2020 EXPLORED: Invasive species
By Ry Rivard
This year, the Explorer looked at several major invaders and the damage they did.
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Comments show divide over Lake Luzerne map amendment proposal
The Town of Lake Luzerne’s request to weaken Adirondack Park Agency zoning restrictions on about 104 acres is moving forward.
2020 EXPLORED: Road salt
By Ry Rivard
Researchers, regulators and residents have worried, complained, studied and suffered for years — yet the state has done little to get its arms around the problem of road salt contamination. Until this year.
Five wild stories from 2020
By Melissa Hart
No doubt about it, 2020 was a wild year. In the spirit of "wild" we bring you 5 wildlife-themed stories that ran on the Explorer website this year.
Curbing New York’s 40-year road salt addiction
By Ry Rivard
By 2015, the Fund for Lake George, a nonprofit watchdog for the lake that anchors one of the country’s desirable lakefront property markets, said salt was “the acid rain of our time.” Now, years later, the state may get serious about the problem.
Monarchs get federal recognition but not protection
By Mike Lynch
The U.S. Fish and Wildife Service announced December 15 that monarch butterflies deserve protection under the Endangered Species Act, but didn't propose to list them.
Campfires now OK at Essex Chain Lakes primitive tent sites
Campfires are now allowed at 11 primitive camp sites in the Essex Chain Lakes, and parking will be installed at the old Outer Gooley Club.
Comments question campfires, new parking proposals for Essex Chain Lakes
The APA will weigh in on campfires and expanded parking in the Essex Chain Lakes during its meeting on Thursday.
Public, preservationists voice support for Debar Lodge
The proposal to remove an Adirondack camp is a state Constitutional conundrum that has opened the floodgates of public comment.
WATCH: DEC treats about 2,500 Lake George-area hemlock trees for invasive bug
The DEC treated about 2,500 hemlock trees around 138 acres near Lake George in Washington County for the invasive hemlock woolly adelgid.