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https://www.adirondackalmanack.com/2021/12/nysdecs-management-fiasco-in-the-high-peaks-wilderness-area.html A very strange thing happened this fall in the High Peaks Wilderness Area. The Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) worked for weeks in 2021 with heavy machinery to rebuild an old logging road in the Dudley Brook area of the MacIntyre East section of the High Peaks Wilderness. This is the same area where the DEC had worked for months in 2019 and 2020 to tear apart old logging roads. However, the DEC says they’re not rebuilding the road; they say they’re simply correcting a massive mistake that somehow its leaders in Albany had failed to notice for the last two years. This is one of the strangest things I’ve seen in Forest Preserve management at the DEC in the last two decades. In 2019, DEC approved a work plan to do something new and different. The DEC set out in 2019 and 2020 to expedite ecological restoration and reclaim a series of old logging roads in newly purchased and newly classified lands in the MacIntyre East section of the High Peaks Wilderness. These lands are on the south side of the Opalescent River, include the southwestern flanks of Allen Mountain, and are bordered by conservation easement lands and a Primitive Corridor logging road. Since DEC work plans are not published, and since this is a trailless section of the High Peaks Wilderness where public access is difficult, involving a deep ford of the Opalescent River, we did not learn about this work right away. We had heard about similar road reclamation work in the Boreas Ponds area, but public access to that area has been limited and restricted in recent months. There are many old logging roads in Wilderness Areas, such as the Burn Road in the William C. Whitney Area, among many others, that see slow change over the decades as the forest steadily, but incrementally, eats away at them and reclaims these roadways. Many of these old roads retain old culverts and human geometric forms from benchcuts, banking, grading, and borrow pits, among other road construction features, for decades. In the MacIntyre East and Boreas Ponds areas, DEC organized work crews in 2019 and 2020 to tear apart these road corridors, and build a series of pits and mounds (see below) that mimic the natural forest, with the objective of changing the long linear geometry of these road corridors and expediting forest reclamation. (Click here for pictures of abandoned roadways where pits and mounds were built to restore the road corridor.) This work covered nearly 20 miles total of abandoned roads. A section of ecologically reclaimed road. The DEC reversed course suddenly, and without any public notice, at some point in 2021, DEC leaders in Albany did an about-face. After field visits, DEC’s Albany team organized a new effort to go back in to the old logging roads and tear out the mounds and fill in the pits. This effort had the effect of reconstituting a roadway. DEC leaders say that rebuilding a roadway was not their aim. Their objective, they contend, was to correct mistakes made in 2019 and 2020 that had escaped their notice, to protect water quality and public safety, and improve forest regeneration.

Don't know what your story is dude I don't know you I don't know who this storm is and you bring me up in the thread that I almost never look and didn't you just get banned for something and you're back here causing trouble again crazy .

I am thinking maybe you are since I dont have a clue what the blazes you are talking about .

Who is that ?

I watch them all only way to filter out the truth

Yea but i have heard you parrot word for word stuff on CNN is that you great place for facts lol

Brandon made fool of himself again .

Yea be nice to just use a single shot rifle in both seasons great idea!! i would be all for it . Also helps out people that dont have the money to buy all these different guns and gear good for the new guys just starting out

Lol Chris Como after the vax lol

I leave my gun the way they are in storage, i dont dry fire them to relax the firepin sping never had a problem I literally have guns that I haven't shot for 15 20 years and they go boom all the same when I pull the trigger .Did i get lucky or depends on the firearm .

They want to setup a one party goverment like china here with the goverment being like a pope and religion and the earth is the god .Climate change this viruse its all being taken advantage of to further their crazy leftist Utopia or nightmare depending on what side you're on of this argument. When the right question something you're an idiot for asking when the left says something they're smart they pretty much already got it there way now .

Near Neversink roundout Reservoir you should take a look like I think 1 hour and 1/2 from you .

Arctic-China State Forest is near you with all that land there why would you hunt down state 3 hours away for ?

Law does not bother me always used at least a orange hat when gun hunting. Its disturbing to be on public land and have some guy in full camo just pop out of nowhere it feels like you are the run being hunted almost , on private land its a little different but on public land definitely everybody should be using orange .

You be surprised could have been pissed the guy did not marry her before she got knocked up.

Shooter shot his daughters fiance. Do you think just maybe dady wanted someone better then this guy and oops pulled that trigger .

I like to know if this guy had a doe permit . Because if he didn't whats he shooting at ? You would need to get a good look at the deer to know that . I have a hard time believing most of these are accidents.

Yep they new each other , I agree with you not a accident the guy did not help by not using orange he gave the other guy a excuse to get away with it .

Who else thinks leftover turkey tastes better the next day warmed up then when you eat it just out the oven .

We always do turkey for tg but a stuffed chicken or even better stuffed cornish hens are so much better then turkey in my opinion.

Happy Thanksgiving

Nice what zone ?

I bet when you pay hospitals, if it's covid related of course

Did you here some of those clown polticians blaming his AR 15 for him being attacked aa if holding a AR is grounds to be attacked by a pediphile and those other criminals . What kind of messes up world are these people trying to make .