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3 weeks 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.
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1 month ago | 
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.
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2 months ago | 
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.
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2 months ago | 
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.
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2 months ago | 
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.
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2 months ago | 
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.
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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.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
adirondackexplorer.org | Adirondack Explorer
From NYS Department of Environmental Conservation’s weekly forest ranger report:Village of Speculator, Hamilton CountyOn Jan. 11 at 12:43 p.m. Forest Rangers Nally and Thompson responded to a call for a snowmobile accident in the Speculator Tree Farm Conservation Easement. Two riders from New Jersey with limited snowmobile experience had crashed in the woods. One rider suffered leg and shoulder injuries; the other sustained cuts and bruises.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
timesunion.com | Gwendolyn Craig |Adirondack Explorer
The largest solar facility ever proposed in the Adirondack Park, a 40-megawatt array near Great Sacandaga Lake in the town of Mayfield, is closer to reality, despite outstanding concerns from local officials.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
timesunion.com | Tim Rowland |Adirondack Explorer
Elizabeth “Betsy” Folwell, a Blue Mountain Lake essayist, author and conservationist who could grasp ephemeral threads of nature and humanity and weave them into vivid portraiture of the Adirondack condition, has died at the age of 71, according to family friends, who said the cause was cancer. To people who knew her by her writings in Adirondack Life, her crisp and perceptive prose gave readers a better understanding of the mountains and its people.
