Talk:Camel's Hump Natural Area

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What’s the size of the Natural Area?

There is conflicting information regarding the size of Camel's Hump Natural Area. The Vermont Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation claims that the Natural Area covers 7,404 acres (2,996 ha),^[1] while the Long Range Management Plan for the Camel's Hump Management Unit defines the Natural Area to be all lands in Camel's Hump State Park above 2,800 feet (850 m) elevation, an area that reportedly consists of 1,700 acres (690 ha).^[2] The Vermont Agency of Natural Resources (ANR) subdivides the Natural Area into four non-overlapping components: 1) the original Natural Area (created in 1965), 2) all state lands in Camel's Hump Forest Reserve above 2,500 feet (760 m) (specified by law in 1969), 3) all land in the Gleason Brook watershed above 900 feet (270 m) (also specified by law in 1969), and 4) all land in the Ecological Protection Zone of Phen Basin (acquired by the state in 1997):^[3]


Object ID	Protected area	Date established	Calculated area
Object ID	Protected area	Date established	acres	ha
42	Original Camel's Hump Natural Area	1965	1,086	439
43	Camel's Hump Forest Reserve above 2,500 feet (760 m)	1969	3,320	1,340
41	Gleason Brook watershed above 900 feet (270 m)	1969	1,303	527
40	Ecological Protection Zone, Phen Basin	1997	2,142	867
Total:			7,851	3,177

The areas listed in the table were computed from the GPS coordinate boundaries provided by the ANR. The computation is verifiable but perhaps not easily so. Comments welcome. Tom Scavo (talk) 19:59, 13 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ "Vermont Natural Areas". Vermont Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation. Retrieved 21 January 2020.
^ "Camel's Hump Management Unit: Long Range Management Plan" (PDF). State of Vermont. October 2017. p. 50. Retrieved 21 January 2020.
^ "Vermont Designated Natural Areas". Vermont Open Geodata Portal. Vermont Agency of Natural Resources. Retrieved 4 March 2020.

[CHNA-1] "Vermont Natural Areas". Vermont Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation. Retrieved 21 January 2020.

[CHMU_2017-2] "Camel's Hump Management Unit: Long Range Management Plan" (PDF). State of Vermont. October 2017. p. 50. Retrieved 21 January 2020.

[VTANR::vermont-designated-natural-areas-3] "Vermont Designated Natural Areas". Vermont Open Geodata Portal. Vermont Agency of Natural Resources. Retrieved 4 March 2020.

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