Return of the wolf?
By Mike Lynch
November 20, 2022
The discovery of a gray wolf about 25 miles from the Adirondacks has galvanized wolf advocates in the park.
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By Mike Lynch
November 20, 2022
The discovery of a gray wolf about 25 miles from the Adirondacks has galvanized wolf advocates in the park.
By Mike Lynch
September 21, 2022
This is the second lab that has come to this conclusion regarding an 85-pound canid killed in December.
By Mike Lynch
April 11, 2019
I got a call earlier this week from a man who says a cougar in late March on state Route 28n in Minerva, a quiet area in the central Adirondacks.
May 14, 2018
I enjoyed your story on eastern cougars. Regarding reintroducing new species, how about another try at restoring elk to the Adirondacks. Even better, European red deer, which are halfway between elk and white-tailed deer in size. They are majestic and a great game species and adapt easily. Terry Wespestad, Pequannock, NJ
April 24, 2018
I do not believe reintroduction in northeastern states would be successful in the long run unless all states with significant wildlands participate. Trying to introduce cougar by creating a single “island” of breeders in one state would likely have poor long-term results. But if several islands in different states are created throughout the Northeast that…
By Phil Brown
February 27, 2018
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service concluded in January that the eastern cougar is extinct and so removed it from the federal list of endangered species. The odd thing, though, is that the eastern cougar may never have existed.
By Phil Brown
January 25, 2018
It’s official: the eastern cougar is extinct. That’s what the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service decreed this week. And since it doesn’t exist, the eastern cougar was removed from the federal list of endangered and threatened species. The odd thing, though, is that the eastern cougar per se may never have existed. The ruling was…
By Phil Brown
November 20, 2017
The new volume collects nearly sixty essays by an esteemed Adirondack historian.
September 1, 2017
The mission of John Davis is not entirely dissimilar to that of the biblical Noah. Davis is out to protect a broad platform of species in an unconventional way that faces both long odds and more than a few arched eyebrows. The central idea is that up and down the lands that parallel the Eastern…
July 30, 2016
By PHILIP TERRIE On a snowy winter night in Lake George, in 2010, Cindy Eggleston’s motion-detecting light came on in her back yard. She looked out her kitchen window and saw a big cat. A really big cat. Her husband, a retired conservation officer, guessed that it must have been a bobcat. No, she said,…