State Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Joe Martens has also taken part in activities to promote this region, including the Boreas Ponds trip.

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Tom Dargie, who runs Boreas Ecology argues that the 1972 study was based was a different type of peatland which is much wetter, and therefore inappropriate for calculating impacts on the Lewis peatlands.

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The state Department of Environmental Conservation lists 10 segments of waterways where state-licensed guides need whitewater certification to take clients, including parts of the Indian, Hudson, Raquette, Moose, Schroon, Boreas, Black and Salmon rivers and Cattaraugus Creek.

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In September, Cuomo and other top state officials took part in a press conference with writers from around the state at Boreas Ponds in the central Adirondacks, where writers and government officials spent an afternoon paddling and fishing.

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