H. Rose Schneider reports in The Altamont Enterprise that the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation is adding 38 acres of young forest habitat to the Margaret Burke Wildlife Management Area in Knox in southern Albany County. The golden-winged warbler, the white-tailed deer, the New England cottontail, and the wild turkey all live in young forests, which are defined as ten-years-old or less. Now of the 244.4 acres of preserved land in Knox, 16 percent of the land is young forest, 11 percent is grasslands, 5 percent is shrublands, 5 percent is wetlands, and 58 percent is maintained as mature forests. The DEC is contacting loggers to clear-cut certain areas to start the young forests. Read the full story in The Altamont Enterprise.