A nine-part series that tells the story of the at-times contentious campaign to create the Adirondack Park Agency
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Special Reports
What effect have dams had on two of the parks’ important rivers, the Boquet and the Saranac? As beautiful as these rivers are and as...
More than a decade ago, New York State planned trails and other improvements for the conservation easement it bought on the Sable Highlands. Not much...
When homeowners have found salt in their tap water, any delay—even hoping to get the government’s help instead of going to court—can be fatal to...
An Adirondack Explorer investigation found that across upstate New York, road salt has seeped into drinking water supplies, poisoned wells, endangered public health and threatened...
Bacteria in Champlain—cupped by New York, Vermont and Quebec—are feeding on polluted runoff from around the lake, especially Vermont’s dairyland, and thriving in water that...
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VISION 2050 – Fulfilling the Promise of the Adirondack Park
The Adirondack Council today unveiled a new long-range vision for the Adirondack Park in a publication entitled Adirondack VISION 2050, offering recommendations for how to preserve the park’s ecology, sustain its small villages and hamlets, and improve park management by the middle of this century........Read more.
