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Bontecou Lake, also known as Tamarack Swamp, is a shallow, man-made bifurcation lake in the towns of Stanford and Washington, in Dutchess County, New York, less than from the Village of Millbrook.[1]

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  1. 29 relations: American Angus, Ancestry.com, Anseriformes, Cackling goose, Canada goose, Conservation easement, Dam, Drainage divide, Dutchess County, New York, Eastern bluebird, Embankment dam, Fish kill, Frederic H. Bontecou, Galactic plane, Great blue heron, Hurricane Floyd, Lake bifurcation, Larix laricina, Milky Way, Millbrook, New York, Nature reserve, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, Poughkeepsie Journal, Reservoir, Scenic Hudson, Stanford, New York, Ten Mile River (Housatonic River tributary), Wappinger Creek, Washington, New York.

  2. Bifurcation lakes

American Angus

The American Angus is an American breed of beef cattle.

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Ancestry.com

Ancestry.com LLC is an American genealogy company based in Lehi, Utah.

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Anseriformes

Anseriformes is an order of birds also known as waterfowl that comprises about 180 living species of birds in three families: Anhimidae (three species of screamers), Anseranatidae (the magpie goose), and Anatidae, the largest family, which includes over 170 species of waterfowl, among them the ducks, geese, and swans.

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Cackling goose

The cackling goose (Branta hutchinsii) is a species of goose found in North America and East Asia.

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Canada goose

The Canada goose (Branta canadensis), sometimes called Canadian goose, is a large wild goose with a black head and neck, white cheeks, white under its chin, and a brown body.

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Conservation easement

In the United States, a conservation easement (also called conservation covenant, conservation restriction or conservation servitude) is a power invested in a qualified land conservation organization called a "land trust", or a governmental (municipal, county, state or federal) entity to constrain, as to a specified land area, the exercise of rights otherwise held by a landowner so as to achieve certain conservation purposes.

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Dam

A dam is a barrier that stops or restricts the flow of surface water or underground streams.

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Drainage divide

A drainage divide, water divide, ridgeline, watershed, water parting or height of land is elevated terrain that separates neighboring drainage basins.

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Dutchess County, New York

Dutchess County is a county in the U.S. state of New York.

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Eastern bluebird

The eastern bluebird (Sialia sialis) is a small North American migratory thrush found in open woodlands, farmlands, and orchards.

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Embankment dam

An embankment dam is a large artificial dam.

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Fish kill

The term fish kill, known also as fish die-off, refers to a localized die-off of fish populations which may also be associated with more generalized mortality of aquatic life.

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Frederic H. Bontecou

Frederic Holdrege Bontecou (November 30, 1893 – September 17, 1959) was an American farmer and politician from New York.

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Galactic plane

The galactic plane is the plane on which the majority of a disk-shaped galaxy's mass lies.

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Great blue heron

The great blue heron (Ardea herodias) is a large wading bird in the heron family Ardeidae, common near the shores of open water and in wetlands over most of North and Central America, as well as far northwestern South America, the Caribbean and the Galápagos Islands.

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Hurricane Floyd

Hurricane Floyd was a very powerful Cape Verde hurricane which struck the Bahamas and the East Coast of the United States.

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Lake bifurcation

A lake bifurcation occurs when a lake (a bifurcating lake) has outflows into two different drainage basins. Bontecou Lake and lake bifurcation are bifurcation lakes.

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Larix laricina

Larix laricina, commonly known as the tamarack, hackmatack, eastern larch, black larch, red larch, or American larch, is a species of larch native to Canada, from eastern Yukon and Inuvik, Northwest Territories east to Newfoundland, and also south into the upper northeastern United States from Minnesota to Cranesville Swamp, West Virginia; there is also an isolated population in central Alaska.

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Milky Way

The Milky Way is the galaxy that includes the Solar System, with the name describing the galaxy's appearance from Earth: a hazy band of light seen in the night sky formed from stars that cannot be individually distinguished by the naked eye.

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Millbrook, New York

Millbrook is a village in Dutchess County, New York, United States.

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Nature reserve

A nature reserve (also known as a wildlife refuge, wildlife sanctuary, biosphere reserve or bioreserve, natural or nature preserve, or nature conservation area) is a protected area of importance for flora, fauna, funga, or features of geological or other special interest, which is reserved and managed for purposes of conservation and to provide special opportunities for study or research.

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New York State Department of Environmental Conservation

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (informally referred to as NYSDEC, DEC, EnCon or NYSENCON) is a department of New York state government.

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Poughkeepsie Journal

The Poughkeepsie Journal is a newspaper based in Poughkeepsie, New York, and owned by Gannett, which bought the paper in 1977.

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Reservoir

A reservoir is an enlarged lake behind a dam, usually built to store fresh water, often doubling for hydroelectric power generation.

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Scenic Hudson

Scenic Hudson is a non-profit environmental organization in New York that was founded in 1963 to oppose a hydro-electric power project in New York.

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Stanford, New York

Stanford is a town in the north-central part of Dutchess County, New York, United States.

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Ten Mile River (Housatonic River tributary)

The Ten Mile River (Tenmile River on federal maps) is a U.S. Geological Survey.

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Wappinger Creek

Wappinger Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey.

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Washington, New York

Washington is a town in Dutchess County, New York, United States.

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See also

Bifurcation lakes

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bontecou_Lake