On November 9th and 10th, 2009, close to two hundred youth, faculty, and administrators from high schools and colleges throughout the North Country met at The Wild Center for the first Adirondack Youth Climate Summit. They explored climate change, its effect on the Adirondacks, and planned ways in which they could reduce energy consumption and [...]
Despite its tiny brain, the Black-capped Chickadee can remember thousands of places it has stored seeds and other small pieces of food. According to Cornell’s Lab of Ornithology, the bird’s brain adapts for this type of new information every year. The Chickadee swaps out certain brain neurons with old information for new [...]
Though you’re reminded of a mouse, shrews are not rodents – nor even closely related to rodents. They live just under the forest floor in the Adirondacks – foraging for food almost constantly and needing to consume more than their body weight every day during the winter. Tom and Jackie Kalinowski take to [...]