Robert Moses State Park (Thousand Islands) Robert Moses State Park (Thousand Islands) Robert Moses State Park - Thousand Islands is a state park located on Barnhart Island in the Saint Lawrence River and the adjacent mainland in the Town of Massena in St. Lawrence County, New York. The park is north of the Village of Massena, near the Canada–US border. The park is named after former New York Parks Commissioner Robert Moses, who created many of the state parks in New York. It is one of two state parks in New York to bear his name. The other, Robert Moses State Park - Long Island, is
Thousand Islands (Cocoa Beach) Several areas of the Thousand Islands were filled but not fully developed, leaving large areas of uplands. During the late 1960s Brevard County Mosquito Control began dredging the Thousand Islands south of Minutemen Causeway, resulting in conversion of salt marsh to upland dredge spoil with the state-owned C-34 impoundment. Native wetlands are dominated by red, black, and white mangroves. Succulent marsh contains saltwort, annual glasswort, perennial glasswort, sea blight, and shoreline seapurslane. The transition zone between salt marsh and upland is dominated by bushy seaside oxeye ("Borrichia frutescens" (L.) DC.) and buttonwood ("Conocarpus erectus" L.). Transition areas dominated by graminoid