Misplaced Pages

Split Rock Wildway

Article snapshot taken from[REDACTED] with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.
Find sources: "Split Rock Wildway" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (November 2024) (Learn how and when to remove this message)
Wildlife corridor in New York state

The Split Rock Wildway is a proposed wildlife corridor between the Split Rock Wild Forest and the Jay Mountain Wilderness Area in the eastern Adirondack Park in Essex County, New York. The area is located within the Champlain Valley along Lake Champlain. The Wildway captures a diversity of natural communities in the northern hardwood forest ecosystem, including low-lying clayplain forests, wetlands, the Boquet River floodplain forest, montane spruce-fir forests, and sub-alpine flora. The Champlain Valley is a major flyway for hawks, songbirds, and waterfowl; of the 193 birds that breed in the Adirondacks, 155 are found in the valley. The Wildway provides habitat for a variety of wildlife, including mink, otter, white-tailed deer, fisher, and bobcats. The northernmost population of eastern timber rattlesnakes, an endangered species in New York, inhabits rocky outcrops in the Split Rock Wild Forest. The majority of land in the Wildway is privately owned and at risk to land subdivision and habitat fragmentation.

References

  1. Federman, Adam (2013). "Return OF THE WILD". Earth Island Journal. 28 (1): 42–46.
  2. Rowland, Tim (2 January 2018). "Wildlands offer priceless benefits to entire East Coast ecosystem". Daily Times.

External links


Stub icon

This article about a location in Essex County, New York is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

Categories:
Split Rock Wildway Add topic