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 [...]
Protect the Adirondacks! PO Box 4124 Schenectady, New York 12304 New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Bureau of Wildlife 625 Broadway Albany, New York By e-mail RE: Bobcat Management Plan To Whom it May [...]
February 8, 2012 In the Adirondacks, Joy and Fear Over What a Resort May Bring By LISA W. FODERARO TUPPER LAKE, N.Y. — This once-proud logging town in the northern Adirondacks has an embarrassment of [...]
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 [...]
Not only are 1,000 pound, $10,000, 100 mile per hour machines being allowed to drive on forest preserve lands which were to be kept wild forever, but now three ton tracked groomers will be driving [...]
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 [...]
RAY BROOK, NY—The decision by the Adirondack Park Agency (APA) to approve the massive Adirondack Club and Resort (ACR) project is an abdication of the Agency's legal responsibility to uphold state law, according to one [...]