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August 20, 2012
Critics say political compromises in the 1970s have led to a degradation of waterfront and water quality in the Adirondacks. By Brian Mann On a gray, rain-swept morning, environmental activist Peter Bauer points to the Lake George shoreline just outside the hamlet of…
August 20, 2012
After years of anticipation, DEC signs deal to acquire former Finch, Pruyn lands over the next five years. By Phil Brown After five years of anticipation, the deal is signed: over the next five years, New York State will purchase sixty-five thousand acres of…
June 21, 2012
By Tom Woodman In the central Champlain Valley, an area that the Adirondack visionary Gary Randorf refers to as the Adirondack coast, communities are building a trail system with a whole different vibe than the trails of the nearby High Peaks. Where the trails in the wild heart of the Adirondack Forest Preserve can…
June 21, 2012
Writer Sue Bibeau takes on the 90-Miler canoe and kayak race with boatbuilder Allison Warner.
June 21, 2012
State tries to curb illegal trade in bear paws and gall bladders. North Country Taxidermy in Keene does a steady business in mounted deer heads, stuffed mammals, skulls, horns, and fur rugs and blankets. Black-bear gall bladders are a lesser-known commodity. Bud Piserchia, who owns the shop, acquires as many as 150 gall bladders during…
June 21, 2012
Author discovers a hidden treasure not far from her hometown. By Lisa Densmore I grew up in Saranac Lake and have been hiking in the Adirondacks for much of the last four decades. However, until this spring, I had not hiked up Jay Mountain, actually Jay Mountains, plural. My hiking calendar always seemed to omit…
June 21, 2012
Environmentalists and local leaders agree that the privately owned backcountry should be protected—but how? By Phil Brown Nearly forty years have passed since Governor Nelson Rockefeller, while signing a law regulating development in the Adirondack Park, declared to the reporters and conservationists in the room, “The Adirondacks are preserved forever.” He had some reason for…
April 19, 2012
By Tom Woodman Think back on a favorite excursion in the Adirondack wilderness, and if you were lucky a forest ranger played a cameo role. Maybe you encountered him on the trail and he filled you in on the conditions farther on. Or maybe she was advising hikers at a busy trailhead on the right…
April 19, 2012
Should the state bill careless backcountry users for searches? By Kelly de la Rocha When Stephen Mastaitis of Saratoga Springs started a winter hike up Mount Marcy, he never dreamed he’d be coming back down in a helicopter. The fifty-eight-year-old lawyer and three others began the day hike bright and early on a February morning,…
April 19, 2012
By Michael Virtanen On a mostly sunny Monday with the blue-black water on the quiet bay rippling lightly and glistening, my wife got the hang of a new sport in roughly the time it took to push off from the dock, brace her paddle shaft across the eleven-foot board for balance, and stand up. Outfitted…