Louise Kerr Wildlife Management Area

While cloudy, it was mild out hiking around at the Louise Kerr Wildlife Management Area until around dusk.

A few years after the controlled burn on Blodgett Hill you can still see the burn marks and the land brought back into balance with fire.

Pitch pines above with scrub oaks below. Reminds one a lot of the Albany Pine Bush.

Over the past year, they have been removing additional white pine trees to improve the Pitch Pine - Scrub Oak habitat on Blodgett Hill.

In recent years, through mechanical removal and burning, they have started to restore the Pitch Pine - Scrub Oak ecosystem on the top of Blodgett Hill in Coeymans. The results have been somewhat mixed but are quite stunning. It is thought as the climate warms, these higher elevations may become refuges for species no longer able to survive in the warmer Albany Pine Bush.