Nature and Environment

A s the first half of 2020 has shown, New York State Forest Rangers are blessed, and burdened, with a wide-ranging po...

Why do we find things in nature beautiful? Bright colors? Dainty grace? Awe? It’s probably different for each of us, ...

Imagine an environmental challenge to the Adirondacks harsher than acid rain, invasive species and global warming com...

Moose. They are so much a part of the iconography of the Adirondacks that you would think the state’s largest land ma...

Just as parents measure their children’s height over the years, marking it with a notch and a date in a doorway, Pete...

On April 27, 1905, a four-man “Army of Liberation” departed from Old Forge for the Fourth Lake of the Fulton Chain, t...

Fishing is all about longing. The angler wading into the center of the Fisherman’s Pool in the town of Willsboro expr...

For someone coming from the suburbs of New York City, the first thing that jumps out at Shingle Shanty Preserve is th...

Adirondackers who love ravens and crows are cautiously optimistic. For the most part, life is good for “corvids” (mem...

Long before the snow flies, all but the hardiest birds have left, the bears are deep in slumber, insects have transfor...

Photographer Johnathan Esper was hiking near Lake George when he nearly stepped on what he thought was a tree root. W...

Eastern timber rattlesnake photograph by Johnathan Esper   Adirondack snake encounters Photographer Johnathan Es...