The
Adirondack region boasts over 3,000
lakes, 30,000 miles of rivers and streams,
and a wide variety of habitats, including
globally unique wetland types and old growth
forests. The heart of the Adirondack Park
is the Forest Preserve, which was created
by an act of the Legislature in 1885 which
stated, “The lands now or hereafter constituting
the Forest Preserve shall be forever kept
as wild forest lands. They shall not be sold,
nor shall they be leased or taken by any person
or corporation, public or private.” The
state of New York owns approximately 43 percent,
or roughly 2.6 million acres of land within
the Park’s boundaries. The remaining
private lands are devoted principally to forestry,
agriculture, and open space recreation. The
Adirondack Park is unique in its intricate
mixture of public and private lands. About
130,000 people live here year round in its
105 towns and villages. The harmonious blend
of private and public lands give the Adirondacks
a diversity found nowhere else – a diversity
of open space and recreational lands, of wildlife
and flora, of mountains and meadows, and people
of all walks of life. Info copywrite and
referenced from apa.state.ny.us
Lake Placid is a village of 2,638 in
the Adirondack Mountains in Essex County,
New York, near the center of the Town of North
Elba and named after an adjacent lake. While
the village is a year-round resort, it is
likely most known as the site of the 1980
Winter Olympics, and particularly the USA-USSR
hockey game, the "Miracle on Ice,"
when a group of American college students
and amateurs upset the heavily-favored Soviet
national ice hockey team 4-3 and two days
later won the gold medal. The victory is sometimes
ranked as one of the greatest in American
sports history. Olympic Ski JumpsLake Placid
also hosted the 1932 Winter Olympics. Along
with St. Moritz, Switzerland and Innsbruck,
Austria, it is one of the three places to
have twice hosted the Winter Olympic Games.
Lake Placid is well-known among winter sports
enthusiasts for its skiing, both Alpine and
Crosscountry, one of only three actual bobsled
rides in the North and South American continents,
the open skating on the Olympic Oval where
Eric Heiden won his five Olympic Gold Medals,
and one of the few places in the contiguous
United States which offers dogsled and sleigh
rides. Info copywrite and
referenced from wikipedia.org
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