow wheat and corn, practices that would later contribute to soil erosion and the Dust Bowl. When drier conditions returned, the residents looked to the Rocky Mountain snowpack and the Colorado River, then known as the Grand River, as a reliable source of water for irrigation. One of the first efforts to tap that supply was the Grand River Ditch. Beginning in 1900, the ditch diverted water from the Never Summer Mountains through Poudre Pass and into the Cache la Poudre River. In the early 1930s, during the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl drought, farmers and their representatives formed the Grand Lake Committee and conceived a more ambitious plan to divert water from the Western Slope of the Rockies and connect the Colorado and Big Thompson rivers. After much negotiation, construction of the Colorado-Big Thompson Project was begun by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation in 1938. By the time it was completed and declared fully operational in 1957, it comprised 18 dams, 12 reservoirs, six hydroelectric plants, 95 miles (150 kilometers) of canals, and 35 miles (55 kilometers) of tunnels. The most critical of these is the tunnel that runs 13 miles (21 kilometers) under Rocky Mountain National Park and was named for U.S. Senator Alva B. Adams, who championed the project in Congress. In 1940, two teams of workers began tunneling from either side of Rocky Mountain National Park: one from the West Portal at Grand Lake and one from the East Portal southwest of Estes Park, Colorado. In 1944, when the drilling teams met thousands of feet below the continental divide, the two sides of the tunnel were misaligned by just the width of a penny. The complex task of lining the 9.75-foot (3-meter) diameter tunnel with concrete took a few more years before first water flowed through the tunnel in 1947. The portals are visible in the image above, which was acquired on September 2, 2021, with the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8 and overlain with topographic data from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM). Snowmelt and runoff collected in Lake Granby is pumped to a canal that flows into Shadow Mountain Reservoir and Grand Lake, where it enters the West Portal of the Adams tunnel. Upon exiting the East Portal, the water flows into the Wind River toward Mary’s Lake, then proceeds through other tunnels and canals to multiple Front Range reservoirs. Between the West and East portals, the tunnel’s elevation drops 109 feet (33 meters). Driven by the force of gravity, water flows through the tunnel at a rate of 550 cubic feet (15.5 cubic meters) per second—traveling the length of the tunnel in about two hours. It was a $160 million feat of civil engineering (roughly equivalent to $2 billion in today’s dollars). But it was not achieved without some controversy. Many residents of the Western Slope felt they were not being adequately compensated for the loss of water. Conservationists feared the project would despoil the natural beauty of Rocky Mountain National Park. The project proceeded after officials reached an agreement to construct the Green Mountain dam and reservoir to store water on the Western Slope, and to move the tunnel portals outside the boundaries of the national park. Today, the Colorado-Big Thompson project delivers 200,000 acre-feet of water a year to northeastern Colorado, quenching the thirst of one million residents and irrigating more than 600,000 acres of farmland. Although the diversion project was initially built to irrigate farms and fields, it now also supplies water for cities and towns, industry, hydropower generation, recreation, and fish and wildlife. In Colorado, where more than 80 percent of the people live where only 20 percent of the precipitation falls, such transbasin water diversions have become a part of life. NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey and topographic data from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM). Story by Sara E. Pratt.

#space #science #earth observatory #nasa #news #Colorado

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mbsposts · 2 months

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