Great Baehre Swamp is a New York state wetland located inside the Town of Amherst in Erie County, New York , United States. The area is characterized as a silver maple - ash swamp of 270 acres (1.1 km ), much of which is protected by conservation areas owned by the town and New York State.
6-473: Great Swamp may refer to several places: United States [ edit ] Great Baehre Swamp , New York Great Black Swamp , Ohio Great Cypress Swamp , Delaware and Maryland Great Dismal Swamp , Virginia and North Carolina Great Swamp (New York) , New York Great Swamp Fight , southern Rhode Island Great Swamp Brook , New Jersey Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge , New Jersey Great Swamp,
12-772: A former wetland in Massachusetts, part of which is now the Alewife Brook Reservation New Zealand [ edit ] Great Moss Swamp [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Great_Swamp&oldid=1106114622 " Category : Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
18-424: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Great Baehre Swamp The wetlands are a minute remnant of the former Glacial Lake Tonawanda that dominated this region 11,000 years ago. Hopkins Road was originally constructed as a corduroy road in the early 19th century due to the boggy nature of the soil. Much of the swamp is protected and accessible to
24-576: The 1960s; it was remediated and repurposed as parkland in 1989. Billy Wilson Park provides boardwalks and trails for viewing nature within Amherst, which is a well-developed suburb of Buffalo . Conservation of the wetlands is also intended to help control flooding. The entrance to Billy Wilson Park is located on Hopkins Road north of the intersection with Klein Road in Amherst. The park has been adapted to provide assistance to people with disabilities. The park
30-459: The public. Portions of the southern and eastern boundary of the conservation area are privately owned and permission should be sought prior to visiting these areas. Billy Wilson Park, a 48-acre (19 ha) park owned and operated by the Town of Amherst, is adjacent to the western portion of the swamp. A portion of the park was formerly a small municipal dump for the Town of Amherst from the 1920s to
36-600: Was formerly known as Margaret Louise Park prior to being renamed in 2014 for Army Staff Sgt. William "Billy" Wilson III, who was killed in Afghanistan in 2012. The Great Baehre Swamp Wildlife Management Area is a 270-acre (110 ha) state wildlife management area operated by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC). The majority of the property (260 acres [110 ha]) protects shrub swamp and emergent wetlands, with
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