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Tim Rowland

Tim Rowland is a columnist, author and outdoors writer living in Jay.

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Outdoor Recreation

Frontier Town: a new base camp off the Northway

By Tim Rowland

August 23, 2019

The campers didn’t have the place all to themselves, but safe to say they had plenty of elbow room. The RV section was full, but RVers, while welcome, are not quite the demographic that the state has bet $25 million on, in hopes that adventurers will use Frontier Town as a base camp for hikes in regional outdoor attractions, such as the Hammond Pond Wild Forest, Boreas Ponds, the Essex Chain and the Upper Works trailhead to the High Peaks.

Environment

Protect joins state in appealing timber lawsuit

By Tim Rowland

August 20, 2019

Both parties to a controversial and consequential forest-use lawsuit have appealed a July 3 court ruling that says construction of a planned network of snowmobile trails in the east-central Adirondacks is illegal because it would mow down too many trees on the forest preserve. 

Environment

State to close more roadside parking in crowded High Peaks

By Tim Rowland

April 5, 2019

Along with parking restrictions, which the state began enforcing last year in the Chapel Pond area, DEC wants to rate hikes for their degree of difficulty and get this information into the hotels so tourists will be less likely to attempt climbs that are beyond their capabilities.

Environment

Cormorants’ rebound confounds wildlife managers

By Tim Rowland

November 16, 2018

The double-crested cormorant made a miraculous recovery after the ban on DDT, a pesticide that had once imperiled the bird’s existence. But while conservationists hailed the return of birds such as the bald eagle, they became increasingly wary of the collateral success represented by the cormorant.