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Photo by Cecil Stoughton. Courtesy LBJ Library.

Commentary: “In Wildness is the Preservation of the World”

On September 3, 1964, President Lyndon Baines Johnson signed the National Wilderness Act into law and with one stroke of his pen, protected more than 9 million acres of undeveloped federal lands. In a photograph taken that day, one can spot Stewart ... Read More
“The Battle of Lake Champlain” by Carlton T. Chapman, 1925. Courtesy of Fort Ticonderoga.

A Revolutionary War Roadside Attraction

In 2026, the US will celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. That year, the Smithsonian Institution’s Museum of American History will unveil a new display interpreting the 54 ft 1776 gunboat “Philadelphia,” built for ... Read More
Route 73, between Keene and Lake Placid. Mirror file photo.

NYS, LGA, Addressing Impacts of Road Salt on Water Supplies, Public Health

A staggering seven million tons of road salt have been deposited on Adirondack highways since 1980. If that practice is ever to be curbed, it will owe something to the Adirondack Road Salt Reduction Task Force, whose final report was released ... Read More