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The Lake George Land Conservancy protects the land that protects the lake.  We make sure that the important wetlands, forests, stream corridors and other places in our watershed are protected forever.  Since we started this work ... Read More

The year that Merino sheep were first introduced to the Lake Champlain and Lake George areas, George Perkins Marsh, the pioneering conservationist, looked out from his home in Vermont across Lake Champlain to the Adirondacks. Vermonters, he knew, had ... Read More

Scarcely interrupted  by man’s exertions since the 19th century, Dome Island’s natural evolution  has functioned as a wilderness laboratory since the early 1960s, shortly after it was donated to the Nature Conservancy by ... Read More

Between the downing of Franklin County’s last indigenous moose and the creation of the Adirondack Park Agency, fewer than one hundred years elapsed.  Within that time, electricity came to the Adirondacks, as did bootleggers, men and women ... Read More

A team of four technicians will survey Lake George’s forests every day for the next four weeks, searching for signs of Hemlock Wooly Adelgid (HWA).  The Lake George Land Conservancy will pay Saranac Lake-based Adirondack Research $25,000 to ... Read More

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-foot 1776 gunboat Philadelphia, ... Read More

Thanks in large part to the Jefferson Project, whose mixture of science, technology and environmental advocacy has made Lake George “the world’s smartest lake,” Lake George is also known as “a hope spot,” a model for other fresh water ... Read More

In the spring of 1879, a summer resident of Lake George named Nathaniel Holmes Bishop, who had walked across South America when he was seventeen and whose account of a voyage in a paper canoe from Troy, New York to the Gulf of Mexico was judged by ... Read More

Emerald Ash Borer, a small but destructive Asian beetle that infests and kills native Ash trees, has been found in southeastern Warren County. The discovery, which was reported by Warren County and New York State Department of Environmental ... Read More

In 2018 (the last full year for which statistics are available),  521 Warren County residents entered facilities to be treated for addiction to heroin and pain medications. Within that same year, Warren County documented 10 deaths, 40 trips ... Read More