The Town of Warwick has a long tradition of activism to guide, support, or protest changes that will impact the natural environment.
This guide contains summaries and documents for four environmental activist movements that have has a profound impact on the quality of life in our town:
- The fight to prevent the Black Dirt from becoming a jetport in 1960-62.
- The protest of creation of a dumping area for radium in nearby Vernon (Warwick Against the Radium Dump, or WARD) in 1986.
- The creation of Sterling Forest State Park in reaction to proposed development, from 1950s-1998.
- The Open Space Preservation movement [Purchase of Development Rights, PDR, and subsequent actions] to save agricultural and environmentally important lands, from 1999-Current