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Paddler discovers that Negro Brook is not the gentle meander it appears to be. By Phil Brown It seemed like a good idea. I like to canoe small streams. Negro Brook is a small stream. Ergo, I would like canoeing Negro Brook. Negro Brook (on the name, see sidebar) begins near Onchiota and meanders through…
By Phil Brown
The state Department of Conservation is conducting a search in the Catskills for a sixty-year-old man who has been missing since Tuesday. Following is a news release from the department: DEC Statement More than a dozen DEC Forest Rangers, a DEC K-9 Unit, a New York State Police aviation unit helicopter with infrared camera, four…
By Phil Brown
If you’ve seen a bear or sign of a bear, such as tracks, scat, or fur, Cornell University wants to know about it. Cornell has developed a free app for citizen scientists to input data on bear sightings. The information will enable scientists to monitor the growing bear population in New York State. Cornell issued…
By Mike Lynch
The following is a statement released by the state Department of Environmental Conservation about a search-and-rescue incident that took place Monday. The incident overlapped with another rescue occurring near Gothics Mountain. On July 30, 2017 at 11:30 pm a group of four hikers on the summit of Algonquin Peak contacted DEC Ray Brook Dispatch…
The photo with “Why I Miss Richard Nixon” shows my uncle Russell Train, who went on to become administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency under Presidents Nixon and Ford. Nixon gave him wide authority in the early 1970s to usher in such landmark legislation as the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, Superfund, the…
With this year’s publication of Western Trails, the Adirondack Mountain Club (ADK) completed the most recent overhaul of its Forest Preserve Series of hiking guidebooks—and the club is already hard at work on the next edition of the series. ADK’s hiking guidebooks used to divide the Adirondack Park into six regions. The club has pared that…
By Phil Brown
Ten forest rangers and ten other DEC employees and volunteers are helping to fight a wildfire in Lolo National Forest in western Montana. As of July 27, the fire had spread to 3,700 acres. In all, more than 400 firefighters and other personnel have been assigned to the fire. You can read more details in…
Thinking of taking up trail running? The most important piece of equipment is, of course, your shoes. Drew Haas, an avid trail runner and manager at the Mountaineer in Keene Valley, went over some options with us for the July/August issue of the Adirondack Explorer — with this caveat: “What works for one doesn’t necessarily…
By Phil Brown
Adirondack North Country Association announces that its next Bike the Barns tour will take place on Sunday, October 1. During the tour, cyclists will stop at farms in the Champlain Valley to sample their foodstuffs. Alan Wechsler rode in the first Bike the Barns tour last fall and wrote about it for Adirondack Explorer. Click…
By Phil Brown
The state Department of Environmental Conservation is warning visitors to beware of aggressive bears that have been approaching hikers, rock climbers, and campers in the Chapel Pond area and the Dix Mountain Wilderness. The department recently killed one of the bears. Read DEC’s news release here.