Rockefeller State Park Preserve

The Stone Barns Center for Food & Agriculture Was Not the Model Farm It Claims to Be, Former Workers Allege | Eater

"A sprawling, roughly 1,700-acre public park managed within the Rockefeller family’s former holdings, the preserve figures in accounts of a chaotic livestock episode in which cattle being managed for an expanded grazing program stampeded onto its carriage roads and into woodlands, prompting weeks of searches, public safety responses including a police helicopter, and a final encounter in which an escaped steer was shot; the park’s carriage roads and public access — used by dog walkers and horse carriage keepers — amplified the public-safety implications of the episode and illustrated tensions that arose as the farm extended animal management onto neighboring public lands." - Meghan McCarron