The Adirondack Explorer is a non-profit newsmagazine devoted to the protection and enjoyment of the Adirondack Park.
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| The mountain lion conspiracy 03/10/2010 |
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| Beaver resigns as state mammal 03/09/2010 |
A coalition of environmental groups launched ... |
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| Rally for the VICs 03/09/2010 |
Andy Flynn, local writer and publisher, is ... |
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Community Blogs
Notes from the field
by Brian McAllister
| Learn Your Boreal Birds-Gray Jay 02/26/2010 |
| I’d like to start a new feature here on ... |
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The nature of things
by Gary Lee
| Acid Rain Conference Speakers 02/23/2010 |
| CENTRAL ADIRONDACKS ARTS AND SCIENCES ADVOCACY ... |
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Student Notebooks
by Plattsburgh State College Students
| It looks like alien blood! 03/07/2010 |
| Few summers have been as dreary as the one we ... |
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DEC decision leaves observers wondering if Forest Preserve routes could be opened to motor vehicles.
Old roads run like fault lines through the Adirondack Park. Sources of conflict since the early 1900s, they have been at the heart of several land-use battles over the last two decades. Indeed, Crane Pond Road in Schroon and the Old Mountain Road in Keene and North Elba have become symbols of discord. READ MORE
Winter came late. We didn't get our first decent snowstorm until the second week of December, maybe six inches over two days, enough to ski the new trail at Henry's Woods outside Lake Placid.The 2.5-mile trail winds, climbs, and descends through a two-hundred-acre preserve on the outskirts of the village.
Tony Goodwin, executive director of the Adirondack Ski Touring Council, designed the trail for hiking and skiing. It's five feet wide, and most of its surface is smooth and covered with crushed gravel, making it a good bet whenever there isn't much snow.
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With snowshoes, you can go just about anywhere in the Adirondack Park. But with more than two thousand miles of trails, it's hard to know where to start. Here are suggestions from four gung-ho Adirondack snowshoers. DEBAR MOUNTAIN - By Tony Goodwin
Although only 3,300 feet in elevation, Debar Mountain rises prominently from the flatter terrain to the north and west, the direction from which it is approached. Summertime views are unique but limited pretty much to Meacham Lake and the lower mountains to the west plus the expansive sweep of the St. Lawrence Valley to the north. A winter ascent, however, offers the possibility of views to the south and east, especially at the end of a good snow year when one stands five or six feet higher on the consolidated snow. READ MORE
His lifelong quest: To protect wild nature When Clarence A. Petty died at 104 on November 30, the Adirondack Park lost one of its greatest champions, the woodsman who laid the groundwork for the protection of a million acres of wilderness and 1,200 miles of rivers inside the Blue Line. With his passing, the Park also lost what may be the last living link to an earlier era known mostly through history books and old-time photographs of guides, trappers, lumbermen, and grand lakeside hotels. READ MORE
The Adirondack Park Agency will meet Thursday and Friday at APA Headquarters in Ray Brook. Read more.
From: The Press Republican
Despite difficult economic times, the Adirondack Chapter of The Nature Conservancy is still hopeful it can sell its former Finch, Pruyn timberlands to the state, though not as quickly as it originally planned. Read more.
From: Adirondack Daily Enterprise
The Department of Environmental Conservation has settled its federal case with Jim McCulley, president of the Lake Placid Snowmobile Club. Read more.
From: The Press Republican
Johnsburg Supervisor Sterling Goodspeed stood overlooking North Creek Saturday and got a bit nostalgic. Read more.
From: Glens Falls Post-Star
Finch Paper, LLC, recently reacquired from The Nature Conservancy a 1,700-acre tract in Indian Lake, New York. The property was part of Finch Paper’s vast commercial timberland holdings—161,000 acres in the Adirondacks—purchased by The Nature Conservancy in 2007. Read more. From: The Nature Conservancy The Open Space Institute announced today that a private landowner has donated a conservation easement that will forever protect a 1,400-acre forest in the northeast corner of the Adirondack Park. Read more. From: The Open Space Institute One of the nation’s leading voices in the fight against acid rain today praised US Sen. Thomas Carper, D-Delaware, for introducing legislation that would require air pollution cuts from the smokestacks of power plants across the nation. Read more. From: Adirondack Council The Lake George Association, which was formed in 1885, celebrates its 125 From: Lake George Association