Report of tf)e 3ttpenntendent of 



Forests. 



• AREA Of THE FORC3T PR£3ERVE. 



Albany, N. Y., December 31, 1897. 



To tl)e Commissioners of Fisheries, (tame and Forests: 



GENTLEMEN : — I have the honor to submit the following report, showing the 

 location and acreage of the lands constituting the Forest Preserve at the present time. 

 The delay in publication has enabled me to make the changes necessary to bring it 

 down to September 30, 1897. This schedule of lots and parcels is based on the 

 records of the Comptroller's office, with the exception of one tract, containing 7,500 

 acres, which does not appear on the Comptroller's land list, but which is included in 

 the schedule appended here. This tract — S. E. %, Township 24, Franklin county — 

 was formerly borne on the land list, but the State's title having been canceled in 1891 

 by the Comptroller, it was stricken from the list as recorded in that office. In the 

 meantime the Court of Appeals rendered a decision that the title is still vested in the 

 State, in view of which I have retained it in our schedule of lands and on our 

 Adirondack map, have colored it red to indicate that it still forms part of the Forest 

 Preserve. 



This schedule does not include any of the lands recently purchased by the Forest 

 Preserve Board which, at the time of going to press, amounts to over 250,000 acres. 

 The various tracts and parcels composing this large and valuable addition to the 

 preserve will appear in the next publication of the land list. 



From the following schedule it appears that, exclusive of the area acquired by the 

 purchase made by the Forest Preserve Board, the State Preserve contains at the 

 present time 908,904 acres. Of this area the Adirondack Preserve contains 852,392 

 acres, and the Catskill Preserve 56,512 acres. These figures include the 39,564 acres 

 acquired by the tax sale of 1895. 



The acreage of the preserve, as contained in each county, is as follows: 

 13s 



