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New York DEC Lands: Forest Preserve (Adirondack and Catskill), State Forests, Wildlife Management Areas, plus 20 other land-use categories, via the NYSDEC public data services (agency data services). About 3,233 polygons covering all DEC-administered land in NY. No credentials required.

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What you can ask

  • “What does NY DEC Lands have for the area or asset I'm working on?”
  • “Pull the most recent NY DEC Lands records and put them in a table.”
  • “What does NY DEC Lands cover, and how fresh is the data?”

About this source

New York DEC Lands — Forest Preserve (Adirondack + Catskill), State Forests, Wildlife Management Areas, plus 20 other CATEGORY values — via the NYSDEC ArcGIS Online FeatureServer (services6.arcgis.com / org DZHaqZm9cxOD4CWM). Single layer, ~3,233 polygons covering all DEC-administered land in NY. - searchForestPreserve ⭐ 1,510 polygons (Adirondack + Catskill incl 140 detached parcels) - searchStateForests ⭐ 817 working state forest polygons - searchWildlifeManagementAreas ⭐ 336 WMAs (DEC hunting/fishing lands) - searchAllDecLands across 23 CATEGORY values §0: COUNTY is UPPERCASE with periods (ST. LAWRENCE / ST. CLAIR). REGION is SmallInteger 1-9 mapping to DEC admin regions. Native CRS 26918; outSR=4326. State Parks NOT included (separate OPRHP agency).

Connector ID ny-dec-lands

Provenance

PublisherNY DEC Lands
API basehttps://services6.arcgis.com/DZHaqZm9cxOD4CWM/arcgis/rest/services/NYS_DEC_Lands/FeatureServer

Freshness & coverage

FreshnessFreshness not declared
GeographicNot declared
TemporalNot declared
AuthenticationNo credentials required

› Methods (5)

Technical detail for developers: parameters, pagination, units, and freshness per method.

  • searchForestPreserve

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    NY Forest Preserve (Adirondack + Catskill, ~1.5K). Filter county, region, facility, minAcres.

    includeDetachedParcels=true by default (adds 140 detached parcels).

  • searchStateForests

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    NY State Forests (~817 polygons). Filter county, region (1-9), forestName, minAcres, bbox.

  • searchWildlifeManagementAreas

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    NY WMAs — DEC hunting/fishing lands (~336 polygons). Filter county, region, wmaName, minAcres, bbox.

  • searchAllDecLands

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    Generic search across 23 CATEGORY values (~3.2K). Filter category, county, region, facility.

    Categories incl Tidal/Freshwater Wetland, Multiple Use Area, Unique Area.

  • getServiceInfo

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    Schema, record count, all 23 CATEGORY codedValues with counts, 9 DEC regions, §0 notes.