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When Maureen Clark and her husband, Paul Madden, volunteered to have trail cameras installed on their Forestport property for wildlife monitoring, they weren’t sure what to expect. The images later revealed a variety of species—black bear, deer, fox and porcupine—traveling across the southern Black River Valley.

The couple’s property falls within a critical location for preserving wildlife habitat, said Alissa Fadden, Wildlife Connectivity Project Manager for the Adirondack Chapter of the Nature Conservancy, in Keene Valley.

The six-million-acre Adirondack Park is on the eastern side of the valley and the 1.2-million-acre Tug Hill region lies along the western edge. This well-documented passageway, called the Black River Valley Wildlife Corridor, allows a large and

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