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Belmont Lake State Park

Caleb Smith State Park

Caumsett State Historic Park

Connetquot River State Park Preserve

David A. Sarnoff Pine Barrens Preserve

Fire Island National Seashore

Garvies Point Museum and Preserve

Heckscher State Park

Jones Beach State Park

Long Island National Wildlife Refuge Complex

Mashomack Preserve

Montauk Point State Park

Nissequogue River State Park

Orient Beach State Park

Ridge Conservation Area

Robert Moses State Park

Rocky Point Natural Resources Management Area

Sunken Meadow State Park

Theodore Roosevelt Sanctuary and Audubon Center

Uplands Farm Sanctuary

Alley Pond Park

Clay Pit Ponds State Park Preserve

Fort Totten Park

Inwood Hill Park

Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge

Mount Loretto Unique Area

Pelham Bay Park and Orchard Beach

Van Cortlandt Park

Blenheim Gilboa Visitors Center

Buttercup Farm Audubon Sanctuary

Delaware-Otsego Audubon Society Sanctuary

Edith G. Read Wildlife Sanctuary

Hunter-West Kill Wilderness Area

Landis Arboretum

Little Pond Campground

Mine Kill State Park and Max V. Shaul State Park

Minnewaska State Park Preserve

Mohonk Preserve

Mongaup Valley Wildlife Management Area

North-South Lake Public Campground

Sam's Point Preserve

Shawangunk Grasslands National Wildlife Refuge

Slide Mountain Wilderness

Albany Pine Bush Preserve

Bashakill Wildlife Management Area

Bear Mountain State Park

Center for the Urban River at Beczak

Constitution Marsh Audubon Center and Sanctuary

Dyken Pond Environmental Education Center

Fahnestock State Park

Five Rivers Environmental Education Center

Grafton Lakes State Park

Hale Creek Field Station

Hand Hollow Conservation Area

Harriman State Park

Hudson Highlands State Park Preserve

Huyck Preserve and Biological Research Station

Iona Island National Estuarine Sanctuary and Research Reserve

John Boyd Thacher State Park

Marshlands Conservancy

Mills-Norrie State Park

Moreau Lake State Park

Peebles Island State Park

RamsHorn-Livingston Sanctuary

Rheinstrom Hill Sanctuary and Audubon Center

Saratoga National Historical Park

Schodack Island State Park

Schoharie Crossing State Historic Site

Sterling Forest State Park

Stewart State Forest

Stockport Flats

Stony Kill Farm and Environmental Education Center

Teatown Lake Reservation

Thompsons Lake State Park

Ward Pound Ridge Reservation

Washington County Grasslands Wildlife Management Area

Westmoreland Sanctuary

Adirondack Interpretive Center

Ausable Marsh Wildlife Management Area

Chaumont Barrens Preserve

Coon Mountain Nature Preserve

Crown Point State Historic Site

Ferd's Bog (Pigeon Lake Wilderness)

Forked Lake Campground

Nicks Lake Campground

Paul Smith's College Visitor Interpretive Center

Perch River Wildlife Management Area

Point Au Roche State Park

Robert Moses State Park

Silver Lake Bog Preserve

The Wild Center

Upper and Lower Lakes Wildlife Management Area

Wellesley Island State Park

Baltimore Woods Nature Center

Beaver Lake Nature Center

Bowman Lake State Park

Braddock Bay Wildlife Management Area

Buttermilk Falls State Park

Chenango Valley State Park

Conesus Inlet Fish and Wildlife Management Area

Derby Hill Bird Observatory

Finger Lakes National Forest

Genesee Country Nature Center

Great Swamp Conservancy

Green Lakes State Park

Labrador Hollow Unique Area

Lime Hollow Center for Environment and Culture

Mendon Ponds Park

Montezuma Wetlands Complex

Nelson Swamp Unique Area

Pharsalia Wildlife Management Area

Rogers Environmental Education Center

Rome Sand Plains Resource Management Area

Sapsucker Woods Sanctuary

Salmon River Fish Hatchery

Selkirk Shores State Park

Utica Marsh Wildlife Management Area

Whitney Point Multiple Use Area

Allegany State Park

Audubon Community Nature Center

Buckhorn Island State Park

Iroquois National Wildlife Refuge, Tonawanda and Oak Orchard Wildlife Management Area

Joseph Davis State Park

Letchworth State Park

Moss Lake Preserve

Niagara Falls State Park

Pfeiffer Nature Center

Reinstein Woods Nature Preserve and Environmental Education Center

Roger Tory Peterson Institute of Natural History

Tifft Nature Preserve

Tillman Road Wildlife Management Area

Zoar Valley Multiple Use Area

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