Osgood Pond is a five hundred acre lake in the hamlet of Paul Smiths, Town of Brighton,

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. It is the site of

White Pine Camp White Pine Camp is an Adirondack Great Camp on Osgood Pond in Paul Smiths, New York. It served as the Summer White House for US President Calvin Coolidge from July 7 through September 18, 1926. The camp, built on for New York businessman Ar ...

, the Summer White House of President

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, and of the historic

Northbrook Lodge Northbrook Lodge on Osgood Pond is a historic camp located within the Adirondack Forest Preserve in Paul Smiths in Franklin County, New York. The camp complex was built by noted great camp builder Benjamin A. Muncil for Canadian Senator Wilf ...

, listed on the

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in 2014. Both were built by Benjamin A. Muncil. Osgood pond is mesotrophic and circumneutral. It has adequate pH buffering capacity and therefore has low sensitivity to

acid rain Acid rain is rain or any other form of Precipitation (meteorology), precipitation that is unusually acidic, meaning that it has elevated levels of hydrogen ions (low pH). Most water, including drinking water, has a neutral pH that exists b ...

deposition. Due to its close proximity to State Route 30 it is moderately impacted by

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pollution, with a total chloride concentration of 9.7 mg/L.

Natural History

Fish species found in Osgood Pond include

largemouth bass The largemouth bass (''Micropterus nigricans'') is a carnivorous, freshwater fish, freshwater, ray-finned fish in the Centrarchidae (sunfish) family, native to the eastern United States, eastern and central United States, southeastern Canada an ...

northern pike The northern pike (''Esox lucius'') is a species of carnivorous fish of the genus ''Esox'' (pikes). They are commonly found in brackish water, moderately salty and fresh waters of the Northern Hemisphere (''i.e.'' holarctic in distribution). T ...

, and

brook trout The brook trout (''Salvelinus fontinalis'') is a species of freshwater fish in the char genus ''Salvelinus'' of the salmon family Salmonidae native to Eastern North America in the United States and Canada. Two ecological forms of brook trout h ...

. The lake is a popular location for ice fishing in the winter.

Invasive Species

Two invasive snail species are found in Osgood Pond, the Chinese mystery snail and the banded mystery snail.Schwartzberg, E.G., Firkins, T., Lloyd, C., Aveson, S., Bly, P., Vara, C., Privee, M.(2020). 2020 Adirondack AIS Surveys. Adirondack Research, Saranac Lake, NY No invasive plant species or zooplankton species have been detected in the lake.

References

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