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An old logging road through a pine plantation at Morgan Hill State Forest in Onondaga County, New York.. New York State Forests are public lands administered by the Division of Lands and Forests of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC).
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 ...
A small island in Lower Saranac Lake, part of Saranac Lakes Wild Forest. This is a list of wild forests in the state of New York. Lands designated as "wild forest" in New York are managed by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation as part of the Forest Preserve.
Stream and forest at Happy Valley Wildlife Management Area in Oswego County, New York. View of Lakeview Pond within Lakeview Wildlife Management Area. New York State Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs) are conservation areas managed by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) primarily for the benefit of wildlife, and used extensively by the public for hunting, fishing ...
This category contains state forests in the U.S. state of New York, managed by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. Four different types of land holding are included: reforestation areas, multiple-use areas, unique areas, and nature and historic preserves.
To manage the land, the state had created a Forest Commission, making New York second only to California in having a state-level forestry agency. Most of its members were either openly or covertly connected to timber interests, however, and routinely approved dodges around the legislation to make sure logging would continue. In 1893 the ...
The Vanderwhacker Mountain Wild Forest is a 91,854-acre (143.5 sq mi; 371.7 km 2) tract made up of almost two dozen non-contiguous parcels that are designated as Wild Forest by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation in the central Adirondack Park. [1]
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 States of America; it is designated as Wild Forest by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. [1]