I woke up this morning in Milford PA, located at the northern end of Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area. The park protects a steep valley carved by glaciers. The actual gap sits at the southern end, where the Delaware River passes through the Mid-Atlantic Highlands. The area has been a major tourist magnet for over a century. In the 1960s, the federal government planned to turn the entire area into a reservoir and bought out many residents. Popular sentiment had shifted against major dam projects by the time planning finished, which gave the emerging environmental movement enough leverage to force the project’s cancellation. That left the federal government with a large chunk of lan
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