Bark Eaters

Bark Eaters

by | Oct 25, 2018 | Nature and Environment, October 2018

photograph from iStock   How beavers are reshaping Adirondack forests On April 27, 1905, a four-man “Army of Liberation” departed from Old Forge for the Fourth Lake of the Fulton Chain, two zinc-lined crates stowed aboard their rowboats. After a day of rowing,...
Vanishing Acts

Vanishing Acts

by | Mar 23, 2017 | June 2016

What do we know and how do we know it? For a naturalist documenting the Adirondacks in the 19th century, that job was as vast as the wilderness itself and systematic scientific inquiry was nearly as mysterious. Scrutinizing millions of acres to enumerate elusive...