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Credit: (joiseyshowaa via Creative Commons; CC BY-SA 2.0) Late afternoon at the Delaware Water Gap Last month, the Pennsylvania chapter of the Sierra Club announced that it, along with the New Jersey chapter, was reviving an effort to have the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area upgraded to full national park status. Not a single national park sits within New Jersey, Pennsylvania or New York, and yet the three states are home to some 40 million Americans nearly 13% of the U.S. population. Additionally, over 60 million people live within a three-hour drive of the Delaware Water Gap region. There are many national park “units” in the tri-state region, but they fall into other classifications and management schemes. Delaware Water Gap, as well as Gateway, are “national recreation areas,” because they were established beside bodies of water, where activities like swimming, boating and fishing can be done. The Pinelands is a “national reserve,” meaning it was cre

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