Burned Over Section
This photo allows one to compare the non-burned section (on the left) to the burned section on the right.
Sunday September 29, 2019 — Louise Kerr Wildlife Management Area — Louise E. Keir Wildlife Management Area 🗺
Improved Road For Controlled Burns
It's easier to find your way up Blodgett Hill after they improved the road and the blazing up the trail from the other way.
Sunday September 29, 2019 — Louise Kerr Wildlife Management Area — Louise E. Keir Wildlife Management Area 🗺
Louise E Keir
Louise E Keir Wildlife Managment Area aka Blodgett Hill is definitely worth checking out.
Not only do they have a few acres of the Pitch Pine – Scrub Oak that they burned over a few years back, a few acres of the hill are fire-managed hardwood forest that almost has the feel of the Laurel Highlands of Pennsylvania or maybe even Allegheny National Forest.
There is a gated, steep road up one side of the hill now and the other pull-off area there is a blue-blazed DEC trail that makes it easy to follow.
Fire suppressed
DEC to Conduct Controlled Burns at Coeymans Wildlife Area – NYS Dept. of Environmental Conservation
Blodgett Hill, the only known public lands that have Pitch Pine-Scrub Oak on them in Albany County outside of the Pine Bush will undergo a controlled burn this spring to rehabilitate this over-grown fire suppressed ecosystem this spring!
This should be great both for the turkey population and wildlife more generally in the area, and enhance views from Blodgett Hill.