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Migration2013: The Adirondack Winter Experience

An environmental education project called Migration 2013 was started by the Haudenosaunee Environmental Task Force and seeks to provide native high school students in upstate New York with outdoor experiences that build leadership skills and cultivate informed decisions about environmental issues. (11/6)

Plan Aims at Energy Independence for Adirondacks

The Adirondack Climate Action Plan is a strategy to enable the Adirondack region to become energy independent within the next 20 years. (10/29)

Keeping up with the Proverbial Beaver

Beavers were nearly extirpated statewide in the early 1900s but they have rebounded to become a driving force in New York's ecosystems. (10/27)

A Bird in the Hand

The maturation of the state's forests has been cited widely as the cause of grouse decline because it is eliminating the best habitat for the bird, which thrives in an early successional forest. Researchers are studying what drives this phenomenon and the mechanisms that contribute to grouse loss from specific areas. (10/15)

Canal at Round Pond Provides History Lesson

A short, straight waterway north of Catlin Lake that is all that remains of a failed plan to enhance travel and commerce in the central Adirondacks. (9/28)

To Row or not to Row

Gordon Fisher hand-carved a guide boat paddle that follows Caleb Chase's own design. (9/22)

Northern Forest Institute Marks Its First Year

The Northern Forest Institute for Conservation Education and Leadership Training (NFI) is involved in a project to increase the time children spend in nature. (9/16)