East Branch of Fish Creek Recreation Management Plan
In autumn of 2005 the DEC acquired the first two of three parts of the largest acquisition projects ever on the Tug Hill Plateau. Known as the East Branch of Fish Creek Project, the People of the State of New York acquired a "working" forest conservation easement on approximately 30,000 acres of land south of the G & W Road (the old railroad bed of the Glenfield and Western Railroad) in the towns of Martinsburg, West Turin, Osceola, and Lewis in Lewis County from GMO Forestry Fund 3, L.P. (GMO) via The Nature Conservancy (TNC). GMO is a timber investment company that purchased the land in June of 2002. A private company, LandVest will manage these lands for GMO.
As part of the project, the DEC acquired full ownership of a 1,350-acre corridor of land along several miles of the creek to become the East Branch of Fish Creek State Forest.
Full Plan (pdf, 1.71 Mb)
Plan Parts
Plan and Appendices (pdf, 654 kb)
Map 2 - Potential Corridor Access Rights Map (pdf, 298 kb)
Map 3 - Planned Recreational Opportunities Access Map (north) (pdf, 191 kb)
Map 4 - Planned Recreational Opportunities Access Map (south) (pdf, 274)
Log Train Photo (pdf, 463 kb)
