Looking Up Annie Stoltie It’s Erik Danielson’s 30th birthday. He strides purposefully, pack on his back, along a shoulder of Route 3 near Ampe... Read More
Animal Crossing Norah Machia When Maureen Clark and her husband, Paul Madden, volunteered to have trail cameras installed on their Forestport prop... Read More
The Legacy of Fire: Creative Destruction in Adirondack Forests Robin Wall Kimmerer 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... Read More
Where the Land Is Teacher Robin Wall Kimmerer On a typical summer evening the Cranberry Lake Biological Station has a quiet hum of activity: ecology students at wo... Read More
Edible Education Shane Mitchell "Miss Perkins, can I get seconds?" asked the kindergartner, raising her hand. Read More
Up and Coming Curt Stager Baby snapping turtles emerge from soft soil as summer ends and autumn begins. Read More
A Ranger Problem Luke Cyphers A s the first half of 2020 has shown, New York State Forest Rangers are blessed, and burdened, with a wide-ranging po... Read More
Winging It Dorian Gossy Why do we find things in nature beautiful? Bright colors? Dainty grace? Awe? It’s probably different for each of us, ... Read More
The Big Chill Curt Stager Imagine an environmental challenge to the Adirondacks harsher than acid rain, invasive species and global warming com... Read More
Giants of the Forest Lisa W. Foderaro Moose. They are so much a part of the iconography of the Adirondacks that you would think the state’s largest land ma... Read More
Ice Out Gwendolyn Craig Just as parents measure their children’s height over the years, marking it with a notch and a date in a doorway, Pete... Read More
Bark Eaters Ben Goldfarb On April 27, 1905, a four-man “Army of Liberation” departed from Old Forge for the Fourth Lake of the Fulton Chain, t... Read More