Well, not all New York Staters are city boys. in the Adirondacks (Northern, Fort Drum), Mohawk Valley, and upper reaches of Appalachia (the Southern Tier) you will find country men whose tradition has been winning wars. One of the latest examples of note was USMC Cpl. Jason L. Dunham, one like-minded of thousands of trained infantrymen, as I was. They have been in the rifleman tradition as hunters and soldiers since before the Revolutionary War. I hope they will acquit themselves with honor in this challenge. I've a mind to load up my gear and M-1 rifle and go back to stand with my cousins and their get in the effort.
Whoever was talking rock salt here was pounding it, IMHO. IEDs work just as well moving stumps and rocks in New York State as in Afghanistan. Not approving his use of fertilizer, but you might have asked Timothy McVeigh -- did a paper on that in my own quarrying engineering courses in NYS.