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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…
Anyone who drives in the Adirondacks in winter understands the need to reduce ice on the roadways. We have to keep our roads open and safe both for the sake of our drivers and an economy that depends on transportation. At the same time, anyone who considers the environmental and financial cost of strewing road…
House Republicans are doing everything they can to stop the EPA from implementing court-ordered regulations to control mercury discharges from coal-fired power plants. These regulations have been in the works for nearly a decade and are long overdue. Mercury is poisoning life in the Adirondacks. Every year Midwest coal-fired plants spew out fifty tons of…
Early in Brian Mann’s article on the Adirondack Club and Resort [“Forest impacts debated,” November/December 2011] he appears to give equal weight to the views of Adirondack ecologist Dr. Michale Glennon and Oregon State University Dean Hal Salwasser. While Salwasser is no doubt a distinguished forest ecologist, he has hardly devoted a good part of…
Congratulations to Paul Grondahl on his superb article on Anne Labastille [September/October 2011]. I knew Anne personally for thirty years through our membership in the New York State Outdoor Guides Association, in which we were both charter members, and from the many book signings and shows we did together as fellow authors and outdoor writers.…
I have been following the rails-versus-trails debate closely and would like to express the opinion of a person who was been sitting in a wheelchair for over twenty-five years. I am paralyzed from the waist down as the result of a car accident, own my own home, and consider myself to be a pretty independent…