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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.
By Zachary Matson
June 8, 2022
The state’s lawyers on Wednesday argued in Warren County court that the Lake George Park Commission should be allowed to move forward this month with a plan to use an herbicide to battle invasive Eurasian watermilfoil
By Zachary Matson
June 2, 2022
New York hydropower producers are calling on the state to give their industry equal footing with solar and wind
By Zachary Matson
May 22, 2022
Groups organize education program up and down the Ausable River
By Zachary Matson
May 21, 2022
New brief focuses on lack of study of Lower Saranac Lake despite language in State Land Master Plan
By Zachary Matson
May 18, 2022
The filing argued the agencies failed to address valid scientific questions about how the herbicide would impact Lake George waters
By Zachary Matson
May 9, 2022
Hydro-Quebec's power generation, Indigenous culture wired into tangled past
By Zachary Matson
May 8, 2022
$4 billion transmission line project to carry renewable hydro power from Quebec to NYC to pass through Lake Champlain
By Zachary Matson
May 4, 2022
Syracuse University Professor Charles Driscoll looks back on landmark study, ahead to renewed efforts to fund another
By Zachary Matson
April 26, 2022
Application set for June, despite opposition from two commissioners and public
By Zachary Matson
April 20, 2022
Researchers head north for insight into near-freezing weather, mixed precipitation events