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
Taking Off Annie Stoltie Last spring, during the Meghan Markle and Prince Harry wedding extravaganza, some media outlets looking to translate ... Read More
The Improbable County Eliza Jane Darling “Our stomachs live in towns.… That is where the work is. Our stomachs know this. But our hearts are usually somewhere... Read More
The Other Durant Sheila Myers If what Harvard historian Laurel Thacher Urlich said is true, that “well-behaved women seldom make history,” then one... 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
A Piece of the Park Annie Stoltie Half my life ago I spent summer weekends at a family camp on Lake Ozonia, with perch-catching extravaganzas, epic cam... Read More
Seasonal Disorder Annie Stoltie The woodchucks disappear. It happens gradually, the family of “Woodys,” as my kids call them, no longer sunning thems... Read More
High Profile Annie Stoltie What if a million acres of Adirondack forestland caught fire? That’s about the size of Franklin County and more squar... Read More
Origin Story Shaun Kittle When Sarah and Josh Vaillancourt talk about farming, they aren’t just talking about producing food. Sure, that’s part... Read More
Vanishing Acts Elizabeth Folwell What do we know and how do we know it? For a naturalist documenting the Adirondacks in the 19th century, that job was... Read More
Double Jeopardy Adirondack Life January 3, 2015, was a fantastic ice day on Lake Champlain. Seven of us, all veteran wild-ice skaters, put in at Lamp... Read More
The Saranac Experiment Joe Connelly Finding the New Land Trust can be a journey in itself, a series of shrinking roads that wind up from the small hamlet... Read More