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The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (informally referred to as NYSDEC, DEC, EnCon or NYSENCON) is a department of New York state government. [4] The department guides and regulates the conservation, improvement, and protection of New York's natural resources; manages Forest Preserve lands in the Adirondack and Catskill parks, state forest lands, and wildlife management ...
Created in 2008 through re-classification of Cherry Ridge-Campbell Mountain Wild Forest and Middle Mountain Wild Forest. [10] Dry Brook Ridge: Delaware, Ulster: Catskill 8,900 acres (36 km 2) [4] Elm Ridge: Greene: Catskill 1,355 acres (5.48 km 2) [4] Ferris Lake: Fulton, Hamilton, Herkimer: Adirondack 147,454 acres (596.73 km 2) [11] Fulton ...
Managed as part of the 2,400-acre (9.7 km 2) Keyserkill State Forest Complex, which also includes Keyserkill State Forest and Armlin Hill State Forest. [9] Gee Brook: Cortland: State Forest 878 acres (3.55 km 2) [10] Genegantslet: Chenango: State Forest 3,181 acres (12.87 km 2) [27] General Jacob Morris: Otsego: State Forest 1,190 acres (4.8 km ...
New York State's wilderness areas are managed in a way essentially similar to their federal counterparts. Wilderness areas are those judged to have been far more affected by nature than humanity, to the extent that the latter is practically unnoticeable. As a result, the Forest Preserve's wildernesses boast extensive stands of virgin forest.
Stream and forest at Happy Valley Wildlife Management Area in Oswego County, New York. View of Lakeview Pond within Lakeview Wildlife Management Area. New York State Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs) are conservation areas managed by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) primarily for the benefit of wildlife, and used extensively by the public for hunting, fishing ...
The High Peaks Wilderness Area is the largest wilderness area of the Forest Preserve in the U.S. state of New York.It is located in three counties and six towns in the Adirondack Park: Harrietstown in Franklin County, North Elba, Keene, North Hudson and Newcomb in Essex County and Long Lake in Hamilton County.
Most of New York's legally recognized wilderness areas are managed by the state, part of its constitutionally-declared Forest Preserve in the Adirondack and Catskill parks. There is only one wilderness area on federal land protected by the U.S. National Wilderness Act of 1964.
The Pharaoh Lake Wilderness Area, an Adirondack Park unit of New York's Forest Preserve, straddles the Essex County-Warren County line in the towns of Ticonderoga, Hague, Horicon and Schroon. The county road along the east shore of Schroon Lake forms the western boundary; to the north, private land and NY 74 form the boundary.