To the Rescue

To the Rescue

by | Jan 3, 2023 | February 2023, Nature and Environment

Photograph by Eric Teed   North Country weather has always been a wild ride of ups and downs, and climate change hasn’t made it any easier to predict—just ask the loons. In recent years Dr. Nina Schoch, executive director of the Adirondack Center for Loon...
Small Wonders

Small Wonders

by | Dec 8, 2021 | June 2021, Nature and Environment

photograph courtesy of the author Tracking ruby-throated hummingbirds The Adirondacks, with its varied forests and numerous lakes and streams, is an ideal habitat for the only hummingbird species that breeds in eastern North America, the ruby-throated hummingbird...
Adirondack Vampires

Adirondack Vampires

by | May 21, 2020 | Guide to the Great Outdoors 2020

Photograph from iStock Learning to live with leeches After years of living along the East Branch of the Ausable River, wading in its ankle-deep shallows and swimming its sandy-bottomed stretches, I’ve accepted leeches as part of the Adirondack package. My kids do,...

Tracks

by | Oct 8, 2019 | December 2009

Moosed opportunity on a well-worn trail The French word for moose is orignal. Like original, as a French-Canadian woodsman explained to me 20 years ago, when I came to Adirondack Life. The moose was the first project in the Creator’s repertoire. After putting the legs...