Adirondack skies missing Long Lake legend
By Times Union
Thomas Helms, a pilot, professor and fixture of life in the Adirondack Mountains, died last month at 76. His pontoon boats on Long Lake and in the skies above were a common site.
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Adirondack trail work is in his DNA
By Mike Lynch
Tony Goodwin looks back on seven decades blazing literal trails throughout the park
Hummingbird research: Banding the tiniest of birds
By Mike Lynch
Ted Hicks, who is the Crown Point Bird Banding Station Coordindator, bands hummingbirds from May to August.
Meet a woman dedicated to helping turtles
Wildlife rehabilitator has shaped her life around patching shells of turtles who have been hit by cars or sustained other injuries
Legislature passes bill for 9/11 death benefits to Adirondack officer’s widow
By the time Shari Raymond discovered her husband's cancers were related to 9/11, her accidental death benefit application was too late.
Inside the ‘green lobby’
Memoir draws from three decades as an environmental powerbroker
ASK A SCIENTIST: Invasive Species
DEC’s Bureau of Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health Research Scientist Jessica Cancelliere
Senate confirms three Adirondack Park Agency members
Law-Diao makes history as first Black person on the board
Benita Law-Diao tapped to be APA’s first Black board member
Hochul's nomination awaits official confirmation
Adirondacks-based reporter on covering war in Ukraine
Adirondacks-based NPR correspondent Brian Mann talks with the Adirondack Explorer about covering the war in Ukraine.