Adirondack Explorer: Environment, Communities and Outdoor …
网页Adirondack Explorer reports on the intersections between the natural world and the built environment, through the lens of the unique 6-million acre Adirondack Park in Northern New York State. Topics include: environment, communities, recreation.
Adirondack Mountain Reserve permits: Your questions answered
网页2021年9月22日 · By Gwendolyn Craig. The state Department of Environmental Conservation and the Adirondack Mountain Reserve (AMR) have provided more information on a reservation system set to start on May 1. The permit website went live at hikeamr.org and hikers can now make an online profile to sign up for a time slot. The reservation is free.
Essex Chain Lakes - Adirondack Explorer
网页2013年11月20日 · The Adirondack Explorer thanks its advertising partners. Become one of them. Thanks to Carr and the Nature Conservancy, the Essex Chain is now part of the forever-wild Forest Preserve and open to the public for the first time in more than a century. The conservancy purchased the 17,320-acre Essex Chain Tract.
New ADK map updates High Peaks Wilderness - Adirondack Explorer
网页2019年4月28日 · The ADK map focuses on the High Peaks. Since ADK’s last edition, the High Peaks Wilderness has grown to 274,000 acres, absorbing the Dix Mountain Wilderness, Boreas Ponds, and other adjacent lands. The new map reflects those additions. One criticism is that it does not show the boundaries of the wilderness area, so it’s hard …
Historic Adirondack Great Camps that you can visit
网页2023年8月16日 · White Pine Camp, Paul Smiths. Built in 1908 by prominent banker Archibald S. White on 35 acres overlooking Lake Osgood, White Pine Camp is known for a few unique factors. It was President Calvin Coolidge’s home for 11 weeks in the summer of 1926, and it features a blend of unique architectural elements described as “pre-modern,” …
网页ges, a Survey of Climate change and Adirondack Lake Ecosystems (SCALE) is urgently needed.The survey will address pressing scientific and management-oriented research needs to understand and guide managem. nt of Adirondack lakes, and serve a national model for freshwater research and management. Results from the lake survey will serve …
The environment of the Adirondack Park - Adirondack Explorer
网页Adirondack Environment. Water quality. Climate. Wildlife. Clean energy. Invasive species. Within the millions of acres of protected land, scientists are studying our changing environment. We, too, have been following these changes: The emergence of invasive species that threaten the health of our trees and waters.
An app for the Adirondack High Peaks - Adirondack Explorer
网页2011年12月29日 · Developed by Keith Kubarek, an enthusiastic Adirondack hiker, the app uses the phone’s GPS system to help people identify peaks in the viewshed of any of the forty-six High Peaks. The Adirondack Explorer thanks its advertising partners. Become one of them. 46er app for the iPhone.
Lesser known hikes in the Adirondacks - Adirondack Explorer
网页2020年5月19日 · The Adirondack Explorer thanks its advertising partners. Become one of them. Located in the Shaker Mountain Wild Forest, this 2.2-mile round- trip hike leads to two lakes: Steward and Indian (not the large one in the central Adirondacks). The trailhead is found on the east side of Green Lake Road, north of Green Lake in the Town of Caroga.
A fallen giant tree - Adirondack Explorer
网页2022年1月10日 · The Adirondack Explorer thanks its advertising partners. Become one of them. Philip Paige discovered this fallen white pine, known as Tree 103, on a recent visit to Elder’s Grove. Photo courtesy of Philip Paige. Determining the exact age would prove troublesome, he said, as its center is rotten, complicating any attempt to read its rings.