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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

The New York State Hemlock Initiative, which plays a leading role in combatting Hemlock Wooly Adelgid in the Lake George watershed, has been guaranteed another two years of state funding, the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has ... Read More

After five hundred hours and twelve days on Lake George, surveying more than 16 miles of shoreline, state and local experts on invasive forest pests have concluded that an infestation of Hemlock Wooly Adelgid detected in August is a limited one and ... 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

Hemlock Woolly Adelgid, or HWA, as the invasive aphid-like insect is called, has been found in a stand of eastern hemlocks on Forest Preserve lands on the eastern shore of Lake George, the state’s Department of Environmental Conservation ... Read More

Health care professionals consider pooled testing a promising strategy for accelerating the  screening of local populations for COVID-19. “Pooled testing – screening several patients at once rather than individually – has the ... 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