By the Numbers

By the Numbers

by | 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...
The Secret Life of Ponds

The Secret Life of Ponds

by | Apr 27, 2017 | June 2015

A pond can seem to be many things. A fishing hole. A fallen piece of sky. A secret lair of magical beasts and ancestors. To some of us a pond might be a lake instead, because there is no consistent definition of those labels based on size, outflow or anything else...
Staying Alive

Staying Alive

by | Dec 8, 2016 | December 2013, Nature and Environment

Photograph by Robert Lubeck   How plants survive the Adirondack winter Long before the snow flies, all but the hardiest birds have left, the bears are deep in slumber, insects have transformed to protective pupae and toads have buried themselves deep in the mud....