The Beaver in Late Summer
As we shift away from the lazy days of summer, the beaver also moves from days of leisure to days of work.
Tom Kalinowski explains why beavers become more active during the Adirondack late summer — and how you might spot what they’re up to during a late summer canoe or kayak. [...]
For anyone longing for the warmth of summer, nature photographer Zachary Wakeman can help. In the following slide show, he shares his images from a mid-August trip into the Ferris Lake Wild Forest area of the south western Adirondacks.
Zachary spent two days camping along the Powley-Piseco Road.
Many of the weekly Adirondack Farmer’s Markets continue into October. But with cool weather coming, you might wonder what fruits and vegetables (other than apples, squash and pumpkin of course!) grow during the late summer and fall seasons.
Adirondack Harvest created this chart – “What’s in Season in the Adirondacks” – to help consumers plan for [...]
In order to better understand the impact of new home construction on Adirondack wildlife, the Wildlife Conservation Society’s (WCS) been keeping track of small mammals and herps (reptile and amphibians) at a new construction site near the Upper Saranac Lake.
While white-throated sparrows are heard all over the Adirondacks in the summer, they’re often a bit hard to spot. Tom and Jackie Kalinowski explore where you’ll hear, and possibly see, the white-throated sparrow. Here’s Nature in the Adirondacks:
How to handle human trash within special landscapes varies across North America. Here in the Adirondacks, all waste and recycling is now hauled outside of the park. But in the Canadian Maritimes, the people and businesses of Prince Edward Island – faced with a growing number of landfills marring their island landscape – decided to [...]
Even though an estimated 4,000 to 5,000 black bears live in the Adirondacks, (first photo courtesy NYDEC) attention has been focused on a small group who mostly live in the eastern High Peaks region of the Adirondacks. In 2004, New York’s Region 5 Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC)
Earlier this month, we featured an audio slideshow about a highly energy efficient house being built in the northern Adirondacks: New Levels of Efficiency. Now, we have an update. Here’s a journal from Cathy Kraft about the latest work on the project. All photos copyright Rich and Cathy Kraft.
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Greetings to all! The first floor is [...]