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Pick a Park

Most sides agree: the future of the Adirondacks looks uncertain. How do you envision this special place in 25 years? Vote for the strategy that takes the park in the right direction

by Dave Mason and Jim Herman

Two years ago it dawned on us that we had a way to start a new conversation about the future of the Adirondack Park, a conversation that would include as many voices as possible and look at the whole park: its forests, waters, economy, communities and governance. read more

Vote for your park of the future here through September 1.


The Knotweed Factor

The citizen battle against a notorious invasive

by Jill U. Adams

"You get a little bit of shade," said Ryan Burkam, who was practically invisible in a clump of Japanese knotweed. He had wriggled in with a large squirt gun and was methodically injecting a prescription-strength pesticide into the stems. read more

 

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2009 Annual Guide to the Great Outdoors   The Hit List Must-do Adirondack classics
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August 2007   Bugged The buzz on the North Country's winged biters and stingers
April 2013   Our Towns: Whallonsburg
April 2003   From the Archives: The Big Burn A century ago, a half-million acres went up in smoke
June 2013   The Knotweed Factor The citizen battle against a notorious invasive
April 2013   Chase Axinn Long Lake's edgiest guy
June 2013   Pick a Park Most sides agree: the future of the Adirondacks looks uncertain. How do you envision this special place in 25 years? Vote for the strategy that takes the park in the right direction
April 2013   Water Proof Scientists join fishermen, boaters and shore-dwellers to document profound changes on Lake Champlain. Are shrinking ice and rising water the new norm for the North Country?
August 2003   Cover Boys The Renderer brothers become part of the fabric of Upper Jay
April 1989   Georgia O’Keeffe: The Lake George Years It was over the course of sixteen summers here that one of 20th-century America's most characteristic painters began to develop her artistic and personal style
February 2013   The Awful Grace An excerpt from Johnsburg and Newcomb paramedic and Bringing Out the Dead author Joe Connelly’s forthcoming novel
2010 Annual Guide to the Great Outdoors   Tandem Acts Through the Adirondacks on bicycles built for two
April 2013   At the Junction Vignettes of a Tupper Lake family
October 2006   Stieglitz in the Adirondacks The celebrated photographer found his focus at Lake George
2003 Collectors Issue   Rachael Ray The Adirondack roots of one of TV's hottest chefs
April 1998   One Hundred Years of Paper Work How International Paper—the biggest in the business—got its start right here in the Adirondacks
Collectors Issue 1999   Diners, Drugstores and Dives The fine art of hanging out
April 2012   Newtie Show Solving an amphibian mating mystery
April 2009   Bucket Brigade A fifth-generation maple man sticks to tradition
December 2012   On the Web Adirondack snowshoeing tips, trips and traditions
April 2007   Toad Hill Maple Farm The Galusha family’s sweet life in Athol
April 2002   From the Archive: A Tread Ahead The gripping story of a Big Moose invention that made the rounds
December 2005   The Land of Oz The Adirondack roots of all-American photographer Ozzie Sweet
April 2013   Farm Aid The therapy animals of Butternut Ridge bring solace and smiles
April 2013   Local Conviction Why is a jailed felon still celebrated on Lake Placid's Hall of Fame?
February 2013   Hairy Tale A celebration of Adirondack beards, from classic to creative
October 2002   Ale to the Chief Tapping into the North Country's first-round draft picks
February 2011   Places in the Heart Adirondack love affairs