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The Forces of Nature

February 27, 2022
Bill Ingersoll
Enjoyment, Photo Essay
Black River Wild Forest, Blue Ridge Wilderness, Ha-de-ron-dah Wilderness, High Peaks Wilderness, Hoffman Notch Wilderness, Round Lake Wilderness, Sentinel Range Wilderness, Siamese Ponds Wilderness, Silver Lake Wilderness, West Canada Lake Wilderness, Wilcox Lake Wild Forest, William C. Whitney Wilderness

No commentary. No words. Just images of places in the Adirondacks where the only forces at work are natural ones.

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The Road to Tongue Mountain

February 9, 2022
Ellen Apperson Brown
Expansion, Knowledge, Protection
History, John S Apperson, Lake George Wild Forest

Park concerns the struggle for power over the construction of highways, and a really fascinating example of one of these battles, which transpired between activists and powerful, well-moneyed interests, took place at Lake George in 1923.

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The Hunter of Frogs

February 5, 2022
Bill Ingersoll
Enjoyment
Siamese Ponds Wilderness

She was a pit bull, a tough dog by her own estimation and not one to pass up an adventure. The Hunter of Frogs, the Chewer of Sticks, the Champion of Tug-of-War, a dog with an 0-for-3 score to settle with the porcupines. But here she was being undone by half a mile of ice.

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AWA in 2021: Looking Back at Our Most Popular Posts

January 2, 2022
Adirondack Wilderness Advocates
News

With yet another year in the record books, we took a look at the past twelve months to review the posts that resonated the most with our followers.

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All the Places I Have Never Been

January 1, 2022
Bill Ingersoll
Enjoyment
Shaker Mountain Wild Forest, Silver Lake Wilderness

Writer/photographer Bill Ingersoll shares a memorable experience from a snowshoe hike on New Years Day 2009.

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Paul Schaefer’s Winter Ascent

December 15, 2021
Bill Ingersoll
Knowledge
Crane Mountain, History, Paul Schaefer, Wilcox Lake Wild Forest

Part 3 of 3 Automobiles enabled a new generation of suburbanites from the Mohawk and Hudson valley regions to begin visiting the mountains more frequently. Some of these people acquired rustic cabins built by the early homesteaders and converted them into camps. Paul Schaefer, a contractor from Schenectady, was one such person.

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The Era of Referendum and Recall

December 9, 2021
Ellen Apperson Brown
Knowledge, Protection
Follensby Pond, High Peaks Wilderness, History, John S Apperson, Lake George Wild Forest

It seems to me that a decision concerning the best management or ownership for Follensby Pond is one that will require plenty of study and deliberation, with the help of a goodly number of “citizen watchdogs.”

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Making the Call for Wilderness

December 2, 2021
Bill Ingersoll
Expansion
Follensby Pond

It’s a simple thing to do, taking no more than a minute of one’s time. We must let our new governor know that making Follensby Pond “forever wild” is our preferred outcome – that the tract has been locked up long enough.

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Examining Hiker Dispersal: What’s Next

December 1, 2021
Pete Nelson
Protection
Adaptive Management, Blue Ridge Wilderness, High Peaks Wilderness

ne of the issues AWA is working on is dispersal: the strategy of redirecting hikers from busier to lesser-used trailheads. We started with an informal survey sent to our supporters, to help us gain additional perspective on hikers’ views of dispersal. We learned quite a bit from…

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Leading the Way on Adaptive Management

November 26, 2021
Pete Nelson
Protection
Adaptive Management, High Peaks Wilderness, Paul Smiths VIC, Visitor Use Management
In partnership with our allies, including Adirondack Wild, the Adirondack Mountain Club, Paul Smiths Visitor Interpretive Center and Technical Advisor Chad Dawson, AWA is leading the way in promoting adaptive…
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The Paint Mine and the Tower

November 23, 2021
Bill Ingersoll
Knowledge
Crane Mountain, History, Wilcox Lake Wild Forest

Part 2 of 3 Locals regarded Crane and Huckleberry mountains as places to pick berries—specifically blackberries, raspberries, and huckleberries (blueberries)—as well as a source of paint pigment and other minerals. Outsiders, however, viewed the mountain in terms of its recreational potential.

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The Lady of Crane Mountain

November 17, 2021
Bill Ingersoll
Knowledge
Crane Mountain, History, Wilcox Lake Wild Forest

Part 1 of 3 The former Crane Mountain guide and log skidder also returned annually to the Adirondacks, where she continued to feel a connection to the rugged landscape and the people who sought a living there.

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