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- NYS counties have high COVID rates
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- A bushwhack up Knob Lock Mountain
- When it comes to wild forest, how many roads are too many?
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Latest News Headlines
- Spongy moths: Attack of the caterpillars, the sequel
- EPA suspends some air-quality monitoring in Adirondacks
- NYS counties have high COVID rates
- Benita Law-Diao tapped to be APA's first Black board member
- Library to host Glens Falls in-person premiere of Hughes documentary
- Schenectady Moose No Longer On the Loose
- A bushwhack up Knob Lock Mountain
- When it comes to wild forest, how many roads are too many?
- North Country families struggle to find formula
- Does New York really need to hold two separate primary dates? Voting advocates say no | NCPR News
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A newsy issue
It will offer readers thorough explainers surrounding the recent court ruling against “community connector” snowmobile trails; the struggle by small Adirondack communities to fund proper water treatment; Essex County’s remarkable job of being a statewide leader in preventing COVID in the face of a serious tourism rush; a program to fight one non-native species with another; the pressures leading the Whitney estate’s owner to subdivide and sell that coveted Adirondack woodland; even a fascinating look at how and why (and at what cost) Adirondack communities ship all of the park’s garbage elsewhere.
And that’s just our news reporting. We’ll also have our usual assortment of summertime hiking, backpacking and paddling options, plus some cool history and a roundup of new Adirondack books for your summer reading list.
I hope you have some time off coming after this issue arrives around July 1. You’re going to need some of it to read all of these stories, and some to follow where they lead you. Enjoy!
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Shown here: Two species of silver fly, predators of the invasive hemlock woolly adelgid, are stored in vials before getting released on the eastern shores of Lake George. Photo by Gwendolyn Craig
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Brandon Loomis
Brandon Loomis is a former Adirondack Explorer editor.
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