Cuomo backs salt study
By Ry Rivard
The governor signed a law aimed at reining in the 300 million pounds of salt dumped each year in the Adirondack Park to clear roads for fast-moving vehicles.
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Rewilding a run
By Ry Rivard
Efforts to restore salmon to the Boquet have had victories and setbacks in recent years.
State experts warn about harmful algal blooms on Lake George
Lake George actually had a confirmed harmful algal bloom at the end of October, in addition to the ones in November.
Turkeys on parade
BIRDWATCH By John Thaxton On the way down to Elizabethtown for a Christmas Bird Count, I suddenly found myself slamming on my brakes really hard in order to avoid running over 15 or so wild turkeys wandering around aimlessly on Route 9N—they looked like a group of overly serious philosophers contemplating a profound existential enigma,…
Netting salmon to save them
By Ry Rivard
The Fish and Wildlife Service wants to track about 60 salmon as they move through the Boquet to figure out how good they are at getting upstream and spawning.
Lake George algal bloom: harmful but not too toxic
By Ry Rivard
Lake watchdogs have warned for years that rising pollution levels in the lake — fueled in part by leaking lakeside septics — would help cause such a bloom.
Open Space Institute acquires Lake Luzerne property ripe for green and recreational opportunities
Newly protected property in Warren County will help fight climate change and help link Saratoga Springs to the Adirondacks.
Fort Drum eyes six potential training sites, some in Adirondack Park
Fort Drum has formed a stakeholder group to look at six possible locations, some in the Adirondacks, for air- and land-based training.
Predator beetles released on Lake George to eat hemlock-killing bug
Surveyors are finding more areas along Lake George have the invasive bug that kills hemlocks, and treatment options, including the release of a non-native predator beetle, have begun.
Plattsburgh dam stands in the way of salmon progress
By Ry Rivard
Within the next five years, state and federal officials would like to see salmon breeding in the Saranac River for the first time in two centuries. But an unsound and largely unused obstacle stands in their way, the Imperial Dam