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Red-bellies rule!

By Explorer archives

I read with interest John Thaxton’s column on red-bellied woodpeckers [Birdwatch, March/April 2015]. I live in the southern Adirondack Park in Hadley. Last year we spotted a pair of red-bellies in our yard. They often came to our feeder and ate only the cracked corn we had mixed in with the sunflower seeds. The male was very aggressive and…

APA not protecting sensitive lands

By Explorer archives

Kudos to the Explorer for knowing what’s important. The March/April issue devoted three full pages to the impending regulatory tsunami that threatens to wipe out the protections we’ve assumed were in place for Resource Management lands in the Park. The first wave hit a few years ago with approval of the sprawling Adirondack Club and Resort on over six thousand acres…

Wolves would be Adirondack attraction

By Explorer archives

I agree with Larry Master’s comments about how wolves enhance visits to Algonquin and Yellowstone parks and boost ecotourism [“The wolf at our door,” March/April 2015]. The wolf would do the same for the Adirondacks and the Northeast. I too, spent many summers camping in Algonquin Park in my late teens and early twenties. There’s nothing like hearing the howl of…

DEC Closes Rock-Climbing Cliffs For Falcons

By Phil Brown

You know winter is coming to an end when the state Department of Environmental Conservation closes rock-climbing cliffs where peregrine falcons are known to breed. Peregrines are on the state’s endangered-species list, and so each spring DEC closes cliffs to protect their nesting sites. Cliffs will be reopened if no nesting occurs on them. Those…

Skiing Up Marcy Trail Is Great Even If You Fall Short

By Phil Brown

This has been a great winter for powder skiing in the backcountry, thanks to a two-month-plus stretch of cold weather without a serious thaw. Alas, that stretch ended last week, leaving me a bit apprehensive about ski conditions. On Sunday, I skied Mount Marcy with my neighbor, Tim Peartree, starting from Adirondak Loj. As it…

Park Perspectives: Sofas and spotlights

By Explorer archives

In Upper Jay, on the bank of the notoriously moody East Branch of the Ausable River where it bends east on its way to Lake Champlain, sits a three-story building bearing a sign that reads Upper Jay Upholstery. On this January Sunday the river is placid and low within its banks, flowing darkly between sheets…

Lost Ski Areas of the Northern Adirondacks

By Explorer archives

Pages of skiing’s past When we think of Adirondack ski areas, it’s usually the charismatic ones that come to mind: Whiteface, Gore Mountain, and McCauley Mountain for downhillers, Lapland Lake and Mount Van Hoevenberg if your tastes run to Nordic. These and a handful of others can be counted on from year to year, either…

Rescue Saranac River from trash

By Explorer archives

I stopped by your office in August to tell you how much I enjoy your publication, especially the paddling articles. After leaving your office I paddled on the Saranac River for five miles. I was saddened by all the trash (soda and beer cans and bottles, hubcaps, traffic cones, car and appliance parts) that was…

Hidden pleasures of Debar Pond area

By Explorer archives

I’ve hunted in the Loon Lake/Debar/Baldface area for over fifty years, so I enjoyed your article “Return to Debar Pond” [July/August 2014]. We’ve fished Debar Pond, and there is a family of loons there every year. I’ve been on top of Baldface a number of times, but we hunt more toward Debar and the lower…

Needed: Conservation design

By Adirondack Explorer

A key to successful protection of the Adirondack Park is wise oversight of privately owned lands within the Blue Line. Such properties make up roughly half the acreage in the Park and include wild lands that are important both for ecological integrity and the natural, park-like character of the Adirondacks. Unfortunately, the state agency responsible…

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