by Adirondack Life | Apr 27, 2023 | June 2023, Nature and Environment
Little brown bat photograph from Shutterstock Why should you care about bats? “Besides the fact they’re cute,” says bat researcher Vanessa Rojas, assistant professor at SUNY-ESF Ranger School, based in Wanakena, “the ecosystem services they provide are critical. Bats...
by Robin Wall Kimmerer | Oct 20, 2020 | April 2016, Nature and Environment
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?” question. The long hike up the mountain, the snug little cabin and the crowning glory of a fire tower with a 360-degree view, plus an occasional hiker...
by Paul Greenberg | Mar 5, 2020 | 50th Anniversary 2019
How Four Fish author Paul Greenberg made his Adirondack summers count On a hot, oppressive day in the summer of 1988, an ecologist’s Chesapeake Bay retriever named Muddy made off with my socks and trotted to the end of a log that jutted into Little Howard Pond. The...
by Lisa W. Foderaro | Jun 7, 2018 | June 2018, Nature and Environment
This 15,000-acre private preserve is an ideal laboratory to explore the mysteries of the Adirondacks’ complex ecosystems For someone coming from the suburbs of New York City, the first thing that jumps out at Shingle Shanty Preserve is the silence. It washes...