Public Lands Overview
500 year floods can repeat themselves more then you would think
People often think it's impossible that a location can get hit by multiple 500 year floods in a single decade. But it's actually more common than you think.
The odds of two 500 year flood hitting a location twice in a decade is 1 in 5,101. Long odds but not impossible by any stretch of the imagination. 500 year floods are a lot more common than people realize. Indeed the odds of a single 500 year flood in a decade are 1 in 51.
It is actually more likely a home will get hit by four 500 year floods in a decade then the home owner will strike it rich by buying a power ball ticket.
R is wonderful for statistical analysis.
Named Waterbodies In The Catskill Park
The Catskill Park is relatively devoid of natural lakes and ponds, most are man made reservoirs of relatively small size. The New York City reservoirs are the big water features of the park but there are a handful of other ponds and lakes around.
Data Source: National Hydrological Dataset, joined against the Catskill Park Boundaries and queried for named lakes in GNIS.
NYC Catskill – Delaware Reservior Basins
This interactive map shows the NYC Catskill - Delaware Reservior Basins as gathered from the NHDPlus service.
Manitou – Wikipedia
Manitou (/Λm?nΙͺtuΛ/), akin to the Iroquois orenda, is the spiritual and fundamental life force among Algonquian groups in the Native American theology. It is omnipresent and manifests everywhere: organisms, the environment, events, etc. Aashaa monetoo means "good spirit", while otshee monetoo means "bad spirit". When the world was created, the Great Spirit, Aasha Monetoo, gave the land to the indigenous peoples, the Shawnee in particular.
White Man Mountain
Headwaters of West Branch of Delaware River, north of Hubbells Corners.
Taken on Saturday September 11, 2021 at Catskill Mountains.Tower Mountain Gravel Mine in Ashland
Looking down through Sutton Hollow in the Northern Catskills.
Taken on Saturday August 5, 2023 at Catskill Mountains.