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The trail runs through Forever Wild Preserves as seen on page 5 of the Masterplan, in the middle graphic. If that were not the case, or if there were not sensitive wetlands located there (and that have been described as having a biodiversity not seen elsewhere in the Bronx), the DEC would not have any role here. The park has one of the last remaining freshwater wetlands in the city and the city in 2009 proclaimed in Local Law 31 that preserving wetlands takes precedence over competing land uses.

The Bloomberg parks department is known to have designed changes in parks without paying attention to how their designs impact the environment. The Trail has to be done correctly because it impacts not just in the park itself, but waterways downstream.