State Land Acreage By Classification
All figures are in acres except where noted. Table updated April 2011. Reprinted from the DEC Website.
| Land Classification | Region 1 |
Region 2 |
Region 3 |
Region 4 |
Region 5 |
Region 6 |
Region 7 |
Region 8 |
Region 9 |
Catskill Park Total |
Adirondack Park Total |
State Total |
Percent of Total State Land and Conservation Easements |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| State Forest | 16,056 | 758 | 31,763 | 102,248 | 58,354 | 221,924 | 200,419 | 55,581 | 99,121 | – | 16,264 ** | 786,224 | 17% | |
| Forest Preserve |
Wilderness | – | – | 89,352 | 53,482 | 954,601 | 206,151 | – | – | – | 142,834 | 1,160,752 | 1,303,586 | 28% |
| Wild Forest | – | – | 75,588 | 60,368 | 938,664 ** | 367,123 | – | – | – | 135,956 | 1,305,787 | 1,441,743 | 31% | |
| Primitive | – | – | – | – | 31,309 | 15,704 | – | – | – | – | 47,013 | 47,013 | 1% | |
| Primitive Bicycle Corridor |
– | – | 15 | 283 | – | – | – | – | – | 298 | – | 298 | 0.006% | |
| Canoe | – | – | – | – | 18,989 | – | – | – | – | – | 18,989 | 18,989 | 0.4% | |
| Intensive Use | – | – | 4,104 | 1,542 | 21,591 | 1,828 | – | – | – | 5,646 | 23,419 | 29,065 | 0.6% | |
| Administrative | – | – | 392 | 0 *** | 384 | 7 | – | – | – | 392 | 391 | 783 | 0.02% | |
| Historic | – | – | – | – | 531 | – | – | – | – | – | 531 | 531 | 0.01% | |
| Pending Classification |
– | – | – | – | 259 | 111 | – | – | – | – | 370 | 370 | 0.007% | |
| Under Water* (Unclassified) |
– | – | – | – | 17,395 | 6,534 | – | – | – | – | 23,929 | 23,929 | 0.5% | |
| Detached Parcel |
– | – | 1,382 | 4,141 | 1,441 | 4,318 | – | – | – | – | – | 11,282 | 0.2% | |
| Total Forest Preserve | – | – | 170,833 | 119,816 | 2,001,313 | 601,776 | – | – | – | 285,126 | 2,597,267 | 2,893,738 | 61% | |
| Wildlife Management Area | 6,007 | – | 12,021 | 18,518 | 6,524 ** | 46,371 | 49,562 | 41,462 | 17,178 | 407 *** | 2,755 ** | 197,643 | 4% | |
| Conservation Easement | 108 | 21 | 7,264 | 7,286 | 488,463 | 336,783 | 436 | – | 10 | 9,437 | 769,579 | 840,371 | 18% | |
| TOTALS: | 22,171 | 779 | 221,881 | 247,868 | 2,554,654 | 1,206,854 | 250,417 | 97,043 | 116,309 | 294,970 | 3,385,865 | 4,717,976 | 100% | |
Notes from the DEC.
* Certain lake beds are considered Forest Preserve, despite some level of private ownership adjacent to the lakes. These underwater lands are not classified. For the purposes of this table, however, lakes and ponds that are completely surrounded by Forest Preserve have been classified the same as the adjacent land.
** Where State Forests and Wildlife Management Areas exist within the Adirondack Park, the Adirondack Park State Land Master Plan also classifies these lands as Wild Forest. However, since these lands are not Forest Preserve, State Forest and Wildlife Management Area acreages within the Adirondack Park were NOT included in the Wild Forest category.
*** Where Wildlife Management Areas exist within the Catskill Park, the Catskill Park State Land Master Plan also classifies these lands as Administrative. For calculation purposes in this table, however, Wildlife Management Area acreage within the Catskill Park was NOT also included in the Administrative category.