A year and a half after paddling through posted land connecting publicly owned waterways, Adirondack Explorer Editor Phil Brown has been sued for trespass by the private landowners, namely the Brandreth Park Association and the Friends of Thayer Lake.

The case could clarify the public's right to paddle on waterways that pass through private land and resolve questions that the landowners say were left unanswered in a landmark Court of Appeals decision in 1998. READ MORE

PETE NYE is best known as the guy who brought the bald eagle back to New York State. The majestic raptor had stopped producing eaglets because the eggs were collapsing during incubation due to a thinning of the shells caused by the pesticide DDT. Beginning in 1976, Nye led an unprecedented experiment to capture juvenile bald eagles from other states and release them in New York, hoping they'd return here to breed. Nye wasn't sure if it would
work, but the program was a resounding success. READ MORE

Dan Ladd wrote the book on Adirondack deer hunting (or one of them, anyway), and he runs a website called ADKHunter that receives comments from hundreds of hunters. The consensus among Ladd, his hunting pals, and his correspondents is that the population of white-tailed deer is in decline in the Adirondack Park. READ MORE

Conservation advocates are vowing to push state and local government leaders in the coming year to regulate development on ridges, slopes, and hilltops in the Adirondacks.

The Adirondack Council and other environmental groups complain that communities such as Lake George, Keene Valley, and Lake Placid are seeing their scenic beauty diminished by unsightly upland development. READ MORE

Perhaps you've heard of Richard Louv's best-selling book Last Child in the Woods, in which he laments that modern kids grow up cut off from the natural world.
Makes you wonder who that last child in the woods will be.

I think I found him. His name is Eli Bickford. He's twelve years old. And he's from Brooklyn.

Though he lives in the city, he spends every summer at his family's cabin in Keene Valley. When he was seven, he climbed his first High Peak (Nippletop). The next summer he climbed ten more of the High Peaks. By age eleven, he had polished off all forty-six. READ MORE