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Article: KEEPING NEW YORK GREEN; OFFICIALS SAY TUG HILL LAND DEAL PROTECTS TREES, RIVERS.(Local)
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- The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
- Article date:
- February 22, 2004
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Byline: Edwin Acevedo Staff writer
Ayoung forest in the Tug Hill region will have a chance to become an old one, thanks to The Nature Conservancy and work by its field office in Sandy Creek.
Workers spent last year taking an inventory of the land's habitats, making notes on the plants and wildlife in about 14,200 acres of northern Lewis County, said Doug Thompson, North Country program director for the Nature Conservancy.
This summer, conservancy will begin looking at the aquatic habitats, Thompson said.
Theirs is the first of many conservation efforts planned for the tract, part of a $9.1 million, 44,650-acre purchase made in 2002 ...