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	What is the New York State Forest Preserve?
		The biological and economic value of the forest preserve is rooted in the quality of its natural resources—clean water, land and air—and the inestimable beauty of the landscape.
		The Catskill Forest Preserve is an invaluable asset to the quality of life and the economic vitality of the Catskill region.
		In order to maximize this asset, the forest preserve must be managed and maintained with vision that balances the needs of future generations for recreational access with the preservation of the forest preserve's ecological and physical infrastructure.
	www.geocities.com /sundowncountryretreat/nysforestpreserve.htm (2624 words)

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		New York City was the first capital of the United States and was the site of the inauguration of George Washington as President on April 30, 1789.
		New York was the first state to (1) preserve an historic site (Washington's Headquarters at Newburgh); (2) establish a railroad (see Albany); (3) establish a state park (Niagara Reservation); and (4) declare land "forever wild" (the Adirondack and Catskill forest preserves) in the State Constitution.
		North Elba, New York, is the home and grave of abolitionist John Brown whose actions at Harper's Ferry are generally thought to have been the final trigger for the Civil War.
	www.ny-links.com (1969 words)

	FC-New York - Spotlight On - Association for the Protection of the Adirondacks
		The Association’s vision is to be the preeminent guardian of the “Forever Wild” provision of the New York State Constitution by advocating the timeless values of wilderness preservation for future generations and becoming the leading trainer and educator of New York State wilderness stewards.
		Forest Preserve Conference and Publication Series unites the varied interests of numerous constituencies for the Forest Preserve through background research, issue identification and dialogue, sharing and incubation of ideas that can grow into conservation and education activity that benefits the Adirondack and Catskill Parks.
		Center for the Forest Preserve, set to open in late 2003, will feature activities focused on educating and engaging youth, community and leadership toward literacy and advocacy about nature and the Adirondack and Catskill Parks for the purpose of protection and stewardship of the New York State Forest Preserve.
	fdncenter.org /newyork/spotlight/ny_spotlight_022103.html (1356 words)

	Conservation Ecology: Conservation Policy in Time and Space: Lessons from Divergent Approaches to Salvage Logging on ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		New York conservation groups were quick to praise the decision, while parties that had pressed for salvage allowed the issue to die.
		New York's farmers had begun to notice a "rural decline," expressing concern over water pollution due to erosion and contamination by livestock, whereas trappers worried about the demise of beaver in northeastern North America (Whipple 1935, Graham 1978, Keller 1980).
		The 1885 Forest Preserve Law, which set the stage for founding the Adirondack Park in 1892, was aimed at protecting supplies of Adirondack fresh water, in part to maintain navigable flows in rivers and canals to the south.
	sunsite.wits.ac.za /eco/vol3/iss1/art3 (9093 words)

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		New York City's west-of-Hudson watershed is the source of 90 percent of the city's drinking water supply.
		New York's Adirondack and Catskill Forest Preserves are protected by Article 14, §1, of the constitution from encroachment through sale, lease or gift, and guaranteed to be "Forever Wild." Public access to these lands for recreation is guaranteed by Environmental Conservation Law section 9-0301(1).
		Region 3, headquartered in New Paltz, is responsible for forest preserve lands in Ulster and Sullivan Counties; Region 4, with offices in Schenectady and Stamford, manages lands in Greene and Delaware Counties.
	www.adk-nyc.org /Catskills/access/2.htm (4269 words)

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		The Adirondack Park was created in 1892 by the State of New York amid concerns for the water and timber resources of the region.
		The boundary of the Park encompasses approximately 6 million acres, nearly half of which belongs to all the people of New York State and is constitutionally protected to remain “forever wild” forest preserve.
		New York's highest waterfall is the 215 foot Taughannock.
	www.newyork-cigarettes.com (704 words)

	Local Hiking Information / Catskill Forest Preserve
		Prior to its creation, most of the primeval forests were devastated in the mid-1800s by the leather tanning industry, which required an exhaustive supply of hemlock bark, and then by the successive harvesting of the area’s hardwood forests for a growing demand for furniture and other wood products.
		Balsam Lake Mountain Wild Forest is at the head of the Beaverkill Valley, an area famous as the cradle of fly fishing in America.
		The Willowemoc Wild Forest is eighteen miles north of Liberty and nine miles northeast of Livingston Manor, the closest village with amenities.
	www.catskillhikes.com /catforst.html (4667 words)

	New York State Parks
		New Windsor, NY A wildlife management area of 5,264 acres with semi-paved lanes for walking, running, mountain biking, horseback riding, and bird watching.
		This WMA is located in southeastern New York State approximately 60 miles north of New York City, west of NYS Route 22 and north of Foggintown Road.
		This WMA is located 65 miles northeast of New York City, south of NYS Route 17 and east of NYS Route 209 with major access points from Haven and South Roads.
	www.bearsystems.com /StateParks/StateParks.htm (2122 words)

	Adirondack Forest Preserve
		The Adirondack Forest Preserve is the land owned by the State of New York in the Adirondack Park.
		The clause reads, “The lands of the state, now owned or hereafter acquired, constituting the forest preserve as now fixed by law, shall be forever kept as wild forest lands.
		The 2.6 million acre Forest Preserve is divided into different classifications, by Adirondack State Land Master Plan (ASLMP) based on their characteristics and capacity to withstand use.
	www.adirondackcouncil.org /forestpreserveinfo2.html (437 words)

	Catskill Forest Preserve, New York
		The Preserve is almost 300,000 acres in the Catskill Moutains.
		The highest point is Slide Mountain, reaching a height of 4,180 feet.
		Three fishing streams - Beaver Kill, Neversink and Willowemoc - are found within the preserve.
	www.planetware.com /catskill/catskill-forest-preserve-us-ny-cfp.htm (92 words)

	New York Old Growth Forest Association
		While the preserve is open to the public, it is unique in that it is one of the few completely wild and undeveloped areas of the great eastern woods still remaining in the Capital Region.
		Forests are classified as old-growth generally when at least six large trees per acre are found to bed over 150 years old.
		According to the New York Champion Tree Project, old-growth forests are the best, most efficient systems to remove carbon from the atmosphere in the ongoing effort to reduce global climate change from greenhouse gases.
	www.championtrees.org /oldgrowth/articles/SchenectadyGazette11118.htm (1347 words)

	Results of Forest Preserve Management Conference - 1999 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Forest Ranger Jim Giglinto and Adirondack Mountain Club Education Director Anne Green introduced principles of "Leave No Trace"; (LNT) to the conference, adding that these principles of ethical and environmentally responsible outdoor behavior are part of a national curriculum now officially embraced by New York State.
		Forest Rangers, chapters of the Adirondack Mountain Club and others are being asked to spread the LNT educational program throughout the state.
		Forest Ranger Captain Curth wondered how conservation easements tailored to meet the needs of each particular landowner could be comprehended by DEC staff in the field, much less by the public.
	www.protectadks.org /fallconf.html (1631 words)

	New York State Constitution - Article XIV
		The lands of the state, now owned or hereafter acquired, constituting the forest preserve as now fixed by law, shall be forever kept as wild forest lands.
		Forest and wild life conservation are hereby declared to be policies of the state.
		A violation of any of the provisions of this article may be restrained at the suit of the people or, with the consent of the supreme court in appellate division, on notice to the attorney-general at the suit of any citizen.
	www.adirondack-park.net /history/article14-text.html (394 words)

	Preliminary Guide To Environmental Sources - Historical Records Repositories in New York State (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Forest Preserve historical materials compiled by Norman J. Van Valkenburgh (former DEC Director of Lands and Forests) and files on Forest Ranger History from Ranger Louis Curth.
		Correspondence and other materials relating to forest conservation in the Adirondacks; included is information concerning the acquisition of land by the State of New York and the early role of the Adirondack Mountain Club.
		Newsletters, news releases, pamphlets, reports of the committee and other groups, hearings, slides and text of slide lecture, correspondence, reprints, articles and clippings documenting the group's successful effort to halt the construction of a nuclear power plant on Cayuga Lake by the New York State Electric and Gas Corporation (NYSEG).
	www.archives.nysed.gov /a/researchroom/rr_env_guide_8.shtml (7757 words)

	The Nature Conservancy - More than 100,000 Acres of Forest Protected in New York's Adirondacks
		Also preserved are 220 miles of permanent and seasonal streams, some of which harbor native brook trout and other aquatic species, and 20 lakes and ponds with 16 miles of undeveloped shoreline.
		This 2,900-acre tract, with one mile of undeveloped shoreline, adjoins 1,091 acres of Forest Preserve, keeping the natural splendor of the southern section of Chazy Lake and its associated wetlands intact for paddlers and boaters to enjoy.
		At 6-million-acres, New York's Adirondiacks are larger than Yellowstone, Yosemite, Grand Canyon, and Olympic National Parks combined, harboring 2,800 lakes and ponds and 30,000 miles of rivers and streams.
	www.nature.org /success/art14574.html (773 words)

	New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
		The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has a new website, now available at www.dec.ny.gov.
		The webpages and documents from this original site have been moved to this new site.
		You will be automatically redirected to the new site in 10 seconds.
	www.dec.state.ny.us /website/do/or2top.htm (73 words)

	Wildernet - Catskill Forest Preserve
		Old growth hemlock and northern hardwood forests on steep mountainsides and remote valleys were so inaccessible, they survived the logging, tanbarking and charcoal industries of the past 300 years.
		The forest preserve has thousands of acres of forests with meadows, remnants of old farmsteads, lakes, rivers, springs, waterfalls, cliffs, fire towers, bears, rattlesnakes and other wildlife, rare plants and animals.
		The trails vary in length from a half mile to a 94-mile section of the Long Path connecting New York City's George Washington Bridge with East Windham (Greene Co.) in the northern Catskills.
	www.wildernet.com /pages/area.cfm?areaid=NYCFP&cu_id=1 (737 words)

	Adirondack Mountains Forest Preserve
		The AMFP is the largest wilderness preserve in the contiguous United States.
		The remaining forty-five percent of the park is publicly owned, protected as Forever Wild by the New York State Constitution for the past 100 years.
		In the 21st century and beyond, the preserve must continue to leave vast areas of undisturbed, open space as a Sanctuary for native plants and animal species.
	www.mro.org /zesi/adironpark (328 words)

	A Report on a Proposed Adirondack Mountains National Park (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		On September 19, 1968 New York State Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller announced the creation of a Temporary Study commission to undertake an in-depth review of problems affecting the Adirondack Park and to develop alternatives for the future protection of this area.
		State-owned lands in the Adirondacks largely comprise the New York State Forest Preserve established in 1885 as a consequence of rising conservation sentiment against wasteful and destructive logging practices and associated threats to the state's water supply.
		The New York State conservation Department, given the charge to study and respond to the proposal, contrasted state policies with those of Yosemite, Yellowstone and the Grand Tetons.
	www.protectadks.org /parkpro2.html (2739 words)

	The Forest Preserve of NYS - Purple Mountain Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		They shall not be leased, sold or exchanged, or be taken by any corporation, public or private, nor shall the timber thereon be sold, removed or destroyed.' The people of the State of New York approved and, by their vote.
		The New York State Forest Preserve and the Adirondack and Catskill Parks are subjects often misunderstood by New Yorkers.
		Norman Van Valkenbugh, a land surveyor and 30-year veteran of the NYSDEC, has published another non-fiction book with Purple Mountain Press: Old Stone Walls: Catskill Land and Lore and four mysteries with regional themes: Murder in the Catskills, Mayhem in the Catskills, Mischief in the Catskills and Murder in the Shawangunks.
	www.catskill.net /~purple/forpresv.htm (156 words)

	A Timeline of Efforts to Protect the Adirondack and Catskill Forest Preserve - The Association for the Protection of ...
		Before legal action was instituted, the agency's Commissioner amended the objectionable provision to eliminate the right to use snowmobiles across country, limiting them to signed roads and trails designated for their use.
		Resulting dialogue with the New York State Department of Transportation Commissioner established the state's commitment to preserve scenic amenities along Adirondack roadways.
		A campaign continues for funding to preserve the Dutch style fieldstone house with its Adirondack Room, and to construct additional space for office, library and meetings needs.
	www.protectadks.org /about/history/timeline.html (1493 words)

	AARCH Santanoni Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The creation of the Forest Preserve in 1885 was one of the earliest acts of large-scale public land protection in the nation, hence it was one of the first chapters in the history of conservation in the United States.
		And with the beauty of its mountains, forests, lakes, and streams, the Forest Preserve is a recreational area much cherished by all New Yorkers.
		When the 12,900 acre Santanoni Preserve was acquired by New York State in 1972, it became part of the Forest Preserve.
	www.aarch.org /html/santanoni.html (254 words)

	New York Old Growth Forest Association
		Scientists estimate that less than one percent of New York's forest, or about 400,000 acres, is old-growth, the definition of which is a subject of debate.
		Many of the old-growth stands in New York are in the Adirondacks and Catskills, and on private land, where the force field of laws that protects rare wildlife doesn't pertain to plants.
		The focus of the eastern side of New York will be the smaller patches of ancient wood in suburban areas that have yet to be discovered.
	www.championtrees.org /oldgrowth/articles/AlbanyTimesUnion11202.htm (724 words)

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