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Zachary Matson

Zachary Matson has been an environmental reporter for the Explorer since October 2021. He is focused on the many issues impacting water and the people, plants and wildlife that rely on it in the Adirondack Park. Zach worked at daily newspapers in Missouri, Arizona and New York for nearly a decade, most recently as the education reporter at the Daily Gazette in Schenectady. He lives in Saranac with his family.

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Hornbeck Boats branches out to the Land of 10,000 Lakes

By Zachary Matson

Hornbeck Boats, the maker of the iconic Adirondack pack boat, is expanding with a new retail store in Minneapolis opening this month

a flag ceremony for deceased forest ranger robbi mecus

New DEC chief honors trans ranger in first Adirondack stop 

By Zachary Matson

New DEC commissioner honors beloved ranger who died in climbing accident in first appearance in the Adirondacks

St. Armand to buy Paul Smith’s College land that holds town’s water supply 

By Zachary Matson

Long history of divided ownership over Bloomingdale water supply could wrap for $300,000

The St. Regis River flows under state Route 37 in Hogansburg, as it nears its confluence with the St. Lawrence River. Photo by Tom French

St. Regis Mohawk Tribe leads effort to curb road salt pollution

By Zachary Matson

New technology includes outfitting snow removal trucks with cameras and sensors to track salt use and optimize operations

Ice begins to form on Mirror Lake in November 2017. Photo by Brendan Wiltse

Salt success: How Lake Placid rallied to save Mirror Lake

By Zachary Matson

Community's efforts to reduce salt use, divert runoff has helped bring a key Adirondack lake back from the brink

State to offer $80 million for flood resiliency projects

By Zachary Matson

The latest grants from $4.2 billion green bond could target flood mitigation projects for Ausable, Boquet rivers.

Results are in for milfoil-killing herbicide used in Adirondack lakes

By Zachary Matson

Lakes using the herbicide ProcellaCOR find it effective at killing invasive milfoil and more continue to eye its use

DEC plans ‘reclamation’ of Echo Pond, killing fish so others may thrive 

By Zachary Matson

Longstanding practice aims to restore brook trout 

Previously unknown historic shipwrecks found

By Zachary Matson

5 takeaways from Lake Champlain Maritime Museum’s annual archeology conference

Will new state wetlands regulations impact the Adirondacks? 

By Zachary Matson

The Department of Environmental Conservation adopted new wetlands protections for outside the Blue Line. It's not clear if the Adirondack Park Agency will do the same.

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