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The Oatskill Forest preserve includes the following : 



Square miles 



Delaware county 1.580 



Greene county • 



Ulster county 1,204 



Sullivan county 1.082 



Total 4,552 



Adding The area of the Adirondack Forest preserve to the 

 area of the Oatskill Forest preserve, we have a total of 23,253 

 square miles. There is, however, some deduction from this, but 

 the entire area is over 20.000 square miles. The total land area 

 of the State of New York is about 47,620 square miles. Hence, 

 we reach the conclusion that the originators of this act propose 

 to ultimately reforest perhaps 42 per cent of the total land area 

 of New York. 



Oatskill park. Thus far the Oatskill park has not been defined 

 by law. although considerable time has been spent by the Super- 

 intendent of Forests in a personal examination of the Catskill 

 region in order to determine the portion best adapted to forestry 

 purposes. For the present the proposed Catskill park includes 

 703 square miles, which the Forest Preserve Board deems advis- 

 able to purchase in this region. It is described as follows: 



This area includes the towns of Hardenburgh, Shandaken, Den- 

 ning, Woodstock and the westerly portion of Olive and Rochester, 

 in Ulster county ; the greater part of the towns of Hunter and 

 Lexington, in Greene county; that portion of the towns of Col- 

 chester, Andes and Middletown, in Delaware county, which lie 

 south of the Delaware river ; and that part of the towns of Never- 

 sink and Rockland, in Sullivan county, which are situated in 

 great lot 5 of the Hardenburgh patent. 



This area, forming the proposed Catskill park, may be 

 described also in a general way as bounded on the north by the 

 Delaware river. Schoharie creek, and the line of the railroad 

 running from Hunter to Kaaterskill station; on the east by the 

 line of the Great Hardenburgh patent; on the south by the south- 

 erly line of the great lot 5, and on the west by the town line 

 between Lexington and nalcott. 



