Nature and Environment

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...

I awoke in near-darkness to chirping, peeping and tweeting—the “dawn chorus.” I sat up in my sleeping bag where I was...

August 28, 2011, as water flooded the Upper Jay firehouse, volunteer firefighters Ralph Schissler and Dennis Perpetua...

Emmett and Ethan Smith are on a mission to change the way you think about the electricity that powers your house—to t...

Farmer Dillon Klepetar scratched his head through a wool cap, holding an oversized wrench in his other hand. He’d bee...

Ninety minutes after sunrise on a spring morning, I arrived at a High Peaks lodge with hopes of photographing one of ...