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The Great Sacandaga Lake (formerly the Sacandaga Reservoir) is a large lake situated in the Adirondack Park in northern New York in the United States. The lake has a surface area of about 41.7 square miles (108 km 2) at capacity, and the length is about 29 miles (47 km). The word Sacandaga means "Land of the Waving Grass" in the native Mohawk ...
Old growth ponderosa pine in Lost Forest. Lost Forest covers approximately 9,000 acres (36 km 2). It is a self-sustaining stand of ponderosa pines growing in the arid high desert, 40 miles (64 km) from the nearest contiguous pine forest. The Bureau of Land Management considers 4,153 acres (1,681 ha) to be prime forest land with large old-growth ...
[3] [4] The outlet is a channel that leads to Lake Pleasant, which is the source of the Sacandaga River. The lake covers an area of 1,608 acres (651 ha), entirely within the boundaries of New York's Adirondack Park, a mean depth of 28 feet (8.5 m), and a maximum depth greater than 50 feet (15 m). [4] It lies at an altitude of 1,725 feet (526 m).
Pinus ponderosa, commonly known as the ponderosa pine, [3] bull pine, blackjack pine, [4] western yellow-pine, [5] or filipinus pine, [6] is a very large pine tree species of variable habitat native to mountainous regions of western North America. It is the most widely distributed pine species in North America.
Location: Adirondack Park, Hamilton County, New York, US: Coordinates: 1]: Type: Lake: Primary inflows: Sacandaga Lake Outlet, Sucker Brook, Cherry Brook: Primary outflows: Sacandaga River: Basin countries: United States: Max. length: 4 mi (6.4 km): Max. width: 1 mi (1.6 km): Surface area: 1,475 acres (5.97 km 2) [1]: Average depth: 29 feet (8.8 m): Max. depth: 62 feet (19 m) [2]: Shore length ...
Stewart's Dam, in Hadley, New York, on the Sacandaga River, holds back the Stewart Bridge Reservoir, one of the largest reservoirs in America to be contained by an earthen dam. [ citation needed ] Further upstream is the Conklingville Dam which creates the Great Sacandaga Lake .
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The rising water eventually found an outlet over a small divide at Conklingville. The outlet gradually eroded, draining the lake. The Conklingville dam was proposed to block this outlet, and nearly restore the configuration of the glacial lake. [4] The Sacandaga River was subject to periodic severe floods. A dam had been considered since the ...