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Adirondack Council prioritizes keeping up with crowds

By Brandon Loomis

The Adirondack Council wants New York to increase its $300 million Environmental Protection Fund, rebuild conservation agency staffs, and build the trails and trailhead amenities to better handle surging crowds.

State shuts Lake George gates after hours to prevent invasive species

By Tim Rowland

Boaters who are still on the lake after the gates have been closed will have access to a call box that will connect them with DEC emergency dispatch for instructions on opening the gate.

Continuing the camping tradition

By Melissa Hart

Camping was a big part of my childhood in the 1980s, growing up outside of Syracuse. My parents towed our family’s pop-up camper across New York State, spending time in the Adirondacks, along the St. Lawrence River and out to Niagara Falls.

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Author Bill McKibben: ‘We can no longer solve this crisis one Prius at a time’

By Ben Westcott

When Bill McKibben and seven Middlebury College undergraduates started 350.org in an attempt to help put an end to the age of fossil fuels, he might never have dreamed that they would coordinate 5,200 events in 181 countries in a single day, in what CNN called “the most widespread day of political activity in the planet’s history.”

Groups want constitutional amendment for Mount Van Ho tree cutting

By James Odato

The toppling of more than three acres of trees from the Adirondack forest preserve by state Olympic authority workers may spark something environmental groups have long called for – a constitutional amendment for any upgrades to the Mount Van Hoevenberg Olympic Sports Complex. Or it may trigger a lawsuit.

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Watch Author Bill McKibben’s climate change talk at The Wild Center

By Tracy Ormsbee

The Adirondack Explorer presented Climate Action: What We Can do to Protect the Future with Bill McKibben. The sold out event, which featured discussions with McKibben and The Wild Center's Stephanie Ratcliffe, can be watched here.

A lake’s identity at stake

By Tim Rowland

Concerns of overuse on Lower Saranac are being raised following completion of a bigger state boat launch at Second Pond and the proposed expansion of the Saranac Lake Marina. By a circuitous route, motorboats can also access Lower Saranac from as far away as the marinas on Lake Flower in the Village of Saranac Lake, not to mention from a number of private camps.

Frontier Town: a new base camp off the Northway

By Tim Rowland

The campers didn’t have the place all to themselves, but safe to say they had plenty of elbow room. The RV section was full, but RVers, while welcome, are not quite the demographic that the state has bet $25 million on, in hopes that adventurers will use Frontier Town as a base camp for hikes in regional outdoor attractions, such as the Hammond Pond Wild Forest, Boreas Ponds, the Essex Chain and the Upper Works trailhead to the High Peaks.

Adirondack Wild questions bike trail work in Wilcox Lake Wild Forest

By Phil Brown

The environmental group Adirondack Wild is questioning the legality of work done this summer on a trail in the Wilcox Lake Wild Forest.

Riders experience a High Peak, rolling hills and farmlands with Cycle Adirondacks

By Mike Lynch

This is the fifth year of Cycle Adirondacks' Ultimate Vacation, a high-end bicycle tour, where rides of up to 70 miles a day are rewarded with hearty meals, nightly entertainment, yoga, massage, a wine and beer garden and all the Adirondack scenery a rider can absorb.

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