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Robert Snyder relates a tale of his encounter with fishers in the woods of the Adirondack Mountains of New York. He recounts three sightings, including one where he witnessed a fisher attacking a porcupine. [92] In Winter of the Fisher, Cameron Langford relates a fictional encounter between a fisher and an aging recluse living in the forest ...
Relief map of New York (USGS) New York lies upon the portion of the Appalachian Mountains where the mountains generally assume the character of hills and finally sink to a level of the lowlands that surround the great depression filled by Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River. Three distinct mountain masses can be identified in the state.
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 ...
Tug Hill, sometimes referred to as the Tug Hill Plateau, [4] is an upland region in northern New York state, notable for heavy winter snows. [5] [6] The Tug Hill region is east of Lake Ontario, north of Oneida Lake, and west of the Adirondack Mountains. The region is separated from the Adirondacks by the Black River Valley.
The entire region lies within Adirondack Park, a New York state protected area of over 6,000,000 acres (2,400,000 ha). The park was established in 1892 by the state legislature to protect the region's natural resources and to provide recreational opportunities for the public. It covers over 20 percent of New York state's land area. [5]
The North Country of Upstate New York is the northernmost region of the U.S. state of New York.It is bordered by Lake Champlain to the east and further east to the adjacent state of Vermont and the New England region; the Adirondack Mountains / Adirondack Park and the Upper Capital District with the state capital of Albany to the south; the Mohawk Valley region of New York to the southwest ...
Didelphimorphia is the order of common opossums of the Western Hemisphere. Opossums probably diverged from the basic South American marsupials in the late Cretaceous or early Paleocene. The Virginia opossum is the only marsupial/opossum species in New York. Virginia opossum. Family Didelphidae (American opossums) Subfamily: Didelphinae. Genus ...
The Finger Lakes National Forest is a United States National Forest that encompasses 16,259 acres (65.80 km 2) of Seneca and Schuyler counties, nestled between Seneca Lake and Cayuga Lake in the Finger Lakes Region of the State of New York.