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Wildlife Area Attractions In Long Island

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Long Island is a densely populated island off the East Coast of the United States, beginning at New York Harbor approximately 0.35 miles from Manhattan Island and extending eastward into the Atlantic Ocean. The island comprises four counties in the U.S. state of New York. Kings and Queens Counties and Nassau County share the western third of the island, while Suffolk County occupies the eastern two-thirds. More than half of New York City's residents now live on Long Island, in Brooklyn and Queens. However, many people in the New York metropolitan area colloquially use the term Long Island to refer exclusively to Nassau and Suffolk Counties, which are m...
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  • 3. Bayard Cutting Arboretum Great River
    Bayard Cutting Arboretum State Park is a 691-acre state park located in the hamlet of Great River, New York, on Long Island. The park includes an arboretum designed by Frederick Law Olmsted for William Bayard Cutting in 1886, as well as a mansion designed by Charles C. Haight. Cutting purchased the property in 1881.The house at the heart of the park, Westbrook, is modeled on a Tudor-style English country house. The interior of the 60-room mansion features large pieces of oak furniture, stained-glass windows, and imported fireplaces. Views of the Connetquot River can be seen from across the open lawn.On June 18, 1936, the Long Island State Park Commission was gifted 200 acres of the Cutting estate for use as an arboretum by Mrs. Bayard James, daughter of William Cutting, with the stipulatio...
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  • 4. Holtsville Ecology Site Holtsville
    Holtsville is a hamlet and census-designated place in Suffolk County, New York, United States. The population was 19,714 at the 2010 census.Holtsville is mainly in the Town of Brookhaven, while the southwest portion is in the Town of Islip. An IRS Processing Center is located in Holtsville.
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  • 5. Sailors Haven Visitor Center Fire Island
    This is a list of Confederate monuments and memorials that were established as public displays and symbols of the Confederate States of America , Confederate leaders, or Confederate soldiers of the American Civil War. Part of the commemoration of the American Civil War, these symbols include monuments and statues, flags, holidays and other observances, and the names of schools, roads, parks, bridges, counties, cities, lakes, dams, military bases, and other public works.Monuments and memorials are listed below alphabetically by state, and by city within each state. States not listed have no known qualifying items for the list. For monuments and memorials which have been removed, consult Removal of Confederate monuments and memorials. Some but by no means all are included below. This list do...
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  • 6. Cold Spring Harbor Fish Hatchery & Aquarium Cold Spring Harbor
    Cold Spring Harbor is a hamlet and census-designated place in the town of Huntington, Suffolk County, New York, on the North Shore of Long Island. As of the 2010 United States Census, the CDP population was 5,070.
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  • 7. Norman J. Levy Park & Preserve Merrick
    Norman Levy Park and Preserve is a man-made park on the South Shore of Long Island in Merrick, New York. The park is situated on a hill and has excellent views of the Manhattan skyline and Long Island. Norman Levy Park and Preserve was once a landfill but was transformed to a park space in 2000. The park is the highest point on Long Island's South Shore, and has an average altitude of around 120 feet. From this highest point, the New York City Skyline, Jones Beach, the Oceanside landfill, and more. The park has many groomed trails which take visitors to the top of the hill. Along the trails, there are many exercise stations for the more active visitors. For a more leisurely visit, one can take a tour around the park with one of the park rangers. This tour includes trip to the pier which ex...
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  • 10. Elizabeth A. Morton National Wildlife Refuge Noyack
    The Elizabeth A. Morton National Wildlife Refuge is a 187-acre National Wildlife Refuge in Noyack, New York. Much of the refuge is situated on a peninsula surrounded by Noyack and Little Peconic bays. The refuge is managed by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service as part of the Long Island National Wildlife Refuge Complex. The refuge was established December 27, 1954, through a donation by the Morton family. It encompasses diverse habitats including bay beach, a brackish pond, a freshwater pond, kettle holes, tidal flats, salt marsh, freshwater marsh, shrub, grasslands, maritime oak forest, and red cedar. The refuge's diversity is critical to Long Island wildlife. The north/south orientation of the refuge's peninsula creates important habitat for shorebirds, raptors and songbirds as ...
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  • 11. Gardiner County Park Bay Shore
    Julia Gardiner Tyler was the second wife of John Tyler, who was the tenth President of the United States, and served as the First Lady of the United States from June 26, 1844, to March 4, 1845.
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  • 12. Long Island Game Farm Wildlife Park & Children's Zoo Manorville
    The Long Island Game Farm, situated on Chapman Boulevard in Manorville, New York, was established in 1970 by Stanley Novak. Stanley Novak, his wife Diane and daughters Melinda and Susan built the zoo on 29 acres . Today the Game Farm is home to over 200 animals. For many people, visiting the game farm is a yearly tradition. The Long Island Game Farm is one of the oldest and most well-known establishments in Manorville, and has been one of the town's major landmarks since its opening. 2019 will mark it’s 50th season as the largest combined children’s zoo and wildlife park on Long Island.
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  • 14. Bailey Arboretum Locust Valley
    Bailey Arboretum is a 42-acre arboretum located in Lattingtown, New York, a small village on the North Shore of Long Island. It opened to the public on Aug. 5, 1969 after being donated to Nassau County in 1968 by the heirs of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bailey. Through an agreement with the Village of Lattingtown, admission to the arboretum was limited to 200 people at any one time.The arboretum was created by financier Frank Bailey, who used many rare trees and plantings. He purchased the property between 1911/1912 from Joseph R. Clark, a former president of the Board of Aldermen of Brooklyn. Some of the first staff he hired after the purchase of the property was a gardener and gardening assistants. Bailey selected the trees and shrubs for the property, directed where to plant them, trimmed and pr...
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