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Awareness Center |
- 1,200 sq. ft. interpretive
assembly building
- Extensive Collection of
Natural History
- Over 40 full mounts of native
animals
- Over 100 pressed plant
specimens
- Dozens of antlers, skins,
skulls and scats
- Over 1,000 plaster casts of
native animal tracks
- Dozens of bird, bee, insect,
rodent, etc nests
- Extensive Collection of
Northeast Native American
Woodland Cultural Material
- Dozens of Elm Bark implements,
including baskets, rattles,
spoons, sheaths and quivers
- Dozens of stone projectile
points found throughout NYS
- Brain-tanned Buckskin Clothing
- Fire making tools (stone age
and colonial era)
- Tools, Food, and many other
items of importance and interest
- Composting Outhouses
- Primitive Shelters
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The
Land |
- 60 acres adjoining 1,000
acres of state forest
- 6 beaver ponds, stream,
marsh, mixed hardwood forests,
hemlock and pine stands
- 300’ boardwalk, over 1 mile
of trails
- Diverse flora and fauna,
including uncommon species
- A short distance to Heron
Rookery and NYS’s 2nd Oldest
Known Stand of Trees
- Arboretum
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Permaculture Design |
- Cultivating Shiitake
Mushrooms, practicing
agro-forestry
- Sustainable harvest of trees
for heat, ITS Method
- Gardens & Orchards
- Native & “modern” crops /
methods
- Herb, Vegetable, Flower,
Habitat
- Growing an edible landscape
- Compost all organic matter
- Water Collection System
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