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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...

Last spring, during the Meghan Markle and Prince Harry wedding extravaganza, some media outlets looking to translate ...

“Our stomachs live in towns.… That is where the work is. Our stomachs know this. But our hearts are usually somewhere...

If what Harvard historian Laurel Thacher Urlich said is true, that “well-behaved women seldom make history,” then one...

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

Half my life ago I spent summer weekends at a family camp on Lake Ozonia, with perch-catching extravaganzas, epic cam...

The woodchucks disappear. It happens gradually, the family of “Woodys,” as my kids call them, no longer sunning thems...

What if a million acres of Adirondack forestland caught fire? That’s about the size of Franklin County and more squar...

When Sarah and Josh Vaillancourt talk about farming, they aren’t just talking about producing food. Sure, that’s part...

What do we know and how do we know it? For a naturalist documenting the Adirondacks in the 19th century, that job was...

January 3, 2015, was a fantastic ice day on Lake Champlain. Seven of us, all veteran wild-ice skaters, put in at Lamp...

Finding the New Land Trust can be a journey in itself, a series of shrinking roads that wind up from the small hamlet...