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Tim Rowland is a columnist, author and outdoors writer living in Jay.
By Tim Rowland
September 19, 2020
New York’s foresters and rangers are always on standby, ready to mobilize should the call come from the U.S. Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management or other federal agency in need of help.
By Tim Rowland
September 18, 2020
In contrast to much of the United States east of the Mississippi, Adirondack skies are relatively free from light pollution.
By Tim Rowland
July 13, 2020
When COVID-19 began to spread, Trudeau Institute was ready to help with testing and the search for vaccines and treatments.
By Tim Rowland
July 11, 2020
Combined with increased and more-enforced parking restrictions along state and town roads and virus-related parking-lot restrictions, the lack of shuttles will severely reduce hiker access to some of the Adirondacks’ most popular mountain destinations this summer.
By Tim Rowland
May 30, 2020
In an age when everything explorable has been explored, bushwhacking satisfies modern souls that channel Magellan, Drake and de León.
By Tim Rowland
May 20, 2020
Cylists had begun pressing for a southern route to complement the Lake Placid-Tupper Lake trail that the Adirondack Park Agency approved this month.
By Tim Rowland
May 14, 2020
Rail refurbishment for the scenic railroad is expected to be completed by 2021, and the rail trail by 2023.
By Tim Rowland
May 5, 2020
“We have enough trails, what we need is economic activity,” said Shaun Gillilland, chair of the Essex County Board of Supervisors.
By Tim Rowland
April 21, 2020
Even before the virus made its appearance on American shores, there were concerns about the census as the calendar turned to 2020.
By Tim Rowland
March 31, 2020
By Tim Rowland The timing of his tenure as Region 5 director for the Department of Environmental Conservation is not lost on Robert Stegemann. “I came in with Hurricane Irene and I’m going out with the coronavirus,” he said. But in between it was quite a run, a decade that is likely to be noted…