There were people living in the Adirondacks even before the forests that we now classify as “wilderness” emerged from the soil. That is the story that Curt Stager and David Kanietakeron Fadden tell in “The First Adirondackers: 12,000 Years of ... Read More

Artifacts from the Revolutionary War-era schooner Royal Savage, once lost beneath Lake Champlain for more than a century, are in the process of being preserved by Fort Ticonderoga, the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum and the National Museum of the ... Read More

A species of silver fly, an instrument for controlling the invasive aphid-like insect hemlock wooly adelgid (HWA), has established itself in upstate New York, the Department of Environmental Conservation has announced. The Cornell University-based ... Read More