Thursday, June 26th, 2025
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“Forever kept as wild forest lands:”A Story Behind the Making of the Adirondack Forest Preserve Post 2 Post 1 Post 3 Post 4 “New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Massachusetts & Connecticut.”
In January 1884 the New York State Senate received a report on state lands from a special committee on state lands in the Adirondack region. According to the report, between 1873 and 1883 New York State went from owning 38,854 acres of land to 750,616 acres of land, almost entirely on the Adirondack Plateau. The state had acquired this land, in some ways, unintentionally, through unpaid taxes. (Logging companies were harvesting the trees, not paying their taxes, and then – after five or ten years – letting the state acquire their land to cover the unpaid taxes.) The state now […]
During the second half of the nineteenth century, there was a growing conservation movement in North America; however, nature was still considered to be multi-use. Nature could be beautiful in value through tourism and valuable in natural resources like timber, land for cultivation, animals to be hunted, and more. The belief was that nature should be used for the benefit of people, so that even protecting land was “reserving nature for the people’s use.” Yellowstone National Park, for example, was created by the US Congress in 1872 with these values and motivations in mind. By protecting the natural and exotic […]
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