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By Tom Woodman Think back on a favorite excursion in the Adirondack wilderness, and if you were lucky a forest ranger played a cameo role. Maybe you encountered him on the trail and he filled you in on the conditions farther on. Or maybe she was advising hikers at a busy trailhead on the right…
Getting your tween and teenage daughters out for a hike isn’t easy, especially when they’ve just started a new school year and are already running cross-country. By Winnie Yu.
On January 20, seven years after it was first proposed, an application for a misbegotten sprawl of a development in Tupper Lake known as the Adirondack Club and Resort won approval from the Adirondack Park Agency. The project became marginally less bad during a process that included more than a year of failed mediation, hearings…
Bobcats are intelligent and extremely elusive native cats in the Adirondacks. Everyone who sees one brags about it, as many of us have spent our whole lives roaming the forests seeing only tracks in winter, when we are lucky. The state Department of Environmental Conservation wants to allow longer hunting and trapping seasons for bobcats…
The Adirondack rail/recreational trail controversy continues to command attention in the media, and it appears a substantial number of people favor removing the existing track to establish a multi-use recreational trail from Lake Placid to Tupper Lake. These advocates fail to consider the long-term consequences of track removal. The existing track, if restored, would provide…
My family loves to visit the Adirondacks once or twice a year—it is my children’s favorite place to go. Over the years we have taken advantage of many activities the area has to offer—biking, hiking, skiing, snowmobiling, camping, canoeing, you name it. We recently learned of the campaign to convert the old railroad tracks to…
I hope the Adirondack Club and Resort is a great success, but having visited the Adirondacks for sixty years I very much doubt that it will be. The poor folks of Tupper Lake and the state taxpayers will be burdened with another bailout. Any real-estate agent will tell you it’s all about location, location, location.…
I just finished my first digital edition of Adirondack Explorer on my iPad. Having known the Explorer for years in newsprint all I can say is WOW!!! The photography was unbelievable! (Even the ads looked remarkable.) Jon Holiner, Levittown
By Tom Woodman Years ago my wife and I sat out a week’s vacation in our Adirondack cabin, watching a lovely snowscape evaporate into the dripping fog of a winter thaw. We tried to buck up our spirits by declaring that this scene was not really dismal. It was a different kind of beauty. This…
By Tom Woodman For an inspirational speaker this guy was sounding like a downer. Climate change is more advanced than predicted just a few years ago. We are already seeing irreversible environmental effects from global warming. The United States remains dangerously dependent on fossil fuels even as energy companies resort to more expensive and environmentally…