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You care about the Adirondacks, its woods, waters and people. That’s why you’re reading the Explorer (and its sister site the Adirondack Almanack), on top of everything else going on in the world.
Like the park, the Explorer is a special place. Last year, it hired me to come write about water — so abundant here we might just take it for granted.
As beautiful and seemingly protected as that water is, I’ve reported how that beauty and those protections only run so deep. There’s pollution we can’t see and problems we haven’t fixed, like the contamination caused by road salt or the sewage slowly fouling up Lake George.
These weekly emails are supposed to come “out of the notebook,” a journalism term for something in my notes that hasn’t made it into a story.
A handful of harmful algae blooms have struck the Adirondacks this summer, 
This past Tuesday, the Explorer hosted our first public event of the COVID era — a Zoom panel discussion with Dan Kelting, the head of the Adirondack Watershed Institute of Paul Smith’s College.
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While recent rains have helped some parts of the Adirondacks, other parts are stuck in a dry spell that began with the mild winter.
New national maps suggest flood risk is far higher than most people realize, in New York and across the country.
When people talk about the Hudson River and its problems, my mind immediately goes to the 
Over the past several months, as we’ve investigated road salt pollution in homeowners’ water, we’ve been keeping an eye out for lab tests that show salt getting into town and village water supplies.
Recent dam failures in Michigan are a reminder that humanity’s efforts to hold back rising water with aging infrastructure are not guaranteed to succeed.
(Calling all citizen scientists! The following is from Water Line, 
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