4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (118+ words) John Sheehan, director of communications for the Adirondack Council, discusses challenges the organization has never seen before, including cuts by the Environmental Protection Agency to water quality protection efforts in the region. Sheehan shares how these funding cuts have significant…...

5+ day, 9+ hour ago   (195+ words) In addition to being a bit of an outlier with regard to its social life, the solitary sandpiper stands alone among North American sandpipers in its nesting behavior; it uses abandoned songbird nests in Canadian and Alaskan boreal forests, typically…...

6+ day, 9+ hour ago   (631+ words) I was fortunate to know Arthur Masten Crocker within the ranks of the Association for the Protection of the Adirondacks, where he was president, chair, and honorary chair, and I was the group’s executive director. In 1998, we presented Arthur with…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (261+ words) The video was captured accidentally while the duo was filming scenes on Lake Champlain for their feature film, “Lucy and the Lake Monster.” While Rossi and Tabor are convinced that the footage displays the historic resident lake monster, they are…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (789+ words) A federal judge has struck down New York’s Climate Change Superfund Act, ruling that it is “simply beyond the limits of state law.” U.S. District Court Chief Judge Brenda K. Sannes stopped short of declaring the statute is unconstitutional,…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (423+ words) Theodore Roosevelt–known in Adirondack circles as TR–protected 234 million acres during his presidency, roughly 10% of all land in the United States. These protections included federal bird reserves, as well as national forests, game reserves, monuments and parks, making him…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (173+ words) Monarch butterflies advertise their toxicity through their brilliant orange and black wings. The milkweed tussock moth, on the other hand, has dull gray-brown wings that mask an orange and black abdomen. So why has the moth reduced its brilliant larval…...

2+ week, 9+ hour ago   (439+ words) Keith’s recommendation has origins dating back to the Commission on the Adirondacks in the 21st Century 1990 final report, which stated (Recommendation 42): “Basic to the Adirondack park Agency Act was the idea that local governments would be full partners in the administration…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (211+ words) New York State Sen. Pete Harckham hosted a roundtable in Albany in partnership with the Adirondack Council for lake associations and environmental advocates to discuss the growing challenges facing lake communities across New York State. The roundtable provided an opportunity…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (431+ words) A famously muddy section of the Northville–Placid Trail that passes by Mud Lake in the West Canada Lake Wilderness was moved to higher ground this summer, a reroute regional foresters hope will keep beavers from flooding the trail and…...