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Ranger School Events

Summer 2008 Lecture Series

Printable version (PDF)

• June 12
  An Inconvenient Truth and You: Local Solutions to the Climate Crisis
  Mike Brennan, Environmental Educator, & Director of APA Visitor Interpretive Center at Paul Smiths
  
  Mike’s program will be based on U.S. Vice President Al Gore’s global-warming lecture, made famous by the Academy Award-winning film, “An Inconvenient Truth.” During the presentation, the audience members will learn what they can do to become part of the global-warming solution at home and in their communities. The slideshow presentation is based on Gore’s global-warming education initiative sponsored by The Climate Project, which is headquartered in Nashville, Tenn.  In the spring of 2007, Gore trained Brennan and hundreds of other educators from around the U.S. to develop their own global-warming presentations and spread the word about the climate crisis in their hometowns and surrounding communities. Brennan is now traveling around the Adirondack North Country region, giving programs to a variety of groups.

• July 10
  “The Cranberry Lake 50:”  The Challenge & Promise of a New 50-mile Hiking Loop Around Cranberry Lake
  Sherman Craig, Chair, Five Ponds Partners, & Jamie Savage, Professor, SUNY-ESF Ranger School
  
  The NYS-DEC, the Adirondack Park Agency, the Adirondack Mountain Club, and a local, volunteer group known as the Five Pond Partners, have been working together over the last few years to develop a loop trail around Cranberry Lake.  The goals of the project are to improve the stewardship of the recreational resources in the Five Ponds Wilderness and Cranberry Lake Wild Forest and to stimulate the local economy by attracting more visitors to the northwest Adirondacks.  During this presentation, Sherm and Jamie will discuss and/or display trail history, trail maps, trail photos, the trail brochure, the trail website, and future plans and expectations for the Cranberry Lake 50.

• July 24
  Management of the Ranger School’s James F. Dubuar Forest for teaching, demonstration, research and recreation
  Bob Davis, Director, SUNY-ESF Forest Properties
  
  The 2,800-acre Dubuar Forest, located in Wanakena, NY, is one of several properties owned and managed by ESF.  Like many ‘working’ forests, it is managed for multiple products and benefits, like timber, firewood, maple syrup, wildlife diversity and recreation.  The Dubuar’s primary role, however, is to provide teaching, demonstration and research opportunities for ESF students, faculty, and staff.  Other organizations, agencies, and institutions also make use of the property for workshops, field trips, and short courses.  In his new role as Director of Forest Properties, Bob Davis is responsible for the management of 25,000 acres of College-owned land, including the Dubuar Forest.  Bob will overview a recently-updated management plan for the Dubuar, and discuss details of some upcoming projects and initiatives.

• August 7
  In Search Of Pristine Ponds: The Adirondack Heritage Lake Project
  Curt Stager, Professor, Paul Smith’s College
  
  Dr. Stager’s main field of research is paleolimnology, which is the study of lake ecosystems on time scales ranging from decades to millenia.  He uses the remains of diatoms (single-celled algae with glassy, decay-resistant shells or "frustules") to reconstruct the history of chemical and/or physical conditions in lakes, and from that infers information about past human activites in the watershed, food web dynamics, climate change, solar variability, evolution, and whatever else can be gleaned from the sediment record.  Curt’s paleo research has taken him to the Great Lakes of the East African Rift Valley region, Cameroon's crater lakes, and various waters in Sweden, North Carolina, and the Adirondacks.  In this presentation, we will learn what ‘heritage lakes’ are, and whether there are any such lakes in the Adirondacks.

7:30—8:30 p.m.

Lectures will be held in the main classroom at the Ranger School 257 Ranger School Road, Wanakena, New York

Lectures are Free and Open to the Public—Refreshments served !