Talk:Camel's Hump Natural Area

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 7404 acre, 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 2800 feet elevation, an area that reportedly consists of 1700 acre. 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 2500 feet (specified by law in 1969), 3) all land in the Gleason Brook watershed above 900 feet (also specified by law in 1969), and 4) all land in the Ecological Protection Zone of Phen Basin (acquired by the state in 1997):

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)