From now until the New Year we’re counting 2020, looking back month by month at the most popular stories that ran in the Almanack.

Since December is still fresh, we’ll go with the top three from the month (ranked by number of comments made).

1. https://www.adirondackalmanack.com/2020/12/flags-towns-and-symbolism-in-the-adk.html
2. https://www.adirondackalmanack.com/2020/12/things-fall-apart-at-apa.html
3. https://www.adirondackalmanack.com/2020/12/why-i-hunt-and-why-i-trap-photo-essay-contest.html

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From now until the New Year we’re counting 2020, looking back month by month at the most popular stories that ran in the Almanack.

Here are the top five posts from November (ranked by number of comments made).

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From now until the New Year we’re counting 2020, looking back month by month at the most popular stories that ran in the Almanack. In October, land-use issues dominated the headlines, such as high peaks use and discussions around the feasibility of hiker permits in the High Peaks Wilderness.

Here are the top five posts from October (ranked by number of comments made), with three of the five stories related to high peaks use.

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From now until the New Year we’re counting 2020, looking back month by month at the most popular stories that ran in the Almanack. In September, we were able to step back a bit from coronavirus news and look at some “big picture” issues. Notably, land-use issues dominated the headlines, such as high peaks use and discussions around the feasibility of hiker permits in the High Peaks Wilderness.

Here are the top five posts from September (ranked by number of comments made):

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From now until the New Year we’re counting 2020, looking back month by month at the most popular stories that ran in the Almanack. In August, we were able to step back a bit from coronavirus news and look at some “big picture” issues. Notably, land-use issues dominated the headlines, such as high peaks use and discussions around the future of the Whitney Park estate.

Here are the top five posts from August (ranked by number of comments made):

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From now until the New Year we’re counting 2020, looking back month by month at the most popular stories that ran in the Almanack. In July, we were able to step back a bit from coronavirus news and look at some “big picture” issues.

Here are the top five posts from July (ranked by number of comments made):

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From now until the New Year we’re counting 2020, looking back month by month at the most popular stories that ran in the Almanack.

While coronavirus was still important in June, readers also turned their attention to other topics. (Since the pandemic began, we’ve posted 171 stories to date tagged “coronavirus.”)

Here are the top five posts from June (ranked by number of comments made) and two of the five are related to the pandemic. Notably, outdoor recreation also factored into some of the top headlines:

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From now until the New Year we’re counting 2020, looking back month by month at the most popular stories that ran in the Almanack.

Coronavirus dominated the headlines (and pretty much all our attention) in May. In fact, since the pandemic began, we’ve posted 171 stories to date tagged “coronavirus.” Here are the top five posts from May (ranked by number of comments made) and three of the five are related to the pandemic:

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From now until the New Year we’re counting 2020, looking back month by month at the most popular stories that ran in the Almanack.

Coronavirus dominated the headlines (and pretty much all our attention) in April. In fact, since the pandemic began, we’ve posted 171 stories to date tagged “coronavirus.” Here are the top five posts from April (ranked by number of comments made) and four of the five are related to the pandemic:

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From now until the New Year we’re counting 2020, looking back month by month at the most popular stories that ran in the Almanack.

Here are the top five from March (ranked by number of comments made):

1. HIGH PEAKS SHUTTLE: A moot point for the rest of 2020. https://www.adirondackalmanack.com/2020/03/high-peaks-shuttles-visitor-needs-and-resource-protection.html
2. FISHER RESEARCH: Some recent findings on the fisher population. https://www.adirondackalmanack.com/2020/03/some-declines-ongoing-adirondack-fisher-research.html
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From now until the New Year we’re counting 2020, looking back month by month at the most popular stories that ran in the Almanack.

Here are the top five from February:

1. UNLIMITED ACCESS? Peter Bauer argues that rather than curb High Peaks use, the state is enabling an increase in hikers. https://www.adirondackalmanack.com/2020/02/viewpoint-state-facilitating-unlimited-access-to-high-peaks.html

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Starting today, we’ll count down the year, looking back month by month at the most popular stories that ran in the Almanack. 

We’ll start with the top five from January:

1. SAVE THE RAILS: Guest essay about preserving our rail infrastructure. https://www.adirondackalmanack.com/2020/01/viewpoint-tearing-out-railroads-is-not-progress.html
2. MAKE SOME TRAILS: On the other side of “rails vs. trails” is Peter Bauer, in a commentary about the Hudson River line from North Creek to Saratoga. https://www.adirondackalmanack.com/2020/01/viewpoint-convert-hudson-river-rails-to-multi-use-trai.html
3. HISTORIC RESCUE: Forest Ranger Scott van Laer looks back on a memorable incident on Algonquin. https://www.adirondackalmanack.com/2020/01/on-algonquin-in-winter-bad-luck-can-be-fatal.html
4. DIVERSITY GOALS: Area museums receive grant funds to advance their work in meeting the needs of all visitors. https://www.adirondackalmanack.com/2020/01/adkx-wild-center-working-on-diversity.html
5. HIGH PEAKS CROWDS: Adirondack Council Executive Director Willie Janeway shared an update about patterns of use in the High Peaks Wilderness. https://www.adirondackalmanack.com/2020/01/early-results-on-overuse-visitors-still-surging.html

As of mid-December, we’ve published 1,354 stories, commentaries, news releases and other posts. That’s pretty impressive, especially when you also consider the 425 stories that were posted to our sister site Adirondack Explorer (.org) in 2020, in addition to 40 photo galleries and 25 videos to the Explorer’s YouTube channel.

Almanack top 10

Here are the Adirondack Almanack’s 10 most-read stories from 2020 (taken from Google Analytics):

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