Consolidated Edison’s proposal to build a new kind of hydroelectric plant at Storm King mountain on the Hudson River focused a growing but unorganized interest of the Region’s citizens in preserving especially beautiful natural sites, enlarging the opportunities for outdoor recreation in and near the Region, and saving the natural habitat of fish, animal and plant life.
Now those three interests are organized as they relate to the Hudson. Several citizen groups have begun work on preserving the river’s natural beauty, expanding access to it and its use for recreation, and reclaiming parts of the shore which have been blighted.
