Onondaga Lake Watershed
By Aiden #28 and Xzavier #23
Watershed
A watershed is an area or ridge of land that separates waters flowing to different rivers, basins, or seas.
About the Onondaga Lake watershed
The Onondaga Lake watershed covers 285 square miles in Onondaga and Cortland counties in central New York. For more information about Onondaga Lake, visit DEC's
Wildlife around and in the Onondaga Lake watershed
There are a varity of fish inside the lake watershed such as Atlantic salmon,american eel,trout,white fish, rare Lake sturgeon, and burbot.
There are a ton of trees and swamps around the watershed such as the cedar swamp,maple and ash swamp,Inland salt marsh. Animals around are beavers,rattle snakes,deer,elk,and bison