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I think the maximum $500 fines that could be levied for the two men who allegedly stoned the great blue heron [“Men accused of stoning heron.” Sept./Oct. 2011] are not enough. At least three years doing community service at a wildlife-rehabilitation center would at least put them in touch with reality. I work at a…
I am a big supporter of the Explorer and the Adirondacks. But I sure am troubled by the Explorer’s campaign to lift up the rails between Thendara and Lake Placid. Let’s get on with building the bike and walking path between Saranac Lake and Lake Placid beside the tracks (I just saw a new $1.2…
Muddy ruts, noise, and disturbance are not the full extent of the ATV problem [“ATVs still running amuck,” Sept./Oct. 2011]. In the area of Tug Hill there are roving gangs on ATVs who break into camps and also into fishermen’s parked vehicles. I have several friends who own camps in the area of the Salmon…
I wonder how many of your readers have had this experience: After parking the car, you approach a busy launch site with your canoe in hand, and you find a canoe or kayak blocking the limited space at the water’s edge while the owners are trekking back and forth to their vehicles. I have done…
Reading a recent editorial from the Glens Falls Post-Star, which pillories Chairman Curt Stiles and the state’s Adirondack Park Agency for being too strong on environmental protection, brings back memories of the anti-APA hostility so rampant four decades ago, in the earliest days of this state entity. “Who are you to come here and tell…
Your editorial on the Adirondack Club and Resort [July/August 2011] was balanced and realistic. I applaud you for taking a stand that is contrary to the opinion of many Tupper Lake residents. Aside from the issue of economic sustainability of the proposed project, which seems dubious at best, my primary concern is the negative impact…
The landslide on the hills above Keene Valley is for the landowners and all who have to deal with it a calamity. I first learned of the dangers of building structures on steep slopes and unstable soils after moving to Southern California in 1959. Luxurious mansions were being built in the Santa Monica Mountains on…
I really liked the Whiteface bike loop piece [July/August]. We have been on parts of the Whiteface loop but would not attempt the Whiteface shoulder climb or the traffic on Route 86 between Lake Placid and Saranac Lake. We have been on the Bloomingdale-to-Union Falls section (terrific) and also the Riverside Drive section that writer Susan…
A recent Viewpoint [July/August 2011] alleged that cougars could not survive today in the Adirondack Park primarily because of the road density here. Yet cougars today have a permanent presence in the suburbs of Los Angeles, San Diego, and Denver, seemingly oblivious to road-density factors many times that in the Adirondacks. My position and that…
Two recent letters to the editor, one from a writer in Rosendale and the second from a writer in California, urge the reintroduction of cougars into the Adirondacks, one claiming that it would “help forests” and the second apparently positing that it’s a good idea simply because “cougars and people can coexist” and that “conflicts…