New York Laws
Title 1 - Department of Environmental Conservation
3-0115 - Establishment of Forestry and Wildlife Management Areas by United States; Consent of State.

United States; consent of state.

1. To implement and supplement federal statutes now in effect and to
authorize the acquisition by the United States of America of upland area
for conservation purposes, the consent of the State of New York is
hereby granted to the United States of America:

a. To acquire, on or before July 1, 1940, by means of purchase,
devise, gift or condemnation such upland areas in the State of New York
and outside the statutory boundaries of the Adirondack and Catskill
parks as are necessary and suitable for forestry and wildlife management
areas; and

b. To forest or reforest such areas and to construct or erect upon
such lands, such truck trails, bridges, ditches, fire lanes, water
holes, service structures and similar improvements as are necessary for
the protection and administration of these lands as forestry or wildlife
management areas; and

c. To hold title to such upland areas herein described and heretofore
acquired for the foregoing purposes, reserving, however, to the State of
New York, full and complete jurisdiction and authority over all such
areas not incompatible with the administration, maintenance, and
protection thereof by the United States of America; provided, however,
that the United States of America shall make no regulations governing
such areas which shall be in conflict with the provisions of the
Conservation Law, as amended or as may hereafter be amended, or those
provisions of the Environmental Conservation Law of the State of New
York which were derived from the Conservation Law.

2. Such lands as are under contract of purchase by the United States
of America, or to acquire which condemnation proceedings have been
commenced on or before July 1, 1940 shall be deemed acquired within the
meaning of paragraph a of subdivision one of this section.