In my work for the National Park Service I have seen the extrapolation of the Adirondacks' Blue Line in California and in Great Britain. When the Adirondack Park was created, the State of New York [...]
By Lorraine Duvall At the APA September 10th meeting when the Board was considering the plan to designate part of the Lows Lake bed and its waters as wilderness, Commissioner Lani Ulrich expressed concern that [...]
I'm a disabled person who has always had a difficult time accessing wilderness, but did it anyway to the best of my ability (mostly by canoe). These days I am mostly bedridden and cannot even [...]
A review of "Climate Change in the Adirondacks – The Path to Sustainability", by Jerry Jenkins, published in 2010 by Cornell University Press. Jerry Jenkins, author of the amazingly comprehensive "The Adirondack Atlas," has, once [...]
"What's a crow?" he asked me. Twenty-one years old, raised in the Adirondacks and didn't know what a crow was. "Have you ever camped? Skied Gore? Rafted the Hudson River? Hiked in the High Peaks?" [...]
The heat for our house comes from the ground in our front yard. How is this possible? It is made possible by using a ground source heat pump (GSHP). We have a 650 foot deep [...]
Backwoods Journal 1962 From "On Being Humble" …Now, the trapping of wild animals is a cruel business even under the best of conditions, and the best of conditions do not usually prevail (at least, as [...]
I have been living in a solar powered and solar heated home for the past 17 years. If I count the previous 5 – 7 years when I lived in remote non-electrified cabins, then I'm [...]
The club really started years ago when Dick Carlson, at that time the manager of Garnet Hill Ski Center, noticed senior citizens exercising by walking along the shoulder of the road. He thought they should [...]