A TYPE OF THIi HEAVILY TIMBERED, STEEP MOUNTAIN SLOPES SURVEYED BY THE 

 CONSERVATION COMMISSION AS A FIRST STEP TOWARD PURCHASE 



There is ample opportunity for such extension without 

 crowding out all private holdings. The area within the Blue 

 Line of the Adirondack Park is 3,313,564 acres, including both 

 state and private lands. The area within the Blue Line of the 

 Catskill Park is 576,120 acres. Here is a total of 3,889,684 acres, 

 of which the state, when it has completed its acquisitions under 

 the present bond issue, will probably own only about 2,070,000 

 acres.* The purchase of all the remaining 1,800,000 acres of 

 private land is not advocated. It would be too expensive in 

 the first place; and besides, private ownerships here and there 



•The Forest Preserve includes about 170,000 acres outside the Blue Lines. 



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