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Tug Hill Plateau

Bridge Completes New Oswego County Little Sandy Creek Trail

December 30, 2022 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Little Sandy Creek Bridge (3)The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has announced the completion of the Little Sandy Creek Bridge, a 110-foot structure that extends over Little Sandy Creek in the Winona State Forest.

The newly constructed bridge, located in the town of Boylston, Oswego County, is part of the new one-mile Little Sandy Creek Trail, completed this fall in partnership with the Winona Forest Recreation Association (WFRA). [Read more…] about Bridge Completes New Oswego County Little Sandy Creek Trail

Filed Under: Nature, Recreation, Western NY Tagged With: bicycling, Boylston, DEC, hiking, Oswego County, snowmobiling, Tug Hill Plateau, Winona State Forest

Civilian Conservation Corps in the Tug Hill Region

May 19, 2022 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Built To Last The Legacy of the Civilian Conservation Corps GraphicThe 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

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Events, History, Western NY Tagged With: Oneida County History Center, Tug Hill Plateau

Comments Sought On Tug Hill East Management Plan

November 4, 2021 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

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

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Nature, Recreation, Western NY Tagged With: camping, DEC, fishing, hiking, hunting, Lewis County, Oneida County, Oswego County, snowmobiling, Tug Hill Plateau

State Logging On Tug Hill Hopes To Improve Hunting

November 12, 2020 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Arial photo of patch cuts at Tug Hill WMA by Tim PyszczynskiIn 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

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Nature, Recreation, Western NY Tagged With: DEC, hunting, Logging, nature, trapping, Tug Hill Plateau, Wildlife

Study Seeks To Answer Questions About Fisher Declines

May 4, 2020 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Fisher at Mount Rainier National Park courtesy Emily Brouwer NPSOver 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

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Nature, Western NY Tagged With: DEC, fishers, nature, small mammals, Tug Hill Plateau, Wildlife

Lynn Herzig: Beaver Falls in the 1950s

March 24, 2017 by Bob Cudmore 1 Comment

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

Filed Under: History Tagged With: Adirondacks, Beaver Falls, Beaver River, Podcasts, Tug Hill Plateau

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