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Thank you, Tom Woodman, for your June 25, 2012, article in the Albany Times Union [originally an editorial in the July/August Explorer] calling for an end to the hunting and trapping of bobcats. I, too, agree that the beautiful bobcat deserves to live. I’m so sick of hunters that call killing a sport. It’s barbaric!…
Congratulations on the July/August article “Future of Open Space.” It is indeed time for a review of the Adirondack Park Agency’s work over the last forty years, especially now that it seems to have totally lost its bearings, ignoring the most important and basic purposes of its enabling legislation. Building must be stopped on lands…
I was surprised by a comment by Colin Beier, an ecologist at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in “Future of open space.” Professor Beier thinks there’s no longer a development threat to the Adirondacks because, as he points out, the Adirondack Park is losing population. It’s true that the year-round Adirondack population…
In regard to “The future of open space” [July/August, 2012]: In the 1920s and 1930s, the discussion was that there should be approximately a 50-50 split between state ownership and private ownership. Now, according to the Department of Environmental Conservation, the state owns 2,790,000 acres and an additional 758,000 acres of land are under conservation…
By Tom Woodman On an August day that was sweltering even in the Adirondacks, a woman from Troy entered the waters of Schroon Lake, tears running down her cheeks, and sat in the water, escaping the heat and basking in the views of the mountains across the lake. Attended closely by her son, and surrounded…
By Phil Brown
I’m looking forward to gathering with fellow writers for a book signing at the Mountaineer in Keene Valley on Thursday, though I may feel a little out of place among the likes of Russell Banks, Chase Twitchell, Bill McKibben, and Jerry Jenkins. The Mountaineer recently expanded its book department and hopes that Thursday’s book signing…
The bobcat, an elusive and beautiful Adirondack neighbor, has managed to do what the wolf and the cougar could not. It has held its own against the trophy hunters, fur traders, and those who through fear or misplaced sense of sport take aim at the wild predator. In the Adirondack Park and other regions of…
Recently the Adirondack Explorer reported on the decline of Lake George, pointing to shoreline and upland development and the lack of adequate land-use controls by the Lake George Park Commission. The water is still clean, pure, drinkable, and rated as AA Special. The lake is still one of the cleanest and clearest in the state,…
I just read an article in the Adirondack Explorer [May/June 2012] about a proposal to extend the trapping of bobcats. I wholeheartedly oppose any trapping of this animal. As a resident of New Jersey, but a frequent visitor to the Adirondacks, I see no purpose in this trapping which causes so much suffering to the…
Lou Curth’s concern that children are no longer interested in nature is cause for enormous worry [“Rangers do more than search,” May/June 2012]. It’s yet another indication that personal computers are threatening to take over and we humans are becoming subservient. Habitat for Humanity has a thrift shop here in Pittsboro, North Carolina. I asked…