Paddling the Deer: Bushwhack required
By Tom French
Paddling a stretch of Deer River with a series of difficult portages, as well as several beautiful falls and cascades that few see.
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‘Other-worldly’ isolation along the Deer River Meadows
By Tom French
Adventure awaits those who dare carry along an overgrown railbed into the Deer River Meadows
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Camps to stay on former Champion lands
By Phil Brown
After years of negotiation and some controversy, the state has finalized an agreement that will allow more than two hundred hunting camps to remain on timberlands formerly owned by Champion International. In 1998, the state entered an agreement with Champion to purchase 29,000 acres in the Adirondacks and preserve another 110,000 with conservation easements…
Proposed Forest Preserve addition
By Phil Brown
In a post yesterday, I reported that Heartland Forestland Fund would donate 2,661 acres to the state under a plan to modify a conservation-easement agreement in order to allow hunting camps to remain on timberlands in the northern Adirondacks. I now have a map of the lands in question, shown above. Most of the land…
New deal for hunters
By Phil Brown
When the state signed a deal a decade ago to protect 139,000 acres owned by Champion International, Adirondack residents complained that it called for the demolition of hunting camps that had been in use for many years. As a result, the state Department of Environmental Conservation is proposing to modify the deal to allow the…