Old Roads on Old Maps
Wherever that road is, I have no reason to believe we’re standing on it. By the same token, I have no reason to believe we’re not standing on it, either.
Forty-Six: On the Occasion of the 2021 Presidential Inauguration
The number “46” might have multiple meanings and influences in the Adirondacks.
AWA in 2021: Looking Back at Our Most Popular Posts
What follows is a listing of ten of our most popular posts over the last year, including new site features, Wild Thoughts, and of course the core issues we care about most. These are the pages that received the most views between January 1st to December 31st 2021.
UPDATE: Development Continues on AWA’s Visitor Use Management App
The concept was simple: Provide a digital alternative to the ubiquitous trailhead register books many visitors fill out (and all visitors should fill out) on their way in and out of the backcountry.
Wilderness Drop Zones: A Poor Management Practice
Adirondack Wilderness Advocates has become concerned about a recent trend in the way DEC fulfills this responsibility: the reliance on helicopters to deliver materials to remote work sites.
When the Earth Was Wilderness
It was about 10,000 years ago when we first began to make the transition from being inhabitants of a global natural wilderness to the first beings to ever try and tame it.
Protecting the Wilderness with Positive Reinforcement
The Coronavirus pandemic, which depressed visitation for the first part of the summer, has clearly caused a massive spike in recreation.
The Future Forest
Everyone who loves the outdoors would lose if New York was unable to secure a purchase agreement, now or in the near future.
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.