State Land Acreage By Classification

All figures are in acres except where noted. Table updated April 2011. Reprinted from the DEC Website.

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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%

Blue Ridge and Blue Mountain

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.

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