Current News

The main threat to the Adirondack Forest Preserve, the late conservationist David L. Newhouse once wrote,  comes not from any overt pressure to overturn Article XIV, the state constitution’s “Forever Wild” clause,  but, ... Read More

The amount of chlorides deposited by highway crews in the Lake George watershed has begun to shrink at least in part because of the growing use of a salty, liquid solution known as brine. The contamination of groundwater, tributaries and ultimately ... Read More

The Empire State is getting America’s longest multi-use trail, giving Lake George residents direct access to 750 miles of repurposed towpaths, vestigial railroad beds and rural highways. Governor Andrew Cuomo announced plans for the trail in ... Read More

Before moving us to the Adirondacks in the fall of 1956 to become a country editor, my father, Rob Hall, had what must have been a rewarding though far from lucrative career as a left wing journalist. His 1955 reporting from the Sumner, Mississippi ... Read More

Editorial In January, 2018, six months after New York State’s Department of Environmental Conservation reported that harmful algal blooms had been found in 81 lakes and ponds across the state, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced a $65 million ... Read More

The recent discovery of the first confirmed Harmful Algal Bloom (HAB) on Lake George was both alarm bell and sobering reminder that even The Queen of American Lakes is not immune to this devastating problem that has befallen hundreds of other lakes ... Read More

The Harmful Algal Blooms (HAB) discovered in Lake George in early November – the first confirmed outbreak here ever and the first reported sighting in decades –contained no detectable levels of toxins, scientists from the Jefferson ... Read More

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