APA Science and Research
About the APA’s Research Analysis and Scientific Services Unit
The Adirondack Park provides
a rich landscape for the research of natural and cultural resources.
Throughout
its more than a quarter-century of operation, the Adirondack Park
Agency (APA) has built scientific, geographic, and planning databases
to be able to serve the public more effectively and efficiently,
to aid the decision-making process for other State agencies, local
governments, organizations and landowners in the Park, and to encourage
more research involvement within the Park.
Fast Facts
Area Statistics by county for the park from the Adirondack Park Land Use and Development Plan and State Land Map
Adirondack Park Land Use and Development Plan Map and State Land Map - this interactive map also includes park wetlands and designated river system areas.
GIS at the Adirondack Park Agency
Additional links:
About the Park: Species and Natural Communities, Geology and Adirondack History.
List of Species Native Within the Adirondack Park
alphabetically by Common
Name or listed alphabetically by Scientific Name
EPA Wetland & Watershed Reports
Find More Information...
Learn more about GIS at the APA
Visit the Adirondack Park Invasives Plant Program website.
Visit the Adirondack Research Consortium website.
"Anothura troglodytes [Troglodytes troglodytes - Winter Wren]-No.
585, August 11, 1875. Rather common in the dense woods, but rarely
seen ... it is often heard; however, for it possesses a gushing,
ringing song, wonderfully loud for so small a creature; excepting
the thrushes it is the sweetest songster in the Adirondac woods
..."
-- Teddy Roosevelt, age 16, from his pamphlet The Summer
Birds of the Adirondacks in Franklin County, N.Y.