Finding the Forest: The maps that made the Adirondacks - Part 1
Channel: Hike Long Lake
Date: 2024-02-09

The history of the Adirondacks can be read in the maps that defined the Forest Preserve; The Sargent Commission Map of 1891, the maps of the New York State Forest Commission, and the Fire Protection Map of 1916. In this first in a series of videos I'm looking at one of the primary forces that shaped the Adirondacks we experience today, fire. Many of the management policies taken over the past century were driven by efforts to find and suppress wildfires. A topic that resonates as widely today as it did in the past.