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Recreational Rock Hounding
Designated Areas On the Nantahala and Pisgah NFs Wilderness (6) – 66,388 ac Wilderness Study Areas (5) • Ellicott Rock – 3,394 ac • Craggy Mountain – 2,380 ac • Joyce Kilmer/Slickrock- 13,562ac • Harper Creek – 7,140 ac • Linville Gorge – 11,786 • Lost Cove – 5,710 ac • Overflow – 3,200 ac • Middle Prong – 7,460 Roan Mountain • Shining Rock – 18,483 • Snowbird – 8,490 ac • Southern Nantahala – 11,703 Experimental Forests (3) Wild and Scenic Rivers (3) • Bent Creek – 5,242 ac • Chattooga • Blue Valley – 1,400 ac • Horsepasture • Coweeta – 5,482 ac • Wilson Creek National Scenic Trail (1) Balds – 3,880 ac • Appalachian Trail– 12,450 ac, approximately 240 miles Whiteside Mountain Roan Mountain – 7,900 ac Research Natural Areas (2) • Walker Cove – 53 Designated areas on the forest • Black Mountain – 1,405 include areas that are nationally Special Interest Areas (40) – 40,787 ac designated (i.e. wilderness, • Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest – 3,840 ac National Historic Area (1) roadless areas) and those that are • Santeetlah Crk Bluffs – 495 ac • Cradle of Forestry – 6,540 ac designated in the current forest • Bonas Defeat Gorge – 305 ac plan with a particular • Bryson Branch – 44 ac Inventoried Roadless Areas (33) – management that differs from • Cole Mountain-Shortoff Mountain – 56 ac 124,000 ac • Cullasaja Gorge – 1,425 ac general forest management. • Bald Mountain – 11,227 ac • Ellicott Rock-Chattooga River – 1,997 ac • Balsam Cone – 10,651 ac Designated areas are generally • Kelsey Track – 256 ac • Barkers Creek (Addition) – 974 ac unsuitable for timber production. • Piney Knob Fork – 32 ac • Bearwallow – 4,112 ac • Scaly Mountain and Catstairs – 130 ac Total designated area is • Big Indian (Addition) – 1,152 ac • Slick Rock – 11 ac • Boteler Peak – 4,215 ac approximately 268,000 acres, • Walking Fern Cove – 19 ac • Cheoah Bald – 7,802 ac ~34% of the total forest. -
ADK July-Sept
JULY-SEPTEMBER 2006 No. 0604 chepontuc — “Hard place to cross”, Iroquois reference to Glens Falls hepontuc ootnotes C THE NEWSLETTER OF THE GLENS FALLS-SARATOGAF CHAPTER OF THE ADIRONDACK MOUNTAIN CLUB Annual Dinner set for Oct. 20 ark your calendars! Please join your fellow ADKers Gathering will feature Carl Heilman on Friday, October 20, for M our annual Chapter Dinner. presenting his award-winning Weʼre moving to larger surroundings — the Queensbury Hotel in Glens Falls — to multimedia slide show, “Wild Visions” make room for everybody who wants to attend. Once again we have a fabulous program: home. He has worked in the region as an Adirondack Heritage award from the We are honored to welcome the Obi Wan a carpenter and contractor, and over the Association for the Protection of the of Adirondack Photography: Carl Heilman years also became well-known for his Adirondacks for his work with photog- who will present his award-winning mul- traditionally hand-crafted snowshoes and raphy. timedia slide Adirondack presentation his snowshoeing expertise. Each winter, as a NYS licensed guide, “Wild Visions.” Itʼs an honor to welcome Carl has been photographing the wil- he leads backcountry snowshoeing work- Carl as heʼs been busy the last few years derness landscape since 1975, working shops for the Adirondack Mountain Club publishing books, teaching master work- to capture on film both the grandeur of at the Adirondak Loj near Lake Placid, shops in photography and producing won- these special places, and the emotional and for the Appalachian Mountain Club derful photography. and spiritual connection he has felt as at Pinkham Notch, N.H. -
Paddling Adirondack NYSDEC Campgrounds
Running | Hiking | Biking | Paddling Triathlon | Skiing | Fitness | Travel FREE! JULY 22,000 CIRCULATION COVERING UPSTATE NEW YORK SINCE 2000 2013 ● KATIE PIEROTTI AND KEN ECKSTROM OF CHATHAM RETURN TO CAMP AFTER A DAY OF EXPLORATION BY CANOE. PHOTO BY RICH MACHA Visit Us on the Web! AdkSports.com Facebook.com/AdirondackSports CONTENTS Paddling Adirondack 1 Kayaking, Canoeing & Paddleboarding NYSDEC Adirondack Campgrounds NYSDEC Campgrounds 3 Running & Walking By Rich Macha Paradox of Long Distance Running lthough my preference is for more primitive wilderness Harris Lake – With its 5.3 miles of shoreline, Harris Lake 5 Around the Region News Briefs camping, sometimes it is more convenient to spend lies north of NY Route 28N in Newcomb. Motors are allowed Aa night or two at a campground with its additional on the lake and you might hear some road noise from the 5 From the Publisher & Editor creature comforts such as rest rooms and showers. Here’s a campground. The south shore has some development plus 6-11 CALENDAR OF EVENTS sampling of some NYSDEC campgrounds in the Adirondacks a very nice town beach. Fishermen would be interested in July to September Things to Do within a two and a half hour drive of Albany and what they northern pike, smallmouth, and largemouth bass. As a pad- might offer the canoeist, kayaker or standup paddleboarder. dler, what appeals to me most here is access to the nearby 13 Bicycling & Mountain Biking Advance reservations (newyorkstateparks.reserveameri- Hudson River. From the east end of the lake a shallow channel Cycling Cooperstown ca.com) are a good idea especially on weekends and around leads to the river where someone with a sense of humor has 15 Athlete Profile holidays. -
Summer-Fall 2011 Newsletter
CFA NEWS The Newsletter of the Catskill Forest Association, Inc. Volume 29, Number 3&4 - Summer/Fall 2011 INSIDE THIS ISSUE: The New paint Job! “Black-caps: A Delicious Raspberry” 2011—2nd Annual Catskill Forest Festival “Planting Your Apple Trees” “Hardwood Krummholz of the Western Catskills” - Dr. Mike Kudish Taste of the Forest - Recipe Flooring made possible by Wightman Lumber! Table of Contents: New Members…………………….…........................... 2 Executive Director’s Message....................................... 3 “Black-caps: A Delicious Raspberry” ……………….4 CFA News 2011 Catskill Forest Festival…………………..............5 Volume 29, Number 3&4 Summer 2011 “Planting Your Apple Trees”…………………......6—7 “Hardwood Krummholz of the Western Catskills” - Editor: Jim Waters Dr. Michael Kudish.........8 — 9 Published Quarterly Taste From The Forest (recipe) ..................................10 Catskill Forest Association, Inc. Website Info ................................................................ .11 43469 State Highway 28 CFA’s Tree Marking Program................................... 12 PO Box 336 Membership Application…........................ Back Cover Arkville, NY 12406-0336 (845) 586-3054 (845) 586-4071 (Fax) www.catskillforest.org [email protected] Copyright 2011 The Catskill Forest Association, Inc. Contents may not be reproduced without permission. Board of Directors: Douglas Murphy, President, Stamford Robert Bishop II, Vice President, DeLancey Gordon Stevens, Vice President, Margaretville Susan Doig, Secretary, Andes Frank Winkler, -
Catskill Trails, 9Th Edition, 2010 New York-New Jersey Trail Conference
Catskill Trails, 9th Edition, 2010 New York-New Jersey Trail Conference Index Feature Map (141N = North Lake Inset) Acra Point 141 Alder Creek 142, 144 Alder Lake 142, 144 Alder Lake Loop Trail 142, 144 Amber Lake 144 Andrus Hollow 142 Angle Creek 142 Arizona 141 Artists Rock 141N Ashland Pinnacle 147 Ashland Pinnacle State Forest 147 Ashley Falls 141, 141N Ashokan High Point 143 Ashokan High Point Trail 143 Ashokan Reservoir 143 Badman Cave 141N Baldwin Memorial Lean-To 141 Balsam Cap Mountain (3500+) 143 Balsam Lake 142, 143 Balsam Lake Mountain (3500+) 142 Balsam Lake Mountain Fire Tower 142 Balsam Lake Mountain Lean-To 142, 143 Balsam Lake Mountain Trail 142, 143 Balsam Lake Mountain Wild Forest 142, 143 Balsam Mountain 142 Balsam Mountain (3500+) 142 Bangle Hill 143 Barkaboom Mountain 142 Barkaboom Stream 144 Barlow Notch 147 Bastion Falls 141N Batavia Kill 141 Batavia Kill Lean-To 141 Batavia Kill Recreation Area 141 Batavia Kill Trail 141 Bear Hole Brook 143 Bear Kill 147 Bearpen Mountain (3500+) 145 Bearpen Mountain State Forest 145 Beaver Kill 141 Beaver Kill 142, 143, 144 Beaver Kill Range 143 p1 Beaver Kill Ridge 143 Beaver Meadow Lean-To 142 Beaver Pond 142 Beaverkill State Campground 144 Becker Hollow 141 Becker Hollow Trail 141 Beech Hill 144 Beech Mountain 144 Beech Mountain Nature Preserve 144 Beech Ridge Brook 145 Beecher Brook 142, 143 Beecher Lake 142 Beetree Hill 141 Belleayre Cross Country Ski Area 142 Belleayre Mountain 142 Belleayre Mountain Lean-To 142 Belleayre Ridge Trail 142 Belleayre Ski Center 142 Berry Brook -
2010 St. Armand Tent Roll.XLS
2010 ST ARMAND Street Street Prop 2009 2009 2010 2010 Total Swis Tax Map ID Owner # Street Location Suff Class Land AV Total AV Land AV AV Acres 154403 32.0EB-1-16.000 Aaron, Kenneth Old Military Rd 311 900 900 1000 1000 0.2 154403 32.0EB-1-17.000 Aaron, Kenneth 67 Old Military Rd 210 26500 238300 28700 238300 0.3 154403 32.0EB-1-13.000 Appell, Kenneth R 73 Old Military Rd 230 37900 259300 38300 259300 0.7 154403 32.0DC-1-6.000 Arsenault, Philip Bloomingdale Ave 311 3100 3100 3100 3100 0.8 154403 32.0DC-2-1.000 Arsenault, Philip Bloomingdale Ave 311 7500 7500 7500 7500 1.8 154403 32.0DB-1-5.000 Bickford, Jane S 137 Old Military Rd 210 37000 268900 38300 255500 0.69 154403 32.0DB-1-4.000 Bixler, Patricia S 145 Old Military Rd 210 33200 321000 33500 305000 0.5 154403 32.0EB-1-2.000 Brosseau, Richard 14 Mountain Ln 210 31000 257500 31100 246300 0.4 154403 32.0EB-2-5.000 Burger, Jack A Park Ave 311 600 600 700 700 0.2 154403 32.0EB-2-3.000 Burger, Jack A 317 Park Ave 210 41200 364600 35900 364600 0.6 154403 32.0EB-4-1.000 Casier, Audrey Mountain Ln 311 21000 21000 20600 20600 0.4 154403 32.0DB-1-1.110 Casier, Audrey Old Military Rd 311 51000 51000 54600 54600 6.3 154403 32.0EB-3-6.000 Casier, Francis 308 Park Ave 230 58400 605200 53900 605200 1.7 154403 32.029-1-21.000 Casier, Francis Palisade Park Way 311 25200 25200 25200 25200 0.36 154403 32.029-1-5.000 Casier, Francis Mount Pisgah Ln 311 61000 61000 60900 60900 1.17 154403 32.029-1-27.000 Casier, Francis Panorama Dr 311 98500 98500 99900 99900 6.1 154403 32.029-1-8.000 Casier, Francis -
Pisgah District Trails
PISGAH RANGER DISTRICT TRAILS Table of Contents: Trail Name Length Rating Trail Use Page # Andy Cove Nature Trail 0.7mi Easy Hiking 3 Art Loeb Spur 0.6mi Difficult Hiking 4 Art Loeb Trail–Section 1 12.3mi Difficult Hiking 5 Art Loeb Trail-Section 2 7.2mi Difficult Hiking 6 Art Loeb Trail-Section 3 6.8mi Difficult Hiking 7 Art Loeb Trail-Section 4 3.8mi Difficult Hiking 8 Avery Creek 3.2mi Medium Hiking/Biking 9 Bad Fork 2.0mi Difficult Hiking 10 Bennett Gap 2.9mi Medium Hiking/Biking(seasonal) 11 Big Creek 4.9mi Difficult Hiking/Sections open to bikes& horses 12 Biltmore Campus 0.9mi Easy Hiking/ wheelchair accessible 13 Black Mountain 9.8mi Difficult Hiking/Biking 14 Boyd Branch 0.7mi Easy Hiking/Biking 15 Bradley Creek 5.1mi Medium Hiking/Biking/Horses 16 Buck Spring 6.2mi Medium Hiking 17 Buckeye Gap 3.1mi Difficult Hiking 18 Buckhorn Gap 5.2mi Medium Hiking/Biking/Horses 19 Buckwheat Knob 1.5mi Medium Hiking/Biking 20 Butter Gap 3.4mi Medium Hiking/Biking 21 Caney Bottom 4.6mi Medium Hiking/Sections open to biking 22 Case Camp Ridge 1.7mi Difficult Hiking 23 Cat Gap Bypass 0.4mi Easy Hiking 24 Cat Gap Loop 4.4mi Medium Hiking/Sections open to biking(seasonal) 25 Chestnut Cove 0.2mi Medium Hiking 26 Clawhammer Cove 1.5mi Medium Hiking 27 Club Gap 0.8mi Medium Hiking/Biking 28 Cold Mountain 1.4mi Difficult Hiking 29 Coontree Loop 3.7mi Medium Hiking/Sections open to biking(seasonal) 30 Courthouse Falls 0.3mi Easy Hiking 31 Cove Creek 0.7mi Easy Hiking/Biking 32 Daniel Ridge Loop 4.0mi Medium Hiking/Biking 33 Deer Lake Lodge 1.4mi Medium -
Mountains and Meadowlands Along the Blue Ridge Parkway
Mountains and Meadowlands Mountains and Meadowlands Along the Blue Ridge Parkway Text and photos by William A. Bake Office of Publications National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior Washington, D.C. 1975 A Prologue to the Past 1 The Blue Ridge Parkway Rolling into the distance like "the great distance like breakers and swells Ocean itself," the Blue Ridge dips into a means mountains—the highest deep cove at Wildcat Rocks in Doughton frozen in time. of them mantled with trees and Park (Milepost 240), then swells toward the horizon. Their time, in fact, began long wildflowers uniquely their own. ago, even in geologic terms. The It also means meadows—some Blue Ridge Mountains—indeed, for farming, others that beckon all the Appalachians—are an visitors to wander and explore. cient mountains. Rounded in This booklet introduces both form and subdued in height, the mood and substance of the they are nevertheless a rugged Parkway's highest peaks and lot whose wrinkles and crannies, sweeping meadowlands. Though Indian pipe, a small but conspicuous saphrophyte, pushes past the clover-like cliffs and gorges are often hid designed to be read quickly, it leaves of wood sorrel. den from easy view. remains to be re-examined when ever mountains and meadow- Like so many of the Earth's lands return to mind or presence. mountains, the Appalachians were created in a very complex An "Ocean of Woods swelled manner. It is sufficient to say, and depressed with a waving rather than going through the Surface like that of the great complexities, that what remains Ocean itself wrote an early is a range of mountains which visitor as he sought a way to begins in the Canadian maritime describe the Blue Ridge Moun provinces near the Atlantic and tains. -
T Ravel Management
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Wilmington Wild Forest UMP Amendment – August 2016 I
WILMINGTON WILD FOREST Amendment to the 2005 Wilmington Wild Forest Unit Management Plan NYS DEC, REGION, 5, DIVISION OF LANDS AND FORESTS PO Box 296, Ray Brook, NY 12977 P: (518) 897-1291 | F: (518) 897-1370 | [email protected] www.dec.ny.gov August 2016 This page intentionally left blank OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER New York State Department of Environmental Conservation 625 Broadway, 14th Floor, Albany, New York 12233-1010 P: (518) 402-8545 I F: (518) 402-8541 www.dec.ny.gov M E M O R A N D U M TO: The Record FROM: Basil Seggos SUBJECT: Wilmington Wild Forest The Amendment to the 2005 Wilmington Wild Forest Unit Management Plan has been completed. The Adirondack Park Agency has found the Amendment to be in conformance with the Adirondack Park State Land Master Plan. The Amendment is consistent with Environmental Conservation Law, and Department Rules, Regulations and Policies and is hereby approved and adopted. ______________________________________________ Basil Seggos Commissioner New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Date: __August 9, 2016____________________________ WYORK Department of 1JR~~N1rv Environmental Conservation This page intentionally left blank wvoRK Adirondack JEOF ORJUNIJY. Park Agency LEILANI CRAFTS ULRICH TERRY MARTINO Chairwoman Executive Director RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE ADIRONDACK PARK AGENCY WITH RESPECT TO THE 2016 WILMINGTON WILD FOREST UNIT MANAGEMENT PLAN AMENDMENT July 14, 2016 WHEREAS, Section 816 of the Adirondack Park Agency Act directs the Department of Environmental Conservation (Department) -
Annual Dinner Must Be Received By
SEPTEMBER-NOVEMBER 2007 No. 0705 chepontuc — “Hard place to cross”, Iroquois reference to Glens Falls hepontuc ootnotes C T H E N E W S L E tt E R O F T H E G L E N S F ALLS- S ARAFT O G A C H A P T E R O F T H E A DIRO N DA C K M O U nt AI N C L U B GLENS FALLS-SARATOGA CHAPTER ADIRONDACK MOUNTAIN CLUB Registrations Annual Dinner must be received by Friday, October Friday, October 12, 2007 5 The Queensbury Hotel, 88 Ridge St., Glens Falls, NY Cash Bar 5:30 p.m. • Dinner 7:00 p.m. Featuring Adirondack singer/ songwriter Dan Berggren oin fellow friends of wild places for a warm and friendly evening in the finest Adirondack tradition. We are hon- ored to welcome fellow ADKer Dan Berggren, one of the JAdirondack’s great masters of original music. Dan will be doing songs and stories about the people and places that make the Adirondacks what they are — music that’s old and new. While “Jamcrackers” is the brand new trio album (Dan Duggan, Peggy Lynn and Dan Berggren’s self-titled CD), “Fresh Territory” is Berggren’s latest. Also, this past year he produced an album for the Association for the Protection of the Adirondacks. “Shepherd of the Wilderness” is a tribute to Paul Schafer and is available only through the Association. In 1992 the New York State Outdoor Education Association presented Dan with its Art and Literary Award. -
FOR JUST $4.95, the BASE APP INCLUDES ALL the HIKING CENTRAL and HIKING HIGH PEAKS REGION TRAILS BELOW, for a Total of 64 Trails – All Without Reception
Trails and Waterways within our Adirondack Trails phone app – no reception needed once downloaded. Visit http://adktrailmap.com/ for latest information, app store links and complete app descriptions and screenshots. Apps available for iPhones and Android phones. You can preview all these trails and waterways in the interactive map at http://adktrailmap.com/ FOR JUST $4.95, THE BASE APP INCLUDES ALL THE HIKING CENTRAL AND HIKING HIGH PEAKS REGION TRAILS BELOW, for a total of 64 trails – all without reception. Hiking Central Adirondack Region Bald Mountain John Mack Pond Rocky Mountain Beaver Lake Limekiln Nature Trail Sargent Ponds Black Bear Mountain Lost Ponds Sawyer Mountain Blue Mountain Middle Settlement Lake Seventh Lake Trail Bug Lake Mitchell Ponds Snowy Mountain Buttermilk Falls Moss Lake South Branch Trail Cascade Lake Nicks Lake Loop Sucker Brook Bay Cascade and Stephens Ponds Norridgewock Trail Tirrell Pond Castle Rock Northville-Placid Trail North Uncas Black Bear Mountain Chimney Mountain Northville-Placid Trail South Vista Trail Fern Mt Perimeter Trail Owls Head West Mountain Frederica Mountain Pigeon Lake Wilderness Loop West, Safford & Goose Ponds Great Camp Sagamore Lake Puffer Pond Trail Hiking High Peaks Region Algonquin Peak Mt. Van Hoevenberg from south Ampersand Mountain Haystack Mountain Raquette Falls Avalanche Lake Hurricane Mountain Rocky Falls Bald Peak Blueberry Cobbles John Brown Farm Round Mountain Loop Baxter Mountain McKenzie Mountain Scarface Mountain Blueberry Mountain Mount Baker Snow Mountain Brewster