History, Natural History & the Arts
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), sometimes called Roosevelt’s Tree Army, was a public works program first developed under NYS Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt and brought into the New Deal when Roosevelt became President.
This program offered paid opportunities for young men during the Great Depression to sow the seeds of environmental conservation and civil development projects throughout the United States.
[Read more…] about Civilian Conservation Corps in the Tug Hill Region
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has announced that it is now accepting public comments on the draft Unit Management Plan (UMP) for Tug Hill East through December 15th.
The draft UMP covers 22,886 acres of land in seven State Forests, one unique area, and 13 detached Forest Preserve parcels in the Lewis County towns of Lewis, Martinsburg, Osceola, Turin, and West Turin, the Oneida County town of Ava, and the Oswego County town of Redfield. [Read more…] about Comments Sought On Tug Hill East Management Plan
In 2015, DEC launched the Young Forest Initiative. The initiative uses small clear-cuts “to increase young forest habitat” for wildlife which trappers and hunters target.
One of the many properties on which DEC employs this management strategy is Tug Hill Wildlife Management Area (WMA), a 5,110-acre property located on the Tug Hill Plateau in the town of Montague, Lewis County. [Read more…] about State Logging On Tug Hill Hopes To Improve Hunting
Over the past decade, the number of fishers taken by trappers has declined in the Central Adirondacks, and since the harvest is often proportional to abundance, there is a believed to be a population decline in this area as well. [Read more…] about Study Seeks To Answer Questions About Fisher Declines
This week on “The Historians” podcast, Lynn Herzig describes life in a hamlet on New York’s Tug Hill Plateau over fifty years ago. Herzig is author of Where’d you go? Out! What’d you do? Nothing! Unique memories of growing up in Beaver Falls, NY during the 1950s.
Listen to the podcast here. [Read more…] about Lynn Herzig: Beaver Falls in the 1950s