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Corenne Black, Department of Conservation ranger, hikes 1,000 peaks

1 month ago | timesunion.com | Tim Rowland |Adirondack Explorer

In early April, Corenne Black paused to admire a drop-dead gorgeous view on a mountain in the Pharoah Lake Wilderness that few have ever heard of and fewer will ever see. It never gets old, even though she recently summited her 1,000th peak, a portfolio climbed in the Adirondacks and around the world. This little knob was No. 1,005. Was it special? They all are.
North Country coalition speaks out on potential Medicaid cuts

1 month ago | timesunion.com | Tim Rowland |Adirondack Explorer

ALBANY — Nearly one in three people in New York’s North Country are direct beneficiaries of Medicaid, but even that doesn’t cover the extent to which communities depend on the 59-year-old government health program. Should Medicaid be scaled back, clinics and nursing homes that depend on government reimbursements for the care they provide to financially disadvantaged people would suffer, possibly to the point of extinction, said Dr. John Rugge, founder of the Hudson Headquarters Health Network.
Adirondack Rail Trail sees nearly 100,000 bike trips in first 6 months

1 month ago | timesunion.com | Tim Rowland |Adirondack Explorer

In its first six months of existence the Adirondack Rail Trail counted nearly 92,000 users, a number that impressed but did not necessarily surprise trail advocates. “It gives some quantifiable numbers to what our eyes have been seeing,” said Brian Greene, vice president of the Adirondack Rail Trail Association. “We’re seeing that the rail trail is incredibly popular, that people really enjoy it, and it’s being used by people from all over — tourists and local people, too.
How Warren County is using technology to identify housing opportunities

2 months ago | timesunion.com | Tim Rowland |Adirondack Explorer

Using cutting-edge mapping and urban-development software, Warren County planners are hoping to show some of the county’s 20 hamlets how they might add affordable housing. Hamlets, which make up just 3.4% of privately held Adirondack Park land in Warren County, have been designated by Adirondack Park Agency land-use regulations as areas of generally unrestricted growth.
Adirondack beekeepers report surge in hive loss

Mar 9, 2025 | timesunion.com | Holly Riddle |Adirondack Explorer

Over the last few months, beekeepers in the Adirondacks are seeing an unprecedented number of bee deaths. Cindy Elsenbeck, education coordinator with the Southern Adirondack Beekeepers Association — the largest beekeeping club in New York, serving about 400 members spread across nine counties, as well as neighboring states — lost the entirety of her operation in December. Article continues below this ad“We are at what is colony collapse disorder again,” she said.
Nearly half of Adirondack Park Agency staff allege management abuse

Feb 23, 2025 | timesunion.com | Gwendolyn Craig |Adirondack Explorer

The Adirondack Park Agency’s executive director and her management staff have cultivated a “culture of fear” including “bullying, hurtful conflicts, and general abusive behavior,” according to a letter endorsed by 20 of 47 APA non-executive-team employees, and sent to board members by their union. The environment, they wrote, is leading to resignations, a loss of institutional knowledge and undermining the agency’s effectiveness.
DEC plans ‘reclamation’ of Echo Pond, killing fish so others may thrive

Feb 20, 2025 | timesunion.com | Zachary Matson |Adirondack Explorer

The fish beneath the ice covering Echo Pond near Fish Creek Pond Campground may have one last summer before everything changes. State fisheries managers plan to reclaim the 16-acre pond in the Franklin County town of Santa Clara in October, using the fish-killing chemical rotenone to kill the lake’s inhabitants — dominated by brown bullhead — in order to make way for a revival of stocked brook trout.
Could soured U.S.-Canada relations impact Adirondack tourism?

Feb 17, 2025 | timesunion.com | Tim Rowland |Adirondack Explorer

Ed Palen, owner of Adirondack Rock and River Lodge in Keene, received a very pleasant note last week with some less-than pleasant news: A Canadian hiking group with a long history of visiting the Adirondacks each summer would not be coming this year due to the agitated state of the current U.S. politics.
Bear family death: What really happened in Old Forge

Feb 10, 2025 | timesunion.com | Gwendolyn Craig |Adirondack Explorer

On an August day last year, two black bear cubs scrambled up a tree behind Old Forge Hardware in the town of Webb as a state environmental conservation officer shot their mother dead. One cub climbed back down the tree and the officer killed it, too. He grazed the second cub, but it fled back up into the boughs. The officer waited an hour and a half before he could safely take the final shots. “I watched the whole thing,” said Webb Supervisor Bonnie Baker.
Northern lights put on show over Adirondacks, with more to come

Jan 19, 2025 | timesunion.com | Mike Lynch |Adirondack Explorer

At 2:30 a.m. on Thursday, Oct. 11, whitish pillars of light rose into the sky over the barn at Donnelly’s Corners in Harrietstown. Rising from northern hardwood forests in Lake Clear, they glowed above the mountains. In his Jeep, parked at the Upper St. Regis Lake boat launch, amateur photographer John Faltus slept beside his tripod and camera. Article continues below this adAn exhausted Faltus had spent most of the night hoping to capture the aurora borealis.