Adirondack Park

IUCN Category IV - Habitat-/Species Management Area

The Long Pond

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Adirondack Park in upstate New York with around 24,000 km protected area of ​​the continental United States and by far the largest of the National Historic Landmarks ² the largest. The Adirondack Park is together more than Yellowstone, Everglades, Grand Canyon and Glacier National Park and covers an area that is roughly equivalent to that of the State of Vermont. With the Mount Marcy is located on 1,629 m in the park also the highest point in New York.

The Park

Adirondack is forested in places, dense and with a total of about 3,000 lakes and 48,000 kilometers rivers and streams full of water. A system of approximately 3200 km hiking trails meanders through large parts of the park. An outstanding points campgrounds were created, which were also fire can be made ​​.

The boundary line of the park is usually referred to as Blue Line (because blue ink with which he was listed on old maps ) and encloses the entire Adirondack Mountains plus environment. For livestock of the park includes more than 50 species of mammals, such as beaver and moose, but also the black bear and many birds, including the ruby-throated hummingbird. Parts of the park are used by the timber industry.

The idea of ​​creating a protected park in the area, was first raised in 1870 by the surveyor Verplanck Colvin. Drive and inspiration based proponents of the park henceforth primarily from considerations of George Perkins Marsh, who had already warned ten years earlier before Entwaldungsprozessen that even North America could change in a way, as it had already happened in parts of Europe. A conservation philosophy as a response to precisely this fear is the fundamental idea behind the park and its further development until today. The official foundation dates back to the year 1892.

Adirondack is under the administration of the State of New York, but is not a state park in the true sense. It is supervised by the Ministry of the Environment of New York; for planning and long-term management decisions, the Adirondack Park Agency was established in 1971.

Wilderness Areas

Within the Adirondack Park are numerous Wilderness Areas, where the operation of motorized vehicles is prohibited; human activities are limited to hiking, camping, hunting, fishing and canoeing.

  • Blue Ridge Wilderness Area - 185.09 km ²
  • Dix Mountain Wilderness Area - 182.95 km ²
  • Five Ponds Wilderness Area - 447.44 km ²
  • Giant Mountain Wilderness Area - 92.14 km ²
  • Ha -De- Ron - Dah Wilderness Area - 107.36 km ²
  • High Peaks Wilderness Area - 779.77 km ²
  • Hoffman Notch Wilderness Area - 146.62 km ²
  • Jay Mountain Wilderness Area - 28.7 km ²
  • McKenzie Mountain Wilderness Area - 152.23 km ²
  • Pepperbox Wilderness Area - 91.30 km ²
  • Pharaoh Lake Wilderness Area - 185.68 km ²
  • Pigeon Lake Wilderness Area - 202.8 km ²
  • Round Lake Wilderness Area - 44.5 km ²
  • Sentinel Range Wilderness Area - 94.10 km ²
  • Siamese Ponds Wilderness Area - 455.37 km ²
  • Silver Lake Wilderness Area - 426.01 km ²
  • West Canada Lake Wilderness Area - 634.12 km ²
  • William C. Whitney Wilderness Area - 83.0 km ²

The 77 km ² Saint Regis Canoe Area is not officially classified as Wilderness Area, for they shall nevertheless apply the same access conditions.

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