At our annual meeting in 1991, one of the forerunners of Protect the Adirondacks, the Residents' Committee to Protect the Adirondacks (RCPA), led Yngvar Isachsen, the prominent NYS Museum geologist, to a "tafone"--one of the [...]

The 5 miles of the Raquette River from Axton Landing to Raquette Falls is one of the most beautiful stretches of river in the Adirondack Park -- a place with hundreds of miles of beautiful [...]

For New York's Adirondack Park to be indisputably the wildest, healthiest landscape in the East, we need to welcome home Cougars and Wolves. Although Adirondack forests have recovered beautifully from past destruction, and with them [...]

South Inlet on Raquette Lake is an easy and beautiful paddle. The return in scenic beauty, calm flat water paddling, fishing, and natural wonders is very high for a short amount of work. The put-in [...]

There is an ongoing debate in forestry and ecological circles about the role of young versus old forests in absorbing carbon dioxide, and consequently, sequestering carbon to help stabilize the climate. The long prevailing belief [...]

In 2006, massive die-offs of hibernating bats was first detected. Estimates quickly found that 75% or more of known bats populations had died due to a mysterious new ailment that has since identified as White-Nose [...]

The bitter cold temperatures across the Adirondacks in the first few days of 2014 have been a boon for the manufacture of frazil ice in the Hudson River, from the Hudson Gorge to The Glen, [...]

Peering deep into the brown waters of Lens Lake, I squint to keep track of the black and white Secchi disk as it sinks. There! A cloud of organic debris temporarily obscures the disk as [...]

Most folks, if asked, would say, "Sure, I love nature." Who doesn't love grass and trees and flowers and birds and butterflies and such? I certainly do. Always have. I grew up in a Michigan [...]