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Sam's Point Preserve, or Sam's Point Dwarf Pine Ridge Preserve, is a 4,600-acre (19 km 2) preserve in Ulster County on the highest point (2,289 feet [698 m]) of the Shawangunk Ridge in New York, on the Wawarsing, New York-Shawangunk town line.
Pine Barrens in Rocky Point. In the 1970s the State of New York began acquiring large parcels to create a greenbelt.The federal government at Brookhaven National Laboratory transferred 2,300 acres (9 km 2) in 1971 and RCA transferred 7,200 acres (29 km 2) around Rocky Point in 1978 (for a cost of $1).
Hallock State Park Preserve (formerly Jamesport State Park) [3] is a 225-acre (0.91 km 2) state park and nature preserve located in the towns of Riverhead and Southold in Suffolk County, New York. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The park is situated on Long Island 's north shore, with nearly one mile (1.6 km) of beachfront facing Long Island Sound .
The park is a 265-acre (1.07 km 2) nature preserve, comprising wetlands, ponds, sand barrens, spring-fed streams, and woodlands. It includes pitch pine woods, and rare wildflowers such as cranberry , lizard-tail , possumhaw , and bog twayblade .
Long Island: Trout hatchery and education center about the freshwater ecosystems of New York Connetquot River State Park Preserve: Oakdale: Suffolk: Long Island: 3,473 acres, features the Long Island Environmental Interpretive Center: Constitution Marsh Audubon Center: Cold Spring: Putnam: Lower Hudson: 270-acre tidal marsh Cornell Lab of ...
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
The Trapps in the Mohonk Preserve. The Mohonk Preserve is a nature preserve in the Shawangunk Ridge, 90 miles (140 km) north of New York City in Ulster County, New York.The preserve has over 8,000 acres (32 km 2) of cliffs, forests, fields, ponds and streams, with over 70 miles (110 km) of carriage roads and 40 miles (64 km) of trails for hiking, cycling, trail running, cross-country skiing ...
The fort was commanded by General George Clinton, also the newly appointed Patriot governor of the State. Fort Montgomery and its companion fortification, the smaller Fort Clinton, on the southern bank of the Popolopen, held a combined garrison of roughly 700 Colonial soldiers. These men were from the 5th NY Regiment, Lamb's Artillery, Orange ...