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Old 06-19-2008 | 12:04 PM
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Default RE: Adirondack land sold/given to Nature Conservancy

161,000 acres...is a paultrydrop in the bucket.

Note that the majority is privately owned and canbe bought/soldon a whim. The State will likely never relinquish the Public Landwhich it's taked great pains to aquire in the past several decades.

The Adirondack Mountains are contained within the 6.1 million acresof the Adirondack Park, which includes a constitutionally-protected Forest Preserve of approximately 2.3 million acres. About 43% of the land is owned by the state, with 57% private inholdings, heavily regulated by the Adirondack Park Agency.[2] The Adirondack Park contains thousands of streams, brooks and lakes, most famously Lake Placid, adjacent to the village of Lake Placid, two-time site of the Olympic Winter Games, the Saranac Lakes, favored by the sportsmen who made the Adirondacks famous, and Raquette Lake, site of many of the first Great Camps.
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