Forest Shaker
Snowmobiling is allowed on the 7.5 miles of designated snowmobile trails in the Shaker Mountain Wild Forest. The C8 and C7G snowmobile trails traverse the wild forest lands. The trails are maintained by the local snowmobile club the Bleecker Snow Rovers (leaves DEC website) and the Nick Stoner Trailers. Snowmobile trail maps are available from them.
Forest Shaker
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Protecting and enhancing the health and diversity of our urban forest to ensure the economic, environmental, and social benefits for future generations. This is accomplished through a comprehensive program involving planting, pruning, pest and disease control, removals and tree inventory.
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Large, oval shaped holes in trees hold clues that pileated woodpeckers are nearby. Their loud drumming can be heard as they establish territories, but keep an eye for the large, black and white woodpecker as it just might streak across the forest.
How many different kinds of trees can you spot? Even an avid hiker will be impressed with variety of trees along this trail. From the smooth, soft bark of the beech tree to the distinctly blocky bark of the rarely seen persimmon, this forest hosts much more than the oak trees implied by its name.
Home is where the habitat is! Keep your eyes peeled for the changing habitats along this trail as you experience young woodlands, mature forest and tallgrass prairie. This diversity of habitats leads to an exciting array of wildlife by providing food, water, shelter and space to many different species.
More specifically, the Urban Site Index allows foresters, like Orlowski, to input a variety of data for a planting site to determine the best tree selection for the planting conditions and available planting space.
Shaker Mountain Wild Forest encompasses a quintessential Adirondack landscape of forested low mountains and valleys, crisscrossed by streams and dotted with ponds and lakes. The 40,500-acre (16,390 ha) wild forest is in upstate New York in the United States and is the southernmost unit in the Adirondack Forest Preserve within Adirondack Park. An extensive trail system weaves through the forest. Of are 17 named mountains, Pigeon Mountain is the tallest (2,789 ft/850 m) and the most prominent (863 ft/263 m).
The 40,527-acre Shaker Mountain Wild Forest is the southernmost unit of the Adirondack Forest Preserve, one of only two constitutionally protected landscapes in the world (the other is Catskill Park in southern New York). The Adirondack Forest Preserve is a unit of Adirondack Park, a 6-million-acre patchwork of public and private land in upstate New York. About 1.3 million acres (525,000 ha) of the Adirondack Forest Preserve is public land classified as wild forest, where motorized vehicles are permitted.
Although the Kane Mountain summit is fully forested, sweeping views from the top of the tower take in the Canada Lakes region, Caroga and Peck Lake, Silver Lake Wilderness to the north, and Ferris Lake Wild Forest to the west. Further away and visible on clear days are the Mohawk Valley, the Catskill Mountains in the south, and the Helderbergs in the southeast.
The Shaker Mountain Wild Forest is highly accessible due to its proximity to public roads and trails. NYS Route 10 and 29A provide highway access to the western area of the forest, and NYS Route 30 provides access to the eastern region.
Today, topography in the Shaker Mountain Wild Forest is primarily low, rolling forested hills with a maximum elevation of 2,780 feet (847 m) at the summit of Pigeon Mountain. The lowest elevation in the forest is about 880 feet (268 m) along West Stony Creek in the town of Benson.
The Shaker Mountain Wild Forest lies at the southern end of the eastern forest-boreal transition ecoregion. Therefore, the forest is a transitional zone between coniferous Boreal Forest and mostly deciduous broadleaf forest. Most of this ecoregion lies in eastern Canada, but a portion stretches south into the Adirondack Mountains. The Adirondacks are home to diverse habitats, including boreal, bog, wetland, and alpine. Summers in the region are typically short and cool, and winters are long and cold. Annual precipitation ranges between 45 and 50 in (114 to 127 cm).
There are several dominant forest types found within the Shaker Mountain Wild Forest. Northern hardwood forests typically grow up to 2,500 ft (762 m) elevation on sites with decent drainage. They contain sugar maple, American beech, yellow birch with eastern hemlock, black cherry, white ash, red oak, and red maple. Hobblebush and striped maple grow abundantly in the understory.
Vegetation in the Shaker Mountain Wild Forest was heavily impacted by logging during the 19th century. Because of logging in the 1800s and 1900s, only a few sections of older hardwoods remain. The forest mainly consists of younger second-growth hardwoods.
The forest houses many birds, both residents and migratory birds passing along the Atlantic Flyway. The most common birds associated with water are loons, grebes, great blue herons, American bitterns, mallards, American black ducks, wood ducks, hooded mergansers, and common mergansers.
Numerous songbirds thrive in the forest. These include ovenbirds, red-eyed vireos, yellow-bellied sapsuckers, black-capped chickadees, blue jays, downy woodpeckers, brown creepers, wood thrushes, black-throated blue warblers, pileated woodpeckers, and black and white warblers. The forests and waterways draw in several birds of prey, such as barred owls, great horned owls, eastern screech-owls, northern goshawks, red-tailed hawks, sharp-shinned hawks, and broad-winged hawks.
The region's main mammals that occupy forests are white-tailed deer, black bears, coyotes, bobcats, raccoons, red foxes, gray foxes, fishers, minks, muskrats, river otters, beavers, moose, porcupines, striped skunks, snowshoe hares, and American martens. A handful of amphibians and reptiles make their home in the forest, including several species of toads, frogs, salamanders, newts, snakes, and turtles.
During the 19th century, the area experienced intensive logging. Shaker Mountain Wild Forest continued to be logged longer than some other neighboring forests because it was outside the original boundaries of Adirondack Park.
Needing money to settle war debts, the newly established state of New York sold millions of acres of Adirondack wilderness to loggers and farmers, leading to rapid deforestation and overhunting. Early logging targeted overstory pine and spruce for sawlogs and hemlock for bark. Leather production was essential to the local economy and demanded lots of oak and hemlock for processing and tanning.
Around 1880, there was a shift to harvest spruce pulpwood. The cutting of softwoods for pulp left behind flammable debris. In several instances, sparks from trains ignited this debris and started fires that damaged parts of the forest.
During the mid to late 19th century, the Adirondacks saw a significant influx in tourism, particularly among wealthy individuals from New York City. With this influx in tourism came a growing concern about the destruction of Adirondack forests. A series of legal actions led to the creation and protection of forests in the Adirondacks. The Forest Preserve was established in 1885. In 1892, the federal government created Adirondack Park. Shaker Mountain Wild Forest was born in 1972 as part of the Adirondack Park State Land Master Plan.
\nShaker Mountain Wild Forest encompasses a quintessential Adirondack landscape of forested low mountains and valleys, crisscrossed by streams and dotted with ponds and lakes. The 40,500-acre (16,390 ha) wild forest is in upstate New York in the United States and is the southernmost unit in the Adirondack Forest Preserve within Adirondack Park. An extensive trail system weaves through the forest. Of are 17 named mountains, Pigeon Mountain is the tallest (2,789 ft/850 m) and the most prominent (863 ft/263 m).\n
\nThe 40,527-acre Shaker Mountain Wild Forest is the southernmost unit of the Adirondack Forest Preserve, one of only two constitutionally protected landscapes in the world (the other is Catskill Park in southern New York). The Adirondack Forest Preserve is a unit of Adirondack Park, a 6-million-acre patchwork of public and private land in upstate New York. About 1.3 million acres (525,000 ha) of the Adirondack Forest Preserve is public land classified as wild forest, where motorized vehicles are permitted.\n
\nAlthough the Kane Mountain summit is fully forested, sweeping views from the top of the tower take in the Canada Lakes region, Caroga and Peck Lake, Silver Lake Wilderness to the north, and Ferris Lake Wild Forest to the west. Further away and visible on clear days are the Mohawk Valley, the Catskill Mountains in the south, and the Helderbergs in the southeast.\n
\nThe Shaker Mountain Wild Forest is highly accessible due to its proximity to public roads and trails. NYS Route 10 and 29A provide highway access to the western area of the forest, and NYS Route 30 provides access to the eastern region.\n
\nToday, topography in the Shaker Mountain Wild Forest is primarily low, rolling forested hills with a maximum elevation of 2,780 feet (847 m) at the summit of Pigeon Mountain. The lowest elevation in the forest is about 880 feet (268 m) along West Stony Creek in the town of Benson. \n
\nThe Shaker Mountain Wild Forest lies at the southern end of the eastern forest-boreal transition ecoregion. Therefore, the forest is a transitional zone between coniferous Boreal Forest and mostly deciduous broadleaf forest. Most of this ecoregion lies in eastern Canada, but a portion stretches south into the Adirondack Mountains. The Adirondacks are home to diverse habitats, including boreal, bog, wetland, and alpine. Summers in the region are typically short and cool, and winters are long and cold. Annual precipitation ranges between 45 and 50 in (114 to 127 cm). \n 041b061a72