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Gwen is an award-winning journalist covering environmental policy for the Explorer since January 2020. She is a member of the Legislative Correspondents Association of New York. Gwen has worked at various news outlets since 2015. She has a master's degree in journalism from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. Contact her at (518) 524-2902 or [email protected]. Sign up for Gwen’s newsletter here.
By Gwendolyn Craig
December 4, 2020
The DEC treated about 2,500 hemlock trees around 138 acres near Lake George in Washington County for the invasive hemlock woolly adelgid.
By Gwendolyn Craig
December 3, 2020
The Masten House has been sold for $1 million and will be a private residence, ruling out any plans for a High Peaks visitors center.
By Gwendolyn Craig
November 27, 2020
Lake George actually had a confirmed harmful algal bloom at the end of October, in addition to the ones in November.
By Gwendolyn Craig
November 20, 2020
Bones tell park's Revolution story, and raise questions about protections
By Gwendolyn Craig
November 16, 2020
Newly protected property in Warren County will help fight climate change and help link Saratoga Springs to the Adirondacks.
By Gwendolyn Craig
November 13, 2020
Fort Drum has formed a stakeholder group to look at six possible locations, some in the Adirondacks, for air- and land-based training.
By Gwendolyn Craig
November 12, 2020
Surveyors are finding more areas along Lake George have the invasive bug that kills hemlocks, and treatment options, including the release of a non-native predator beetle, have begun.
By Gwendolyn Craig
November 10, 2020
Photographer Ed Burke shares trail camera footage of moose in Saratoga County on the southern edge of the Adirondacks.
By Gwendolyn Craig
November 6, 2020
A bug the size of a ground pepper flake is killing these hemlocks—a species accounting for nearly 80% of the trees in the lake’s watershed.
By Gwendolyn Craig
November 5, 2020
Adirondack camp's future, cell tower, timber harvesting and more, are up for public comment to the Adirondack Park Agency.