'Save Sandy Hook' feels that going back to the origins of the U.S. National Park Service will help us all – citizens and federal officials – remember what the NPS is supposed to be all about, and that is not commercialization of park lands
Judith Stanley Coleman, chairman of the Save Sandy Hook citizens group
Thank you for your interest in Save Sandy Hook.
Please consider getting involved by participating in this charitable organization, contacting your federal, state, and local political representatives, lending financial support, or adding your name to our petition that currently has 7207 signatures.
The mission of our organization is to help conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and wildlife of Fort Hancock and Sandy Hook and to provide for the enjoyment of the same in such manner and by such means as will leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations.
October 21st, 2008
Pallone urges park service to end Ft. Hancock lease
Wants state, local officials and nonprofits to create plan
October 5th, 2008
Save Sandy Hook's right to file an appeal...late December...why has the National Park Service given six deadline extensions....
July 6th, 2008
National Park Service's
...sixth extension to
Sandy Hook Partners...
defies comprehension.
February 29th, 2008
Save Sandy Hook files appeal of federal judge ruling
September 18th, 2007
Save Sandy Hook...proposal overly commercial for Fort Hancock
September 7th, 2007
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January 11th, 2009 : Editorial, Asbury Park Press
Wassel would have 90 days from the filing deadline — less than 10 weeks from now — to demonstrate he had financing lined up
January 9th, 2009 : GEORGE MOFFATT , Asbury Park Press
...ignored park service rules by choosing Wassel in 1999 when he lacked the funding ....
January 8th, 2009 : KEVIN PENTON, Asbury park Press
Save Sandy Hook could seek to reopen the federal case
November 20th, 2008 : Peter P. O'Such Jr. , hub
...no contract or lease exists between the NPS and Sandy Hook Partners (SHP)....
November 6th, 2008 : Carol D. Leonnig, Washington Post
...a fundamental hostility toward...conserving national parks."
Save Sandy Hook will continue to fight Hook project
...commercialization was never envisioned by the founders of the National Park Service
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• Sandy Hook in 1874 was the first ordnance testing facility of the U.S. Army, including the famous Rodman Gun and the disappearing predecessor to Aberdeen and White Sands; Sandy Hook has the highest concentration of American Holly on the East Coast in a 264-acre maritime forest that includes stands of trees that are 170 years old;
• Sandy Hook peninsula is the only undeveloped barrier beach area on the northern end of the New Jersey Shore, north of Island Beach State Park. ;
• Sandy Hook was fortified during the War of 1812 and Fort Hancock and its gun batteries were established in 1895 to protect Raritan Bay and New York Harbo;
• Sandy Hook was one of the first landfalls sighted by Henry Hudson as he explored the Atlantic coastline;
• The tall, white lighthouse at Sandy Hook, New Jersey was the fifth lighthouse to be built in America, when erected in 1764, and today is the oldest standing light tower in the United States. originally called the "New York Lighthouse, " its unfailing beam has befriended innumerable vessels as they have passed in or out of New York.;
• Sandy Hook was held by Loyalists during the American Revolution, supporting the British occupation of New York Harbor;