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The Pittman–Robertson Federal Aid in Wildlife Restoration Act of 1937 places an excise tax on guns and ammunition, of which 10% is returned to the states to fund restoration and management efforts for wildlife including purchase of habitat. New York State Bond Acts in 1960, 1972 and 1986 have also helped fund the WMA system.
Western New York: located on Conesus Lake in Vitale Park, co-sponsored by the Town Clark Reservation State Park: Jamesville: Onondaga: Central New York: 377 acres, nature center is operated by the Council of Park Friends Clay Pit Ponds State Park Preserve: Staten Island: Staten Island: New York City: 260 acre nature preserve and interpretive center
Pages in category "Wildlife management areas of New York (state)" The following 48 pages are in this category, out of 48 total.
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 ...
Long Island National Wildlife Refuge Complex is a National Wildlife Refuge complex in the state of New York.All of the component refuges are located on Long Island.. The Long Island National Wildlife Refuge Complex consists of seven national wildlife refuges, two refuge sub-units and one wildlife management area, all managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
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 Great Baehre Swamp Wildlife Management Area is a 270-acre (110 ha) state wildlife management area operated by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC). The majority of the property (260 acres [110 ha]) protects shrub swamp and emergent wetlands, with the remainder covering grassland and brush.
New York State and federally protected piping plover, least tern, and common tern depend on the refuge's rocky shore for foraging and rearing young. The spring bloom at Target Rock is a reminder of its days as a garden estate, with flowering rhododendrons and mountain laurel. The property was donated to the federal government by Ferdinand ...