Current News

A planned year-round performing arts center for the southern Adirondacks has advanced a step or two further: the Seagle Festival in Schroon Lake has been awarded a $1.8 million grant from the New York State Council on the Arts’ Capital Projects ... Read More

The fisher, once all but extinct in the Adirondacks, has now firmly re-established itself here. According to John Davis, an Essex County writer and activist affiliated with the New Mexico-based Rewilding Institute, the fisher is “a rewilding ... Read More

The destruction of the Lake George Yacht Club’s building in Basin Bay in 1896 was as much a loss to Lake George’s architectural history as the demolition of the Gilded Age-era mansions along Millionaire’s Row. Today, only a few privately-owned ... Read More

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

The Lake George Land Conservancy (LGLC) has purchased 53 acres in the hills above Northwest Bay – an acquisition that will protect both view sheds and water sheds. The lands lie within the Town of Bolton and are divided by Federal Hill Road. Until ... Read More

Snapshot NY, a citizen science program created by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) and the Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit at Cornell University in 2025, will begin Year Two in July. The innovative ... Read More

When Seagle Festival presented Bizet’s “Carmen” for the first time in roughly thirty years last summer, its cast was supplemented by a chorus of ten local school children, members of the Seagle’s inaugural youth opera workshop. The workshop ... Read More

Decades of acid rain and the widespread use of road salt have left their signatures on the water quality of Lake George, though new research shows that the lake is slowly recovering from environmental stress. “But,” conclude the authors of a ... Read More