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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 ...
Prospect Point at the Niagara Reservation, c. 1900.The reservation, known today as Niagara Falls State Park, was the first park opened by New York State.. State-level procurement and management of parks in New York began in 1883, when then-governor Grover Cleveland signed legislation authorizing the appropriation of lands near Niagara Falls for a "state reservation".
The Illinois state park system began in 1908 with what is now Fort Massac State Park, in the U.S. state of Illinois, becoming the first park in a system encompassing over 60 parks and about the same number of recreational and wildlife areas.
In New York, state parks are managed by the Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation (OPRHP), with the exception of the Adirondack and Catskill Parks which are managed by the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC). Outside of the Adirondacks and the Catskills, the state parks department is organized into eleven regions: Niagara
Starved Rock State Park was added in 1911 and remained, by far, the largest of Illinois' State Parks until the 1930s. In 1917 Illinois Governor Frank Lowden instituted major reforms in government which gave the governor direct control of state departments through a director who sat on a cabinet. Though many of the 1917 reforms, including one ...
Margaret Lewis Norrie State Park is a 356-acre (1.44 km 2) state park [2] in Dutchess County, New York in the United States. The park is located on the east shore of the Hudson River in the Town of Hyde Park and also includes Esopus Island .
450 acres, operated by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation: Forest Park Visitor Center: Queens: Queens: New York City: 538-acre city park, center open by appointment Forsyth Nature Center: Kingston: Ulster: Mid-Hudson: supported by the Friends of Forsyth Nature Center and the City of Kingston Parks and Recreation ...
Connetquot River State Park Preserve is a 3,473-acre (14.05 km 2) state park [1] and conservation area in the Town of Islip in Suffolk County, New York in the United States. . The park contains the Long Island Environmental Interpretive Center as well as the Southside Sportsmens Club District, which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1