Preserving Our Night Skies Paul Greenberg On the evening of January 2nd, Lake Placid attorney Amy Quinn took her dogs for a walk in her quiet neighborhood behi... Read More
“When Smelt Are Running, It’s a Signal of Spring.” Adirondack Life "I tell my kids,” says Tom Conrad, “that when smelt are running, it’s a signal of spring, when everything wakes up af... Read More
Could Wolves Repopulate the Adirondacks? David Lee Drotar After eradication in the Lower 48, wolves are now thriving in some Rocky Mountain states. The animals had disappeared... Read More
Ice-fishing’s a Way of Life for this Veteran Adirondack Guide Paul Greenberg Terry Watson is usually much more careful. But when the chance to skitter across frozen Copperas Pond in search of bi... Read More
Shopping for the Apocalypse Paul Greenberg 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... Read More
Small Wonders Bob Yunick The Adirondacks, with its varied forests and numerous lakes and streams, is an ideal habitat for the only hummingbird... Read More
Fungus Among Us Elizabeth Folwell Passing through a forest it’s easy to focus on the familiar, the exceptional. Is that deafening teacher, teacher call... Read More
Birds of Summer Jeff Nadler I awoke in near-darkness to chirping, peeping and tweeting—the “dawn chorus.” I sat up in my sleeping bag where I was... Read More
On the Edge Annie Stoltie August 28, 2011, as water flooded the Upper Jay firehouse, volunteer firefighters Ralph Schissler and Dennis Perpetua... Read More
Power to the People David Sommerstein Emmett and Ethan Smith are on a mission to change the way you think about the electricity that powers your house—to t... Read More
Farm-to-Pump Luke McNally Farmer Dillon Klepetar scratched his head through a wool cap, holding an oversized wrench in his other hand. He’d bee... Read More
Camera Shy Larry Master Ninety minutes after sunrise on a spring morning, I arrived at a High Peaks lodge with hopes of photographing one of ... Read More