Governor rejects electric bike legislation
By Brandon Loomis
December 27, 2019
The governor objected to the legislation’s failure to include a helmet requirement and other safety measures.
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By Brandon Loomis
December 27, 2019
The governor objected to the legislation’s failure to include a helmet requirement and other safety measures.
By Brandon Loomis
December 26, 2019
Beyond its historic intrigue, though, Newcomb's Camp Santanoni serves a more utilitarian purpose around two winter holidays and one March weekend: hot chocolate and a woodstove.
By Brandon Loomis
December 24, 2019
Whatever you want to call it -- even if you just call it a lot of people enjoying nature -- the effort to understand and plan for the rising number of people driving to and hiking in the High Peaks dominated discussions among Adirondack Park advocates, municipal officials and resource managers in 2019.
By Brandon Loomis
November 8, 2019
Started in Vermont in partnership with the Tree Farm forestry certification program and other agencies, the warbler effort aims to knock some of the Northeast’s dense forests back into an earlier succession that favors certain birds and the insects they eat.
By Brandon Loomis
November 1, 2019
The bill would direct the state Department of Transportation to test new and environmentally friendlier snow-clearing methods on state roads in the park from 2021 through 2024, and to record and report the results.
By Brandon Loomis
October 22, 2019
Adirondack Wild and Protect the Adirondacks sued in 2016 to thwart a Department of Environmental Conservation plan to route a snowmobile trail across newly acquired state land between Indian Lake and Newcomb. The Adirondack Park Agency had signed off on the trail on Chain Lakes Road South, which passes within a half-mile of the Hudson River in a mile-long stretch where the river is designated “wild.”
By Brandon Loomis
October 2, 2019
Stewards help prepare visitors for the trail, said Zoe Smith, deputy director of the Adirondack Watershed Institute. They are available during peak hiking times to answer any questions people have about the length and strenuousness of hikes,
By Brandon Loomis
September 25, 2019
The Adirondack Experience is digitizing 1,308 of the maps in its collection, dating back to 1703, thanks to a $60,500 grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources.
By Brandon Loomis
September 20, 2019
“We need more action and less talk," 15-year-old Astrid Livesey said. "That is why we are here, and that is what we demand."
By Brandon Loomis
September 4, 2019
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.