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Section O Environmental Conservation and Recreation Information on the environment and the outdoors in New York State — including state parks and other commercial or public recreation; hunting and fishing; forest management; air, land, and water pollution; earthquakes; and mineral resources. Highlights • New York’s 215 State parks and historic sites received over 61 million visitors in the 2013–14 fiscal year. • There were 131 forest fires in New York in 2014, up from 126 in 2013. • The 273 rescue missions conducted by the Department of Environmental Conservation in 2014 consumed 5,478 staff hours, down from 13,175 in 2010, when 210 missions were conducted. • The calculated deer take in New York State for 2013 was 243,567. • There were forty-three active solid waste disposal sites in 2014, compared to 861 in 1970. • There were 888 inactive hazardous waste disposal sites as of March 31, 2014. O-1 Acreage of and Attendance at State-Owned Public O-11 Tour Participants at the State Capitol, Executive Campgrounds Within the Adirondack and Catskill Mansion, and Corning Tower: Fiscal Years 2008-09 — Forest Preserves: 2006-13 2014-15 O-2 Public Use of State-Owned Summer Recreational O-12 Seedlings Distributed from the State-Owned Saratoga Facilities Within the Adirondack and Catskill Forest Nursery, NYS: 1993-2013 Preserves, NYS: 1975-2013 O-13 Wildland Fires and Acres Burned, NYS: Selected O-3 Public Camping Facilities by Region, NYS: 2014 Years 1965-2014 O-4 Public Day Use Facilities by Operator, NYS: 2014 O-14 Forest Rangers Search and Rescue Missions, NYS: O-5 Public Day Use Facilities by State Park Region, NYS: 1965-2014 2014 O-15 Calculated Deer Take, NYS: Selected Years 1977-2013 O-6 Public and Commercial Camping Facilities by Opera- tor, NYS: 2014 O-16 Motorboat Registrations: 2011-13 Average and 2014; Snowmobile Regsitrations: 2011-14 Average and O-7 Attendance at Selected State-Owned Recreational 2014-15, NYS by County Facilities Within the Adirondack and Catskill Forest Preserves, NYS: 2005-2014 O-17 Fish Distributed by State Hatcheries by Size and Species, NYS: January 2012 — December 2013 O-8 Acreage of and Attendance at State Parks and Historic Sites, NYS by Region: Fiscal Years 2007-08 — 2013-14 O-18 Location and Intensity of Prominent Earthquakes in NYS: 1737-2015 O-9 Acreage of and Attendance at Facilities Operated by the Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preser- O-19 Active Solid Waste Disposal Sites, NYS by County: vation: Fiscal Years 2007-08 — 2013-14 Selected Years 1970-2014 O-10 Attendance at State Parks and Historic Sites by Type O-20 Registry of Inactive Hazardous Waste Disposal Sites, of Activity, NYS: Fiscal Years 2007-08 — 2013-14 Listed by Class, NYS: As of March 31, 2014 —667— Figures O-1 New York State Park Regions: 2014 O-2 Location and Intensity of Significant Earthquakes, NYS: 1990-2015 O-3 Mineral Resources, NYS: 2015 —668— TABLE O-1 Acreage of and Attendance at State-Owned Public Campgrounds Within the Adirondack and Catskill Forest Preserves 2006–13 Attendance Acres Campsite County Developed 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 New York State 6,452 1,356,449 1,484,913 1,648,730 1,633,451 1,450,003 1,317,191 1,438,208 1,358,529 Alger Island Herkimer 45 3,947 3,658 3,840 4,036 4,268 3,518 3,712 3,577 Ausable Point Clinton 30 44,360 49,633 46,314 46,963 47,375 26,669 46,155 40,206 Beaverkill Sullivan 62 6,476 9,175 9,563 7,146 8,484 6,194 7,294 6,953 Brown Tract Pond Hamilton 20 12,267 13,907 14,658 15,023 15,889 15,071 15,424 14,911 Buck Pond Hamilton 150 17,599 18,620 17,438 19,209 20,070 18,720 20,515 20,134 Caroga Lake Fulton 40 22,172 24,261 21,982 25,062 20,420 22,781 24,050 21,675 Cranberry Lake St. Lawrence 90 34,988 37,278 33,537 33,863 28,149 28,892 30,158 29,254 Crown Point Essex 39 13,295 14,597 11,763 15,199 10,873 10,613 12,307 10,915 Devil’s Tombstone Greene 24 4,829 4,656 5,888 6,211 4,712 4,758 6,416 6,775 Eagle Point Warren 16 14,029 13,457 12,816 13,615 12,670 10,202 10,972 11,217 Eighth Lake Hamilton 75 34,265 34,936 33,807 32,744 34,296 32,215 31,853 32,001 Fish Creek Pond Franklin 121 108,828 114,400 109,181 114,777 115,546 109,062 111,682 109,710 Forked Lake Hamilton 27 11,072 12,059 13,448 13,559 13,173 12,269 12,578 12,565 Fourth Lake Day Use Area Herkimer 10 611 659 523 577 524 554 489 448 Golden Beach Hamilton 40 36,561 36,260 33,541 32,588 33,356 31,238 32,144 31,313 Hearthstone Point Warren 89 52,957 54,737 54,969 55,560 59,504 53,411 53,628 48,496 Hinckley Reservoir Herkimer 2,782 10,230 9,083 7,689 8,136 5,574 9,618 8,488 6,976 Indian Lake Islands Hamilton 15 15,457 16,052 17,434 18,169 17,345 16,282 16,901 15,773 Lake Durant Hamilton 25 17,209 18,771 18,765 19,505 19,663 17,492 18,247 18,382 Lake Eaton Hamilton 30 28,849 30,001 28,964 29,071 24,939 24,019 27,126 27,036 Lake George Battleground Warren 12 20,513 22,135 20,872 21,823 18,579 20,858 21,601 21,751 Lake George Islands Warren 305 101,151 104,934 98,201 96,052 93,656 81,925 86,590 74,829 Lake Harris Essex 21 12,674 16,224 15,395 15,875 15,597 15,187 15,922 14,830 Lewey Lake Hamilton 40 31,501 38,358 38,372 39,554 38,290 36,980 38,913 38,426 Limekiln Lake Hamilton 50 35,565 35,975 34,447 37,086 37,275 36,010 35,908 34,283 Lincoln Pond Essex 160 13,095 13,786 11,074 11,713 11,535 11,436 12,544 10,823 Little Pond Delaware 46 15,390 18,068 13,968 17,080 16,625 14,331 16,668 16,824 Little Sand Point Hamilton 20 9,254 9,996 10,203 11,643 11,041 9,537 11,935 11,288 Luzerne Warren 625 31,566 33,284 31,294 31,965 32,311 28,036 28,259 25,448 Meacham Lake Franklin 100 43,314 43,064 41,698 40,388 41,873 42,333 41,651 41,737 Meadowbrook Essex 13 8,736 9,443 9,209 9,123 9,467 9,142 9,504 8,994 Moffitt Beach Hamilton 75 45,313 47,575 43,740 45,012 47,037 44,559 47,754 42,887 Mongaup Pond Sullivan 275 27,278 40,619 38,118 38,769 40,291 33,135 39,561 38,433 Nicks Lake Herkimer 200 39,309 39,770 37,186 39,748 39,132 37,286 37,748 36,411 Northampton Beach Fulton 60 59,650 87,217 82,884 101,387 108,929 86,872 105,075 84,617 North/South Lake Greene 128 100,059 124,191 121,410 117,824 126,314 104,167 120,937 119,604 Paradox Lake Essex 6 13,888 15,216 12,004 12,544 12,271 11,620 11,964 11,654 Point Comfort Hamilton 15 9,249 8,035 7,122 6,478 7,307 6,781 9,497 7,514 Poke-O-Moonshine Essex 3 2,711 2,959 2,293 a a a a a Poplar Point Hamilton 15 3,816 4,265 4,065 a 3,147 3,680 4,406 3,924 Putnam Road Essex 46 15,874 14,902 19,303 14,311 14,656 12,139 13,736 13,547 Rogers Rock Warren 186 70,526 71,378 67,360 66,737 65,875 59,944 62,141 60,026 Rollins Pond Franklin 95 61,851 63,161 61,782 63,042 63,357 63,271 68,330 64,374 Sacandaga Hamilton 25 21,811 24,172 23,378 23,649 22,126 20,176 20,813 20,544 Saranac Lake Islands Essex NA 19,056 21,845 19,466 19,301 19,790 19,664 20,620 19,976 Scaroon Manor Warren 241 X X X X X 6,220 9,258 9,135 Sharp Bridge Essex 10 2,908 3,467 2,783 2,535 2,617 3,442 4,057 3,913 Taylor Pond Clinton 10 5,869 4,775 3,799 4,956 3,911 4,873 4,863 4,138 Tioga Point Fulton 25 1,747 2,198 2,006 1,786 1,772 2,381 2,017 2,042 Wilmington Notch Essex 9 13,042 14,759 13,588 13,971 14,652 12,936 14,215 13,530 Wilson Park Ulster 125 16,740 18,497 18,158 21,877 18,194 14,549 17,997 19,536 Woodland Valley Ulster 15 12,992 14,445 16,081 16,875 15,546 10,143 13,585 15,174 NOTE: Not all campsites are included in this table. Detail will not add SOURCE: New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, to total.
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