“Disabled Access,” or the Elimination of Wilderness
I'm a disabled person who has always had a difficult time accessing wilderness, but did it anyway to the best of my ability (mostly by canoe). These days I am mostly bedridden and cannot even [...]
A Review of “Climate Change in the Adirondacks – The Path to Sustainability”
A review of "Climate Change in the Adirondacks – The Path to Sustainability", by Jerry Jenkins, published in 2010 by Cornell University Press. Jerry Jenkins, author of the amazingly comprehensive "The Adirondack Atlas," has, once [...]
What’s a Crow?
"What's a crow?" he asked me. Twenty-one years old, raised in the Adirondacks and didn't know what a crow was. "Have you ever camped? Skied Gore? Rafted the Hudson River? Hiked in the High Peaks?" [...]
Free Heat From The Ground
The heat for our house comes from the ground in our front yard. How is this possible? It is made possible by using a ground source heat pump (GSHP). We have a 650 foot deep [...]
Bobcat Management Plan, Bad Science!
Protect the Adirondacks! PO Box 4124 Schenectady, New York 12304 New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Bureau of Wildlife 625 Broadway Albany, New York By e-mail RE: Bobcat Management Plan To Whom it May [...]
PROTECT In The New York Times: In the Adirondacks, Joy and Fear Over What A Resort…
February 8, 2012 In the Adirondacks, Joy and Fear Over What a Resort May Bring By LISA W. FODERARO TUPPER LAKE, N.Y. — This once-proud logging town in the northern Adirondacks has an embarrassment of [...]
A Trapper’s Last Trap
Backwoods Journal 1962 From "On Being Humble" …Now, the trapping of wild animals is a cruel business even under the best of conditions, and the best of conditions do not usually prevail (at least, as [...]
Living with Solar
I have been living in a solar powered and solar heated home for the past 17 years. If I count the previous 5 – 7 years when I lived in remote non-electrified cabins, then I'm [...]
Why Do We Let Snowmobiles Drive On “Forever Wild” Forest Preserve?
Not only are 1,000 pound, $10,000, 100 mile per hour machines being allowed to drive on forest preserve lands which were to be kept wild forever, but now three ton tracked groomers will be driving [...]
How to Run a Snowshoe Social Club
The club really started years ago when Dick Carlson, at that time the manager of Garnet Hill Ski Center, noticed senior citizens exercising by walking along the shoulder of the road. He thought they should [...]