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 Adirondack Life | 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...
by Annie Stoltie | Dec 6, 2022 | December 2022
Just after Christmas some years ago, a coyote emerged from a stand of evergreens on Pamela Underhill Karaz’s property near Barneveld. Wildlife sightings on Karaz’s 40 acres in the southwestern Adirondacks were nothing new, but she grabbed her camera and watched as the...
by Bob Yunick | 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...
by Annie Stoltie | 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,...
by Elizabeth Folwell | 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...
by Annie Stoltie | May 23, 2016 | Guide to the Great Outdoors 2016, Nature and Environment
Eastern timber rattlesnake photograph by Johnathan Esper Adirondack snake encounters Photographer Johnathan Esper has traveled the world. In recent years he’s stayed months at a time in Iceland, where he teaches visitors how and where to shoot the stunning...