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I just finished my first digital edition of Adirondack Explorer on my iPad. Having known the Explorer for years in newsprint all I can say is WOW!!! The photography was unbelievable! (Even the ads looked remarkable.) Jon Holiner, Levittown
Anyone who drives in the Adirondacks in winter understands the need to reduce ice on the roadways. We have to keep our roads open and safe both for the sake of our drivers and an economy that depends on transportation. At the same time, anyone who considers the environmental and financial cost of strewing road…
House Republicans are doing everything they can to stop the EPA from implementing court-ordered regulations to control mercury discharges from coal-fired power plants. These regulations have been in the works for nearly a decade and are long overdue. Mercury is poisoning life in the Adirondacks. Every year Midwest coal-fired plants spew out fifty tons of…
Early in Brian Mann’s article on the Adirondack Club and Resort [“Forest impacts debated,” November/December 2011] he appears to give equal weight to the views of Adirondack ecologist Dr. Michale Glennon and Oregon State University Dean Hal Salwasser. While Salwasser is no doubt a distinguished forest ecologist, he has hardly devoted a good part of…
Congratulations to Paul Grondahl on his superb article on Anne Labastille [September/October 2011]. I knew Anne personally for thirty years through our membership in the New York State Outdoor Guides Association, in which we were both charter members, and from the many book signings and shows we did together as fellow authors and outdoor writers.…
I have been following the rails-versus-trails debate closely and would like to express the opinion of a person who was been sitting in a wheelchair for over twenty-five years. I am paralyzed from the waist down as the result of a car accident, own my own home, and consider myself to be a pretty independent…
Concerning all-terrain vehicles: there are inconsiderate people in every activity. I am an outdoorsman and participate in many activities, including camping, kayaking, and hiking. I’ve seen campsites where green trees were felled. I have put out a fire in pine needles someone abandoned. I have seen major erosion on hiking trails and read about fire…
Change is always hard to come by, especially when nostalgia clouds the picture. A current example may be seen in the debate (page 56) over the best use of the old railroad corridor that connects Lake Placid, Saranac Lake and Tupper Lake—a thirty-four-mile segment of the line that traverses a wild and scenic landscape of…
I agree fully with Mary Thill’s frustration with the mercury levels in our fish [Viewpoint, Sept./Oct. 2011]. However, there is more to the issue and even some good news that needs to be publicized. The health advisories at the back of the state Fishing Regulations Guide include a list of lakes and rivers plus additional…
Per Moberg, who died in August at age ninety-one, will be remembered as a give-no-quarter conservationist who was totally dedicated to protecting the Adirondacks. He was born in Brooklyn, but his parents took him back to Sweden after six months, and he didn’t return to the United States for twenty-five years. He spoke for the…