A Wilderness of Roads
In the year 2000 DEC opened Little Tupper and Rock Pond to overnight camping for the first time. This was when I began my thorough explorations.
Roads of Recovery
Recent news that the remaining portion of Whitney Park, one of the last surviving private parks erected in the 1890s, is on the market has both intrigued me and disappointed me. On the one hand, I have been dreaming of exploring its woods and waters for twenty-two years; on the other, the current owner has expressed hostility to the idea of selling the land to the Forest Preserve.
Wilderness Is Essential
In this pandemic, I’m reminded how necessary large tracts of land are and how essential Wilderness and wild places are to our mental and physical health.
Wilderness Visitor Management: There’s an App for That!
Good visitor use management requires better visitor data than we have today.
AWA Takes an Active Role in High Peaks Visitor Management
AWA is one of only three environmental advocacy organizations named to the High Peaks Strategic Planning Advisory Group (HPAG), which was formed in November.
Cathead Mountain: Where Public Safety and Wilderness Meet
Public safety and wilderness meet at Cathead Mountain.
Adirondack Explorer – It’s Debatable: No To Permits
The term “overuse” implies that we have too many people visiting the High Peaks. This term, while convenient and perhaps apt, greatly oversimplifies the problem and solution.
A Brief History of the Pepperbox Wilderness
Like any other portion of the Forest Preserve, there is a human story hidden in the second-growth forest, and in the odd place names that lie scattered across the map.
AWA Proposes Adjustments to Wilderness Snowmobile Plan
The proposed trail, called the Seventh Lake Mountain – Sargent Ponds Trail, is just one part of a longer “community connector” trail linking the Moose River Plains network with the hamlet of Long Lake in northern Hamilton County, eliminating the need to cross Raquette Lake.
AWA Conducts its First Board Meeting
We were a small group of just seven people, and we gathered with no publicity or fanfare; but it was a momentous event, because it represented the first regular meeting of the new board of directors for our organization.
On Russell M.L. Carson and Peaks and People of the Adirondacks
Excerpts from the essay, ““On Russell M.L. Carson and Peaks and People of the Adirondacks,” published in Wander-Thrush: Lyric Essays of the Adirondacks (Ra Press, 2018) and written by David Crews.
Wilderness Advocates Express Concern over Black River Plan in Adirondacks
Adirondack Wilderness Advocates (AWA) is stating that the plan for new trails and parking facilities likely does not conform with State Land Master Plan guidance, and that more information must be provided to the public before the Adirondack Park Agency (APA) can approve the proposals.
Reaction to the Adirondack Park Agency’s Plan for Boreas Ponds
News that the Adirondack Park Agency plans to subvert another upcoming wilderness designation at Boreas Ponds with both motorized and mechanized access corridors is not just discouraging, it is frightening.
A Snowy Boreas Tea Party
Let’s talk Boreas Ponds. If you’re to learn from history, I implore you: act, don’t wait.