Workhorses of sustainability
By Tim Rowland
March 6, 2020
Chad Vogel of Reber Rock Farm makes a living using two chestnut geldings named Stretch and Swede to harvest timber.
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Tim Rowland is a columnist, author and outdoors writer living in Jay.
By Tim Rowland
March 6, 2020
Chad Vogel of Reber Rock Farm makes a living using two chestnut geldings named Stretch and Swede to harvest timber.
By Tim Rowland
February 25, 2020
He has been the face of the DEC in the Adirondack region, including its efforts to address problems created by throngs of hikers who descend on Keene Valley to access the High Peaks.
By Tim Rowland
February 25, 2020
Studies of national parks show limited success with commonly touted solutions such as parking limitations, shuttle buses, and other attempts to divert tourists from the destinations they have traveled miles to see.
By Tim Rowland
February 17, 2020
From most of Raquette Lake the towers will not be visible at all. From Brown Tract Inlet, they will remain below the ridgeline, another trick to concealing their presence.
By Tim Rowland
January 30, 2020
The final plan lists six alternatives for Pitchoff, ranging from rerouting much of the existing trail—accessed from Route 73 between Keene and Lake Placid—to closing Pitchoff Mountain to formal hiking altogether. Under that scenario, hikers could still climb the mountain, but trails would no longer be maintained.
By Tim Rowland
January 20, 2020
Following the abolition of slavery, the South found new ways to exploit black workers. Ex-slaves were jailed for little or no reason and sentenced to hard labor. Others became sharecroppers, a form of virtual slavery that was all work and no reward.
By Tim Rowland
January 6, 2020
The shuttles will operate 16 hours a day and pass every Route 73 trailhead once every half hour.
By Tim Rowland
December 30, 2019
Perhaps most ominously, as the climate grows increasingly tormented, this was not a classic nor’easter, or the remnants of a hurricane tracking up the Hudson. This was just a rainstorm.
By Tim Rowland
December 20, 2019
Neil Woodworth, who is stepping down as the Adirondack Mountain Club's executive director at the end of 2019, helped shepherd through a transformational era in the Adirondack narrative.
By Tim Rowland
December 19, 2019
“A few people on the summit of a mountain didn’t bother anyone,” said Maria Pelusi, one of six students who presented their findings at the Nature Conservancy in Keene Valley on Wednesday.