Section 49-0205. Comprehensive inventory of lands having statewide or regional significance

1.  In  order  to  help  provide  a  basis  for  a  strategy  for  the
  preservation of land resources in the state and the preparation  of  the
  state land acquisition plan, the department and the office shall prepare
  a  comprehensive inventory of protected and unprotected resources having
  statewide or regional environmental, historic, cultural or  recreational
  significance. Such inventory shall include the following:
    a.  open  space, forest land and park land owned by federal, state and
  local governmental entities including lands containing old-growth forest
  dedicated to the  state  nature  and  historical  preserve  pursuant  to
  article forty-five of this chapter;
    b.  forest  land  in private ownership under the terms of section four
  hundred eighty-a of the real property tax law;
    c. wetlands protected by articles twenty-four and twenty-five of  this
  chapter;
    d.   agricultural  areas,  including  agricultural  districts  created
  pursuant to article twenty-five-AA of the agriculture and markets law as
  recommended by the commissioner of agriculture and markets;
    e. water resources, including wild, scenic  and  recreational  rivers,
  streams  and aquifer recharge areas protected by article fifteen of this
  chapter;
    f. marine and  other  coastal  resources,  including  coastal  erosion
  hazard areas protected by article thirty-four of this chapter;
    g.  open  space  lands, forest lands and park lands dedicated by other
  than governmental entities to ecological,  wildlife  management,  forest
  management or recreational purposes; and
    h.   lands  which  possess  statewide  or  regional  significance  for
  historic, cultural, ecological, open space, outdoor recreation, resource
  protection or wildlife management purposes,  including  the  purpose  of
  restoring extirpated species, and preserving old-growth forests.
    2.  Such  inventory,  in such segments and such form as may be readily
  available at any given time, shall be available  to  the  regional  land
  acquisition advisory committees and other members of the public.