Visitor monitoring, solar projects and more on APA agenda
By Gwendolyn Craig
Sweeping issues around solar projects and visitor management are on the docket before Adirondack Park Agency board members this week.
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A real lifesaver
By Gwendolyn Craig
In her time with DEC Julie Harjung, 60, has broken the corps’ glass ceiling. She is the first female forest ranger to retire with 25 years of service, and she said she is the first female lieutenant in the state.
The Last Patrol
By Gwendolyn Craig
After 25 years of service, Scott van Laer reflects on his run as forest ranger and ranger union representative
Lake George commission eyes weed killer that worked on Minerva Lake
By Gwendolyn Craig
The Adirondack Park Agency said a newly approved herbicide worked well killing Eurasian watermilfoil on Minerva Lake.
Court of Appeals: Clearing trees for snowmobile trails unconstitutional
By Gwendolyn Craig
The decision by New York's highest court ends nearly eight years of litigation that divided environmental groups and overturns part of a lower court ruling.
The fight against sprawl
By Gwendolyn Craig
Woodward Lake project’s approval renews calls for smarter subdivision design
Bug-fighting bugs
By Gwendolyn Craig
Nick Dietschler, of the NYS Hemlock Initiative, discusses ways of managing the invasive hemlock woolly adelgid. The Huyck Preserve in the Capital Region, uses an insecticide and more recently a predator fly that eats adelgids. Hemlock woolly adelgid is also impacting hemlock trees on the eastern shores of Lake George. Dietschler and his colleagues will…
A bug-sized fight for hemlock trees
By Gwendolyn Craig
The silver flies' mission: To mate, lay their eggs and let their hatched babies devour the eggs of their prey, hemlock woolly adelgid.
Nature Conservancy grants will help protect Adirondacks-connected land
By Gwendolyn Craig
Adirondack-region land trusts were recipients of Nature Conservancy grant funding for land protection and planning.
Former Adirondack mine to host major solar project
By Gwendolyn Craig
An old iron-ore tailings pile at a Star Lake mine is slated to become a solar power plant under a lease deal with the state.