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Lows Lake classification ruling by court....
..was announced today. It has been ruled that the lake is to remain Wilderness.
Click here for full story in the Times-Union Great news here!!!
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"A wilderness area is further defined to mean an area of state land or water having a primeval character, without significant improvement or protected and managed so as to preserve, enhance and restore, where necessary, its natural conditions, and which generally appears to have been affected primarily by the forces of nature, with the imprint of man's work substantially unnoticeable;..."
Shouldn't we remove the dam? |
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Dam???....I hardly noticed any on my trips there.
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I think, the DEC trail crew should be allowed to run motorboats for cleaning campsites & replacing (complete) privies etc. @ least once a year. Hear they have a little trouble getting things like those allowed & done.
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Does a body know how high does the dam raise the level of the lake?
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https://picasaweb.google.com/1165375...30269835198642 I do know that when the dam was constructed, it combined a lot of smaller ponds and wetlands into one big lake. You can still see a lot of the bog and soil mats floating in the lake. You can find what the Lows Lake area used to look like on this topo map from the 20's. Compare that to a map from today, and the difference is quite obvious. |
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I would also guess it's about 15 feet, just based on the water level of Lows (531) vs. Hitchins (516).
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The trek director at Camp Sabattis (BSA) tells me that at the beginning of the season each year they make the rounds and bring out several boatloads of trash bags. But other than general cleaning of the area, they don't do anything with the privies.
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Edited to add a couple pics of DEC crew & Privy Work on Lows mentioned above:
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