New DEC chief honors trans ranger in first Adirondack stop
By Zachary Matson
New DEC commissioner honors beloved ranger who died in climbing accident in first appearance in the Adirondacks
Zachary Matson
Zachary Matson has been an environmental reporter for the Explorer since October 2021. He is focused on the many issues impacting water and the people, plants and wildlife that rely on it in the Adirondack Park. Zach worked at daily newspapers in Missouri, Arizona and New York for nearly a decade, most recently as the education reporter at the Daily Gazette in Schenectady. He lives in Saranac with his family.
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Hornbeck Boats branches out to the Land of 10,000 Lakes
By Zachary Matson
Hornbeck Boats, the maker of the iconic Adirondack pack boat, is expanding with a new retail store in Minneapolis opening this month
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St. Armand to buy Paul Smith’s College land that holds town’s water supply
By Zachary Matson
Long history of divided ownership over Bloomingdale water supply could wrap for $300,000
St. Regis Mohawk Tribe leads effort to curb road salt pollution
By Zachary Matson
New technology includes outfitting snow removal trucks with cameras and sensors to track salt use and optimize operations
Salt success: How Lake Placid rallied to save Mirror Lake
By Zachary Matson
Community's efforts to reduce salt use, divert runoff has helped bring a key Adirondack lake back from the brink
State to offer $80 million for flood resiliency projects
By Zachary Matson
The latest grants from $4.2 billion green bond could target flood mitigation projects for Ausable, Boquet rivers.
Results are in for milfoil-killing herbicide used in Adirondack lakes
By Zachary Matson
Lakes using the herbicide ProcellaCOR find it effective at killing invasive milfoil and more continue to eye its use
DEC plans ‘reclamation’ of Echo Pond, killing fish so others may thrive
By Zachary Matson
Longstanding practice aims to restore brook trout
Previously unknown historic shipwrecks found
By Zachary Matson
5 takeaways from Lake Champlain Maritime Museum’s annual archeology conference
Will new state wetlands regulations impact the Adirondacks?
By Zachary Matson
The Department of Environmental Conservation adopted new wetlands protections for outside the Blue Line. It's not clear if the Adirondack Park Agency will do the same.