Tourists or no, Adirondack towns suppress insects
By Phil Brown
April 29, 2020
Bti is a soil-dwelling bacterium first discovered in Israel in 1976. It kills the larvae of mosquitoes as well as those of blackflies.
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Phil Brown edited the Adirondack Explorer from 1999 until his retirement in 2018. He continues to explore the park and to write for the publication and website.
By Phil Brown
April 29, 2020
Bti is a soil-dwelling bacterium first discovered in Israel in 1976. It kills the larvae of mosquitoes as well as those of blackflies.
By Phil Brown
April 28, 2020
I had read that this region—dubbed the Sable Highlands—has the largest concentration of moose in the Adirondacks, but I still was astounded by the abundance of scat.
By Phil Brown
April 20, 2020
Poke-O-Moonshine is one of the premier rock-climbing destinations in the Adirondacks, with more than 300 routes, but DEC usually closes part of the cliff in the spring to allow peregrines to nest undisturbed.
By Phil Brown
April 6, 2020
It’s a little too bulky and too prosy to take into the field.
By Phil Brown
March 23, 2020
Whiteface should be able to develop a sensible policy that allows skiers to skin uphill throughout the day without putting downhill skiers in jeopardy.
By Phil Brown
March 12, 2020
The actual amount of water withdrawn on most days probably will be far less than the nearly 1.6 million gallons allowed in the proposed permit. In a report prepared for DEC, the club’s engineering firm, Chazen Companies of Troy, estimates that 693,000 gallons is withdrawn on a typical day.
By Phil Brown
March 5, 2020
Over 4.5 miles, the highway gains about 1,650 feet in elevation, much less than the Whiteface road, so the climb is easier.
By Phil Brown
March 2, 2020
He figured he’d have to walk back to the car or, at best, try to gingerly schuss down the road with a broken binding. All that uphill climbing for naught.
By Phil Brown
February 10, 2020
Avalanche Mountain Gully lies across the lake from the Trap Dike. It’s an old climb that rated a brief mention in Tom Rosecrans’s 1976 guidebook “Adirondack Rock and Ice Climbs,” the first guidebook to catalog the region’s ice routes.
By Phil Brown
October 23, 2019
When Laura and Guy Waterman began researching and writing a history of hiking in the Northeast in 1979, they figured the project would take three years. Ten years later, the Appalachian Mountain Club released “Forest and Crag: A History of Hiking, Trail Blazing, and Adventure in the Northeast Mountains.”