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We have a long way to go in the North Country and across New York toward reaching our state’s ambitious clean-energy and climate-protection goals. It’s going to take all hands on deck, and, it turns out, there’s potential for the Adirondack Park to play a significant role. Already, there’s a growing push for both solar…
By Melissa Hart
Greetings!I’m writing in my new role as digital editor of the Adirondack Explorer and Adirondack Almanack. I hope you use these platforms to join in the numerous conversations happening around Adirondack issues, and join me for a “coffee and conversation” Zoom session coming up later this month. Earlier in the summer, readers weighed in on “secret spots” and…
By Ry Rivard
Tomorrow happens to be my first anniversary at the Explorer. I’m still on deadline for the next print issue of the magazine, so I’ll keep this short and sweet. One of the interesting things about working for a magazine is thinking about how to tell stories that will stick around and still be news for a while. Since the…
Hello again! We’re pretty much past peak foliage color here in the Adirondacks, but I hope you’re all getting out and enjoying the sights. I revisited a favorite this weekend, Buck Mountain in Lake George. I’d never been during the fall, and the blush of reds and oranges did not disappoint. Plenty of people were…
Now and then we hear complaints that all of our pretty photography, and some of the accompanying writing, only serves to drive visitors to parts of the Adirondacks that don’t need or can’t handle any more pressure. This is the Instagram problem that we hear so much about, with complaints about those who geotag their…
By Mike Lynch
Somehow peak foliage is already gone in the Adirondacks, sneaking up on most of the park last weekend, seeming to come at least a week earlier than in previous years. The peak foliage coincided with a huge hiking weekend recently and some chaos, too. This week we’ve been reporting on search and rescues and a hiker who drove his truck…
By Ry Rivard
I joined the Explorer last year in October — just in time to miss peak fall foliage. So, this is my first full fall back on the East Coast. We never find things, even seasons, as we left them. This year’s first frost was colder than I remember first frosts. The leaves are now both brighter than…
By Ry Rivard
Covering legislation can be maddening — and following coverage of legislation can be even harder. First, there are the bills that get introduced each year. It’s hard to know which ones of those to take seriously. Then there are the various procedural steps that happen along the way. A bill passes one chamber then goes…
By Ry Rivard
Last fall, driving toward Crown Point, I came across some officials from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service checking one of Lake Champlain’s New York tributaries for lampreys, a fish with a bad reputation in the modern era because it’s ugly and harms the region’s precious salmon. The wildlife service dumps a chemical into the water…