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used New York State’s Temporary Emergency Relief Administration (TERA) to put unemployed men to work on conservation projects. (You can read about this in a recent article by David Gibson here). Roosevelt supported both efforts, resulting in creation of State Forests outside of the Adirondack and Catskill Parks, which now total about a million acres, including The High Tor Wildlife Management Area. In 1931, he vocally supported the 1931 Hewitt Reforestation Amendment to the New York Constitution which resulted in planting tree seedlings on thousands of acres of with depleted soils and significant erosion.īecause it would expand logging and tree plantations near the then much smaller Adirondack Park, the Hewitt Amendment was opposed by New York State conservationists such as John Apperson, who pressured Roosevelt to instead expand the Adirondack Park by about 1.5 million acres. They return to the land more than they take from it and maintain its fertility.” “They protect the head waters of our rivers and streams, they prevent the too rapid run-off of rain and melting snow and tend to equalize the flow of streams. cited the benefits of forests during a radio address on March 31, 1930.

environmental legacy has only recently begun to be highlighted by historians. The funds pay for restoration, land acquisition, wildlife habitat management, and wildlife-related recreation programs.į.D.R. Half of the excise tax on handguns and archery equipment is used for hunter education and target ranges. Roosevelt in 1937, the Pittman-Robertson Act (officially the Federal Aid in Wildlife Restoration Act) established an 11% federal excise tax on the sale of sporting arms, ammunition, and archery equipment, and 10% tax on handguns. To ensure that use is in compliance with the Act, the state is planning to include the land in the High Tor Wildlife Management Area in Yates County. The State purchased the parcel from the Parker Trust for $171,300 utilizing federal Pittman-Robertson Act (1937) funds. Roosevelt in the creation of New York States Forests and Wildlife Management Areas. New York State’s recent acquisition of the 86-acres Parker tract in the Finger Lakes area, recalls the role of New York State Governor and later U.S.