Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York November 8, 2007 (State v. Johnson)

Peters. J.

Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court (McCarthy, J.), entered April 28, 2006 in Ulster County, upon a decision of the court in favor of plaintiff.

The former plaintiff in this action, the Awosting Reserve,1 was founded by John Bradley in the late 1950s as a nonprofit organization for the purpose of preserving the natural wilderness of the Shawangunk Mountains.