PatchOps

Available tools

5 tools

Tool	Description
`searchForestPreserve`	NY Forest Preserve (Adirondack + Catskill, ~1,510 polygons). Filter county (UPPERCASE with periods e.g. 'WARREN' / 'ESSEX' / 'ULSTER' / 'ST. LAWRENCE'), region (DEC region 1-9; Adirondack=5, Catskill region=4 + 3), facility (unit name substring), minAcres, bbox, near. includeDetachedParcels=true by default adds 140 FOR PRES DET PAR polygons.
`searchStateForests`	NY State Forests (~817 working state forest polygons). Filter county, region (1-9), forestName, minAcres, bbox, near.
`searchWildlifeManagementAreas`	NY Wildlife Management Areas, DEC hunting/fishing lands (~336 polygons). Filter county, region, wmaName (e.g. 'Tonawanda' / 'Perch River'), minAcres, bbox.
`searchAllDecLands`	Generic search across all 23 CATEGORY codedValues (~3.2K polygons). Filter category (FOREST PRESERVE / STATE FOREST / WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT / TIDAL WETLAND / FRESHWATER WETLAND / MULTIPLE USE AREA / UNIQUE AREA / TRAILWAY / SCENIC RESOURCE / SHORELINE PROTECTION / etc.), county, region, facility, minAcres, bbox.
`getServiceInfo`	Schema, record count, max-page cap (2000), all 23 CATEGORY codedValues with counts (live), 9 DEC administrative regions, §0 probe notes.

About

New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Lands via the NYSDEC public data services (agency data services /, item id 84b4cce8a8974c31a1c5584540f3aaae). A single layer 0 with ~3,233 polygons covering every DEC-administered tract of state-trust land in NY, segmented by a CATEGORY column with 23 codedValues: FOREST PRESERVE 1,370 (Adirondack plus Catskill Park, with 140 detached parcels coded FOR PRES DET PAR); STATE FOREST 817 (working state forests); WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT 336 (WMAs, DEC's hunting/fishing lands); FISHING ACCESS 182; TIDAL WETLAND 101; WATERWAY ACCESS 87; UNIQUE AREA 76; MULTIPLE USE AREA 41; SPECIAL USE 32; ADMINISTRATIVE 17; EDUCATIONAL 8; TRAILWAY 7; FRESHWATER WETLAND 7; NRA (Natural Resource Area) 4; UNCLASSIFIED 3; SCENIC RESOURCE 2; SHORELINE PROTECTION 2; LEASED ACCESS 1; plus FLOWAGE RIGHTS, OPEN SPACE, RESTRICTED. Each polygon carries CATEGORY, FACILITY (the unit name), CLASS (single-character code), UMP (Unit Management Plan), REGION (DEC admin region 1-9), COUNTY, ACRES, URL (link to the agency host page), UPDATED (epoch ms). DEC region distribution: 5=Adirondack 1,204 / 6=Black River-Mohawk 559 / 4=Capital 308 / 7=Central NY 315 / 3=Lower Hudson 246 / 1=Long Island 248 / 9=Western NY 163 / 8=Western Finger Lakes 161 / 2=NYC 29. Section 0 surprises: COUNTY values are UPPERCASE with periods (ST. LAWRENCE / ST. CLAIR, not 'Saint Lawrence'), 62 distinct counties, and the handler matches case-insensitively. REGION is a SmallInteger 1-9 mapping to DEC's 9 administrative regions, not a string label. PUBLICUSE has only one value ('Y') for all 3,233 features, so the handler does not expose it as a filter. NYS State Parks are administered by OPRHP (a separate agency) and are not in the DEC Lands layer; for state parks use a different connector (out of scope here). Last verified live 2026-05-08.

Requirements

Toggle on
Toggle on and use, no setup needed.

Setup

A few steps to connect your AI agents to NY DEC Lands.

Get started

1
Toggle Connector On
Open /mcp and enable NY DEC Lands with the toggle, no credentials needed.
2
Start Querying
Call searchForestPreserve with region: 5 (Adirondack) and minAcres: 1000 for the largest Adirondack Forest Preserve units, or searchWildlifeManagementAreas with wmaName: 'Tonawanda' for that WMA's polygon.

Connect to your AI assistant

Pick the tool your team uses for the exact setup steps.

1
Open Claude settings
Launch Claude, click the profile button (bottom left), and go to Settings.
2
Access connectors
Open the Connectors tab, scroll to the bottom, and click “Add custom connector”.
3
Name your connector
Enter any name you’d like for this connector.
4
Get the connector URL
Log in to PatchOps, open the /mcp page, and copy the connector URL you want to use.
5
Add the connector
Paste the URL into the “Remote MCP server URL” box and click Add.
6
Start using
Your NY DEC Lands connector is ready to use in Claude.