Court of Appeals: Clearing trees for snowmobile trails unconstitutional
The decision by New York's highest court ends nearly eight years of litigation that divided environmental groups and overturns part of a lower court ruling.
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The fight against sprawl
Woodward Lake project’s approval renews calls for smarter subdivision design
A bug-sized fight for hemlock trees
The silver flies' mission: To mate, lay their eggs and let their hatched babies devour the eggs of their prey, hemlock woolly adelgid.
Nature Conservancy grants will help protect Adirondacks-connected land
Adirondack-region land trusts were recipients of Nature Conservancy grant funding for land protection and planning.
Annual watershed cleanup hits high water mark
By Tim Rowland
Around 100 people cleared out 2,000 pounds from Ausable River's banks this past weekend
State: Saranac Lake Marina expansion doesn’t require major study
By Ry Rivard
The state's attorneys argue that only about a dozen more boats will be on Lower Saranac Lake at any time after a marina expansion.
Champlain’s wild card
By Ry Rivard
Wild-born lake trout, long a rare catch, thrive in changed waters.
Debar Lodge proponents map out process for saving it
A constitutional amendment could save a 1940s-era Adirondack camp, but past amendments and proposals leave questions.
Marina lawsuit presses state to study ‘overuse’
By Ry Rivard
Buried in a maze of state planning documents for the park are calls for the state to do “carrying capacity” studies of each section of the park.
State’s highest court hears forest preserve tree cutting case
The state’s highest court will soon decide what constitutes a constitutionally protected tree in the Adirondack Forest Preserve, potentially impacting the construction of planning snowmobile trails.