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
Return of the Natives Paul Greenberg Fishing is all about longing. The angler wading into the center of the Fisherman’s Pool in the town of Willsboro expr... Read More
Shingle Shanty Lisa W. Foderaro For someone coming from the suburbs of New York City, the first thing that jumps out at Shingle Shanty Preserve is th... Read More
Caw of the Wild Curt Stager Adirondackers who love ravens and crows are cautiously optimistic. For the most part, life is good for “corvids” (mem... Read More
Staying Alive Robin Wall Kimmerer Long before the snow flies, all but the hardiest birds have left, the bears are deep in slumber, insects have transfor... Read More
VIDEO: Rattlesnake Encounter in Lake George Adirondack Life Photographer Johnathan Esper was hiking near Lake George when he nearly stepped on what he thought was a tree root. W... Read More
Rattled Annie Stoltie Eastern timber rattlesnake photograph by Johnathan Esper Adirondack snake encounters Photographer Johnathan Es... Read More