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Forestland Parcelization in the New York City Watershed

Author(s) -

Seth LaPierre,

René H. Germain

Publication year - 2005

Publication title -

journal of forestry

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.636

H-Index - 74

eISSN - 1938-3746

pISSN - 0022-1201

DOI - 10.1093/jof/103.3.139

Subject(s) - watershed , water supply , water quality , land use , forest cover , land cover , geography , environmental science , business , water resource management , environmental engineering , civil engineering , engineering , ecology , machine learning , computer science , biology

New York City's (NYC) water supply system is the largest unfiltered surface storage and supply system in the country. Forests cover 89 percent of the Catskill/Delaware systems, with 75 percent of the forest area owned by non-industrial private forestland (NIPF) owners. The results describe the degree of parcelizotion on private forestlands in four of the five counties within the Catskill/Delawore systems of the NYC Watershed between 1984 and 2000. Parcelization on NIPF in the eastern half of the Catskill/Delaware systems is occurring at a rate exceeding the national average. The overage parcel size is 14 acres, 10 acres below the current national average for NIPF, and already below the projected national NIPF overage parcel size of 17 acres for 2010. Changes in land use and development on private lands threaten the quality of the NYC water supply.

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