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Philip Terrie

Philip Terrie is an Adirondack and environmental historian, and the author of five books on regional history, including Contested Terrain: A New History of Nature and People in the Adirondacks (2nd ed., Syracuse UP, 2008) and Seeing the Forest: Reviews, Musings, and Opinions from an Adirondack Historian (Saranac Lake: Adirondack Explorer, 2017).

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History & Culture

Perspective: The forest preserve’s expanding size and role

By Philip Terrie

November 10, 2023

New York has been a leader in conservation since the 1880s

Communities

Opening the art vault

By Philip Terrie

September 23, 2023

A new exhibit showcases some of the highlights of Adirondack Experience's extensive collection

Communities

A scarred landscape

By Philip Terrie

October 15, 2022

Aerial photographs document humans' impact on Adirondacks

Communities

From Haystack to Nye, 100 years later

By Philip Terrie

November 25, 2021

Bob Marshall’s pamphlet of the peaks nears centennial

Communities

Relic of a revered guide

By Philip Terrie

August 29, 2021

Adirondack Experience acquires pistol of legendary Long Laker Mitchell Sabattis

Communities

A park like no other

By Philip Terrie

April 18, 2021

Decades of experience suggest the state needs to do more to protect shorelines, uplands, and the privately owned backcountry

Uncategorized

Park logging lore

By Philip Terrie

November 30, 2020

“Adirondack Timber Cruising” reads like gabbing with old loggers The contents of William O’Hern’s “Adirondack Timber Cruising” are a treasure, the packaging not so much. Plagued by many of the problems of self-published books taken to press without the intervention of an editor or designer, it offers no introduction to explain the book’s aim, with…

Communities

The roots of modern-day Adirondack Park took shape 50 years ago

By Philip Terrie

November 9, 2020

The final report of the Temporary Study Commission on the Future of the Adirondacks (TSC) ushered in the modern era of Adirondack history.

Uncategorized

‘Murray’s Fools’ at 150

By Philip Terrie

November 29, 2019

As New York becomes more diverse, as languages other than English are spoken in every New York county, the Adirondack wilderness needs a constituency of everyone.

Uncategorized

Blacks in the Adirondacks: A History

By Philip Terrie

November 1, 2017

The history of the Adirondacks, as it’s usually presented, is blindingly white. Nearly all of our stories—logging, tourism, the Saranac Lake TB nexus, you name it—have familiar iterations, and they seem to involve only white people. Reading, or hearing, these often-repeated narratives, you might wonder if an African-American ever crossed the Blue Line. Sally Svenson…

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