FOREST, FISH AND GAME COMMISSIONER. I03 



Area of Forest Preserve. 



The lands now owned by the State of New York within the counties 

 of Clinton (except in the towns of Altona and Dannemora) , Essex, Frank- 

 lin, Fulton, Hamilton, Herkimer, Lewis, Oneida, Saratoga, Saint Lawrence, 

 Warren and Washington, in Northern New York, and within the counties 

 of Delaware, Greene, Ulster, and Sullivan in the Catskill region, these 

 lands constituting the Forest Preserve, have an area of 1,548,450 acres. 

 This includes 28,151 acres which were acquired by purchase during the 

 year 1907. Of the land thus bought, 23,224 acres are in the Adirondack 

 Park, and 4,927 acres are in the Catskill Park. Of the total area there was, 

 January 1, 1908, in the 



Adirondack Preserve 1 , 438 , 999 acres 



Catskill Preserve 109 ,451 " 



Total 1 , 548 , 450 acres 



Not all of the lands in the Forest Preserve are situated within the 

 Adirondack and Catskill Parks. There are 128,979 acres outside these 

 parks, located as follows: 



In Adirondack counties 118, 923 acres 



In Catskill counties 10 , 056 " 



Total 128,979 acres 



All of these outlying lands were acquired from time to time through 

 tax sales. 



The only loss in acreage by redemptions or cancellations of the State's 

 title in 1907 was that of in acres, situated in Lot 4, sub. 4, Rogers (Piatt) 

 & Co.'s Road Patent, town of Schroon, Essex county. The State's title 

 to this lot, acquired at the tax sale of 1900, was canceled by order of Hon. 

 William C. Wilson, State Comptroller, on application of Mr. Clarence L. 

 Weeks, of Schroon Lake, N. Y., for the reason that this land was doubly 



