Kathleen Suozzo’s work is at the heart of one of the more difficult issues facing the Adirondacks today: upgrading aging waste-water and drinking-water treatment facilities in small communities where the cost is borne on the backs of local residents, … [Read more...] about Kathleen Suozzo
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Park Perspectives: Not your average peak bagger
By Tom Woodman In some circles the label peak bagger has a negative, almost sneering, connotation. The criticism is that these hikers are so intent on checking names off lists of mountain ascents that they overlook a deeper experience of being in … [Read more...] about Park Perspectives: Not your average peak bagger
Park Perspectives: Soaring for science
By Tom Woodman “Lake Placid control: experimental craft, eight, four, one Echo Mike preparing to take off…” Driving to meet Ed McNeil this morning I worried that after thirty-six years in journalism I might be in danger of violating one of my … [Read more...] about Park Perspectives: Soaring for science
Park Perspectives: Stories at his fingertips
For centuries Lake Champlain has been a thoroughfare for history. Naval engagements helped determine the outcomes of the Revolutionary War and War of 1812. In the nineteenth century, a thriving iron industry used canal boats to transport ore down the … [Read more...] about Park Perspectives: Stories at his fingertips
Park Perspectives: A jack-of-all-trades
Around 2 a.m. on a stormy night in August 2013, vicious winds from a microburst exploded onto the southeast shoreline of Upper Saranac Lake, directly onto the property of Mary Watson. The winds ripped trees into piles along a … [Read more...] about Park Perspectives: A jack-of-all-trades
Park Perspectives: Bill, the rattlesnake guy
For thirty-six years Bill Brown has been tramping over the mountains, foothills, and lowlands of the Lake George Wild Forest keeping tabs on old acquaintances and meeting new ones in out-of the way crevices, under rocks, or wandering … [Read more...] about Park Perspectives: Bill, the rattlesnake guy