Nature and Environment

I know I’m not the only one who took on chickens as a pandemic project. Tomatoes and raspberries too. But the big one...

North Country weather has always been a wild ride of ups and downs, and climate change hasn’t made it any easier to p...

It is snowing, the flakes descending in endless, languorous swirls. Seemingly from nowhere, the snowplows emerge—yell...

Even if you don’t see a striped skunk waddle by, you can certainly smell it.

To be sure, there is perhaps no better place to see peregrines strut their stuff than in the Adirondacks.

On the evening of January 2nd, Lake Placid attorney Amy Quinn took her dogs for a walk in her quiet neighborhood behi...

"I tell my kids,” says Tom Conrad, “that when smelt are running, it’s a signal of spring, when everything wakes up af...

After eradication in the Lower 48, wolves are now thriving in some Rocky Mountain states. The animals had disappeared...

Terry Watson is usually much more careful. But when the chance to skitter across frozen Copperas Pond in search of bi...

For the last week I’ve been in the Adirondacks, not visiting my new land. My land is just a couple miles up a hill fr...

The Adirondacks, with its varied forests and numerous lakes and streams, is an ideal habitat for the only hummingbird...

Passing through a forest it’s easy to focus on the familiar, the exceptional. Is that deafening teacher, teacher call...