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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 ...
Location. New York, United States. Coordinates. 43°43′44″N 74°42′04″W / 43.729°N 74.701°W / 43.729; -74.701. Area. 100.5 sq mi (260 km 2) The Moose River Plains Wild Forest is a 64,322-acre (100.5 sq mi; 260.3 km 2) tract in the Adirondack Park in Hamilton and Herkimer counties in the state of New York in the United ...
Wilderness areas of New York (state) Wikimedia Commons has media related to Wilderness Areas of New York (state). 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 ...
QUINCY ‒ It's official. Quincy's free, seasonal outdoor skating rink will open for the second straight year on Monday, Dec. 2, the day following the city's annual Christmas parade.. Commissioner ...
Sign at bounds of New York State Forest Preserve land. New York 's Forest Preserve, comprises almost all the lands owned by the state of New York within the Adirondack and Catskill parks. It is managed by the state Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC). As of 2022, the Forest Preserve covers nearly 3 million acres (12,000 km 2), about ...
Onondaga Lake is a dimictic lake, [3] meaning that the lake water completely mixes from top to bottom twice a year. The lake is 4.6 miles (7.4 km) long and 1 mile (1.6 km) wide making a surface area of 4.6 square miles (12 km 2). [3] The maximum depth of the lake is 63 feet (19 m) with an average depth of 35 feet (11 m). [4]
The Catskill Park is in the Catskill Mountains in the U.S. state of New York. It consists of 700,000 acres (280,000 ha; 2,800 km 2) of land inside a Blue Line in four counties: Delaware, Greene, Sullivan, and Ulster. As of 2005, 287,500 acres (116,300 ha) [1] or 41 percent of the land within, is owned by the state as part of the Forest Preserve ...
NY wildfire breaks through, 160 homes evacuated as blazes keep Northeast at risk. Jorge L. Ortiz, USA TODAY. November 17, 2024 at 4:32 PM. Firefighters were operating under high risk that flames ...