Nature and Environment

It’s Erik Danielson’s 30th birthday. He strides purposefully, pack on his back, along a shoulder of Route 3 near Ampe...

When Maureen Clark and her husband, Paul Madden, volunteered to have trail cameras installed on their Forestport prop...

When I was a kid, I thought I had discovered the perfect answer to the “What do you want to be when you grow up?” que...

On a typical summer evening the Cranberry Lake Biological Station has a quiet hum of activity: ecology students at wo...

"Miss Perkins, can I get seconds?" asked the kindergartner, raising her hand.

Baby snapping turtles emerge from soft soil as summer ends and autumn begins.

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...