July/August 2009
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The Adirondack Park Agency (APA) is seeking public input on a plan to classify more than 12,000 acres in the western Adirondacks as Wilderness. The classification (and reclassification) offers a rare opportunity to make a significant addition to the Five Ponds Wilderness in Hamilton, Herkimer and St. Lawrence counties. At 117,978 acres, Five Ponds is the third largest Wilderness area in the Adirondack Park. The proposal will also help protect the wild character of two important wilderness canoe routes. Read more. From: ADK Mountain Club International Paper Company announced today it would provide an additional $2,000 grant to the Adirondack Council for wider distribution of its watershed publication "Adirondack Waters: Resource at Risk." Read more From: Adirondack Council
In our July/August issue:
- Recent Explorer Stories
- NCPR News
- Around the park
Debar Pond is a natural gem in the northern Adirondacks, a mile-long
glacial lake nestled between Baldface and Debar mountains, with views
of the Loon Lake Mountains to the south. Though somewhat dwarfed by its
rugged surroundings, the pond is large and cold enough to support
salmon. And it lies wholly within the forever-wild Forest Preserve.But Debar Pond is not wholly wild. On the northeast shore are a seventeen-room peeled-cedar camp and outbuildings clustered under a grove of mature white pines. READ MORE
I'm lying in bed at 4:45 a.m. The alarm hasn't gone off yet, but I won't be going back to sleep. I'm climbing Wallface today.For this I blame my friend Mike. We did a couple of small rock climbs last year, top-roped stuff, and right away he starts dreaming about Wallface, the seven-hundred-foot cliff that overlooks Indian Pass.
It may be the biggest wilderness cliff in the Northeast and we may be a couple of middle-age wannabe climbers, but, hey, we've got gumption.
Thankfully, we also have Don Mellor. READ MORE
In spring, birds flood the Adirondacks with music, and those who tune in report that the chorus thrills the soul. Yet listen closely in May and June, and you'll detect a far older symphony. This one is of such ancient vintage that it, or something like it, shook the Jurassic air when swamps and marshes were prowled by dinosaurs. It is the noisy, sometimes musical, sometimes raucous display of passion staged every spring by frogs. READ MORE
A hike up Noonmark Mountain offers the experiences of a Great Range expedition in a compact, half-day excursion. You ascend through the mixed hardwood forest of the lower elevations, then the conifer woods, and on to an open rocky summit. The trail progresses inevitably from moderate pitch to steep scramble, just like the routes to the big guys, only the stages are measured in fractions of miles. READ MORE
Although there is debate about the causes of the elevated salt levels in Lake Colby, tests by both the village and the Adirondack Watershed Institute at Paul Smith's College show chloride levels to be higher in Saranac Lake-area lakes than other Adirondack lakes, highest in Lake Colby and starkly higher in a brook near the village's uncovered sand pile. Read more.
From: Adirondack Daily Enterprise
A hero of the War of 1812 led the effort to build Wilmington United Methodist Church. Read more.
From: Press Republican
A New York train-passengers group fears it might be the end of the line for Amtrak's Manhattan-Montreal train, one of the most scenic rail trips in the world and a key source of tourists for Montreal. Read more.
From: Montreal Gazette
Outtakes Blog
Editor Phil Brown on all things Adirondacks
| The charms of Lows Ridge 07/01/2009 |
Lows Ridge may rise only four hundred fifty ... |
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| Lows Lake hearings 06/26/2009 |
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