Several forested or partially wooded areas used for research, demonstration, and management purposes are near the main campus. Arnot Forest , eighteen miles from the campus, comprises four thousand acres of second-growth beech, birch, maple, hemlock, and associated native forest trees. The forest has populations of grouse, deer, and other wildlife and contains ten ponds. Facilities are available for short-term housing, teaching, and research. The station has a permanent research and maintenance staff and is the location of the Cornell Warmwater Fisheries Unit , a research group investigating warmwater fisheries and fish ecology across New York State.
Facilities are available for short-term housing, teaching, and research.
The Research, Ecology and Management Facility , located a half mile from the campus, contains facilities for instruction and research in wildlife, fishery, and aquatic science. The laboratory includes a chemistry lab, wet labs, an aquarium room, facilities for processing and holding fish, and a workshop. There are ten ponds on the laboratory grounds for research on warmwater fish in seminatural conditions. The Laboratory for Ecological and Evolutionary Genetics is a departmental facility that supports research on genetic variability on any type of biota. The Sapsucker Woods sanctuary of the Laboratory of Ornithology includes 180 acres of woods, shrub land, and wetland and is available for studies of songbirds.