Forest Preserve
The two largest parks in New York State are the Adirondack Park at six million acres (24,000 km²) and the Catskill Park at 700,000 acres (2,800 km2). They are managed by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation; the Adirondack Park is also managed by the Adirondack Park Agency. Together, they comprise the Forest Preserve.
Read more about this topic: List Of New York State Parks
Famous quotes containing the words forest and/or preserve:
““I am as brown as brown can be,
And my eyes as black as sloe;
I am as brisk as brisk can be,
And wild as forest doe.”
—Unknown. The Brown Girl (l. 1–4)
“The worst of charity is, that the lives you are asked to preserve are not worth preserving.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)