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By Phil Brown
St. Regis Canoe Outfitters recently published two full-color, waterproof maps for paddlers: “The Whitney Wilderness” and “The Raquette River.” Both are a convenient size—24 inches by 18 inches—and fold up like a brochure. The scale for both is 1:50,000. Though less detailed than U.S. Geographical Survey topo maps, they are more than adequate for paddlers.…
The Adirondack Explorer has a new app, optimized for phone and tablet screens, that has everything you love about our bimonthly magazine focusing on the issues important to the Adirondacks. And now the stories can include videos, additional photos, audio, and links to other stories to help readers gain a better understanding of what’s going…
By Phil Brown
If you follow land conservation in the Adirondacks, you probably have heard of the Open Space Institute. It has helped preserve a lot of acres in the Adirondacks and elsewhere in New York State. Less well known is its program to help preserve farms in the Champlain Valley. Through the Klipper Family Fund the OSI…
By Mike Lynch
I visited the 1812 Homestead and Farm Museum in August to get photos of the new barn being constructed there. The old one burned in August 2016. While I was there, I captured images of some of the other buildings and happenings at the Willsboro site. The property was originally settled as a family home…
By Phil Brown
The Barkeater Trails Alliance has done a great job building mountain-bike trails in Wilmington, Lake Placid, and Saranac Lake. A proposed management plan for the Saranac Lakes Wild Forest calls for the construction of 35 more miles of bike trails in the region. You can read about the plan in the forthcoming issue of the…
By Phil Brown
An ad on Craigslist led to the arrest of a woman for allegedly selling an Arctic fox as a pet, according to the state Department of Environmental Conservation. The woman, from Kenmore, a Buffalo suburb, told authorities she bought the young fox in Michigan. She offered it for sale for $600. She faces a fine…
I read with interest the letter in the March/April issue requesting the Department of Environmental Conservation to place a moratorium on all trapping and hunting of red and gray fox. The intent is to increase the fox populations, which feed on white-footed mice. White-footed mice are a vector species for the bacteria (Lyme disease) transmitted…
By Phil Brown
If you’ve been planning to climb the Trap Dike on Mount Colden, you might think about doing it this weekend. That’s because the state Department of Environmental Conservation plans to close the trail along Avalanche Lake from Tuesday, August 15, through Friday, August 25. Most climbers reach the Trap Dike by hiking to the lake…
Veteran climber Don Mellor regards Moss Cliff in Wilmington Notch as the best crag in the Adirondacks, but it’s not a place for newcomers. By Don Mellor Why would a climber want to visit something called Moss Cliff? Though the name conjures up some dank, low-angled slab wrapped in a living green carpet, the reality…
By Phil Brown
In its latest forest ranger report, the state Department of Environmental Conservation gives its account of the search for a hiker who drowned in the East Branch of the Ausable River. Click here to read the full report.