Adirondacks

For the first time in history, charitable giving surpassed 600 billion dollars. But only a small fraction of that money ends up in rural America, places like upstate New York.

This summer, officials with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation responded to encounters with rabid beavers.

Lyme Timber Company owns more than a quarter-of-a-million acres of land in the Adirondacks, including more than 16,000 acres in the southern St. Lawrence County towns of Colton and Piercefield. It's on that tract of land that Lyme Timber wants to log about 680 acres.

The Adirondack Common Ground Alliance recently announced it will be ending its operations.

A popular trail in the Adirondacks has been closed for more than a year after heavy rain triggered a massive landslide. Volunteers have been working this summer to clean up and rebuild the trail through Avalanche Pass.

A Jay Woman identified as Patricia Lawrence was ruled as a homicide this afternoon.

Adirondack reporter Emily Russell went for a short hike up Stewart Mountain in Chestertown and sent back an audio postcard.

Environmental advocates say progress was made in areas like funding for the Environmental Protection Fund, they are disappointed with lack of action on road salt controls and rollbacks to the state’s 2019 climate law.

Protect the Adirondacks will conduct a hiker survey this summer.

Several environmental groups have submitted a formal request to the Adirondack Park Agency to measure and protect remoteness in the Adirondacks.