Are there any photos of the arch?
On Monday, October 20, 2025 at 12:11:28 PM EDT, Tim Gallagher
<[email protected]> wrote:
That’s terrible. I sure hope the Fuertes Arch didn’t end up as scrap metal at
a dump someplace. 🙁
On Oct 20, 2025, at 9:58 AM, Shelley Page <[email protected]> wrote:
This is a follow up from the mention in my Thursday Birding Meetup recap about
the fate of the Fuertes Arch at Frontenac Point state park, formerly Camp
Barton. Scott Sutcliffe has some insight and info to share and has given me
permission to share his thoughts with you. Here are his words:
In December of 2024, I received a phone call from a reliable Trumansburg friend
who kindly notified me there was a move afoot to remove the Fuertes Arch from
the Camp Barton property because of misinformation shared with NYS Parks that
Louis Agassiz Fuertes was a white supremacist and that the Arch should be
removed. Fuertes was nothing of the sort – he was a champion of humanity. It
appears Louis Agassiz Fuertes was mistakenly confused with Louis Agassiz, a
19th century scientist who defined white supremacy .
I immediately sent corrective information to NYS Parks, and soon thereafter
received a reply: “the actual physical arch needed to be removed from the
property as it incorporated icons related to the Boy Scouts that are no longer
appropriate given that the property is now New York State Parks property.”
When I next visited the park in the spring, the Fuertes Arch had disappeared.
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