§ 49-0205. Comprehensive inventory of lands having statewide or regional

significance.

1. In order to help provide a basis for a strategy for the
preservation of land resources in the state and the preparation of the
state land acquisition plan, the department and the office shall prepare
a comprehensive inventory of protected and unprotected resources having
statewide or regional environmental, historic, cultural or recreational
significance. Such inventory shall include the following:

a. open space, forest land and park land owned by federal, state and
local governmental entities including lands containing old-growth forest
dedicated to the state nature and historical preserve pursuant to
article forty-five of this chapter;

b. forest land in private ownership under the terms of section four
hundred eighty-a of the real property tax law;

c. wetlands protected by articles twenty-four and twenty-five of this
chapter;

d. agricultural areas, including agricultural districts created
pursuant to article twenty-five-AA of the agriculture and markets law as
recommended by the commissioner of agriculture and markets;

e. water resources, including wild, scenic and recreational rivers,
streams and aquifer recharge areas protected by article fifteen of this
chapter;

f. marine and other coastal resources, including coastal erosion
hazard areas protected by article thirty-four of this chapter;

g. open space lands, forest lands and park lands dedicated by other
than governmental entities to ecological, wildlife management, forest
management or recreational purposes; and

h. lands which possess statewide or regional significance for
historic, cultural, ecological, open space, outdoor recreation, resource
protection or wildlife management purposes, including the purpose of
restoring extirpated species, and preserving old-growth forests.

2. Such inventory, in such segments and such form as may be readily
available at any given time, shall be available to the regional land
acquisition advisory committees and other members of the public.