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Black Pond Wildlife Management Area

New York state wildlife management area

Field	Value
name	Black Pond Wildlife Management Area
El Dorado Beach Preserve
iucn_category	IV
photo	Black_Pond_NY.jpg
photo_alt	Aerial photograph of a lakeshore, a sandy barrier beach, and a pond behind it; the photograph appears to have been taken in summer, since the land around the pond is green with foliage. There are high, forested sand dunes on the barrier beach.
photo_caption	Aerial photograph looking southeast across the Lake Ontario shoreline to Black Pond. Excepting Cape Cod, the forested dunes of the barrier beach are the highest in the northeast United States.
map	USA New York
map_caption	U.S. state of New York
map_alt	Map. Shows New York State and bordering regions of other states and of Ontario Province in Canada.
label	Black Pond WMA
label_position	right
location	Jefferson County, New York
nearest_city	Watertown, New York
coordinates
area	526 acres
visitation_num	8165
visitation_year	2009
governing_body	N.Y. DEC

El Dorado Beach Preserve

Black Pond Wildlife Management Area is a 526 acre New York State Wildlife Management Area (WMA) that lies on the eastern shore of Lake Ontario, and at the northern limit of an unusual region of sandy barrier beaches and lagoons. Much of the barrier beach in Black Pond WMA has forested sand dunes that are about 60 ft high; these are the highest sand dunes in the northeast United States excepting Cape Cod. Immediately north of the WMA is the 360 acre El Dorado Beach Preserve, which is a bird refuge owned by The Nature Conservancy. North of the outlet from Black Pond to Lake Ontario, the shoreline is a weathered, flat bedrock shelf that is "calcareous" instead of sandy.

Photograph of a pond with still water; across the pond are aquatic plants and trees with autumn colors. — Southern leg of Black Pond in October

From the parking lot at road's end, the WMA has an accessible 0.4 mi trail and boardwalk that reaches through the interior wetlands to the sandy beach on Lake Ontario. From the terminus of the boardwalk, it is possible to walk south along the beach for about 8 mi without getting wet feet. This beach route passes out of the WMA, past the beachfront residences of Jefferson Park, through Southwick Beach State Park, and into the sizable Lakeview Wildlife Management Area. Walking north along the beach leads onto the El Dorado Beach Preserve; a hiking trail and bird-watching blinds at the Beach Preserve are normally reached by Grandjean Road, which is north of Black Pond.

Black Pond WMA, with Lakeview WMA, Deer Creek Marsh WMA, and the Sandy Pond Beach Unique Area, comprise the Eastern Lake Ontario Marshes Bird Conservation Area. The Nature Conservancy's adjacent El Dorado Beach Preserve extends this bird conservation area. Black Pond WMA, Southwick Beach State Park, Lakeview WMA, Sandy Pond Beach Natural Area, and Deer Creek Marsh WMA have been included in a New York Natural Heritage Area, the "Eastern Lake Ontario Barrier Beach and Wetland Complex".

The WMA and the Beach Preserve are in the Town of Ellisburg in Jefferson County.

References

(January 2010). "Monitoring Recreational Use in the Eastern Lake Ontario Dune and Wetland Area".
"Black Pond Wildlife Management Area Overview". New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.
"El Dorado Trail". New York Sea Grant.
"Central & Western: El Dorado Beach Preserve". The Nature Conservancy.
"Black Pond". [[Sea grant colleges.
(2007). "Sand, Wind, & Water: A recreational guide to Eastern Lake Ontario's dunes and wetlands". New York Sea Grant.
"El Dorado". New York Sea Grant.
"Eastern Lake Ontario Marshes Bird Conservation Area". New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.
"El Dorado Nature Preserve: A Migratory Bird Rest Stop". The Nature Conservancy.
"Natural Heritage Area Designation for Eastern Lake Ontario Barrier Beach and Wetland Complex". New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.

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