Indian Lake: The Troubled Acquisition of Township 15
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: New York State makes a landmark Forest Preserve acquisition near Indian Lake. The seller is Finch, Pruyn & Co. The deal leads to controversy.This is not...
View Article130,659 Acres of Adirondack Forest Sold
Rayonier Forest Resources has sold 130,659 acres of forest located almost entirely in the Adirondack Park for $57.5 million to a client of the timberland investment management organization Molpus...
View ArticlePeg Leg Line: The First Fulton Chain Railroad
Early Brown’s Tract settlers Albert Jones and his son Eri had gotten into trouble with the law in 1877 for mistreating Eri’s wife, leaving her in a critical condition to be cared for by a neighbor....
View ArticleThe Big Push Before Mud Season
Out of all the months in the year March is the busiest time for the timber harvesting industry – what many call “the big push.” This is our last chance to produce as much product as possible before the...
View ArticleFarrand Benedict’s Trans-Adirondack Water Route
On Route 28 between Indian Lake and Blue Mountain Lake there is a sign about a half mile south of the junction with Route 28N in Blue Mountain Lake that marks the divide between the St. Lawrence River...
View ArticleArbor Day Originated with Northern New Yorker
Today is Arbor Day, a 140-year-old tradition wherein Americans plant trees to improve home and country, and it has local roots, so to speak. Begun in 1872 by Adams, NY (Jefferson County) native J....
View ArticleLogging History: Lumber Scaling Rules and Tools
William Fox’s short “History of the Lumber Industry of New York State” in the Sixth Annual Report of the Forest, Fish and Game Commission (1901) includes a photograph (shown here) of a crew scaling and...
View ArticleLoons and Logs Celebration Set for Newcomb
Hundreds of rubber loons, believed to be the first and only ones in the world, will return this month for the third annual Loons and Logs event at the Adirondack Interpretive Center (AIC).The event...
View ArticleForest Management Plans: A Win-Win
Got Woods? If so, there may be a way for you to maximize your woodlot and maybe even your wallet. Funds are available through the Environmental Quality Incentive Program (EQIP) to help landowners with...
View ArticleDEC Opens Backcountry Roads To Motor Vehicles
The NYS Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has opened new roads and facilities on nearly 25,000 acres of forest preserve and conservation easement lands in the Adirondacks.New roads and...
View ArticleOld Trees: Methuselah In Your Backyard
There’s something in us that can’t help but be impressed by an old tree. Perhaps we’re simply in awe of something that has outlived generations of humans and will outlive us.We acknowledge this when we...
View ArticleThe Origins Of The Town of Inlet
On November 27, 1901, the Hamilton County Board of Supervisors unanimously passed an act that created a new town from northern Morehouse, with the South Branch of the Moose River dividing the two...
View ArticleMississippi Firm Now Largest Adirondack Landowner
Molpus Woodlands Group has purchased the 112,238-acre holdings of The Forestland Group. A price was not disclosed. The purchase makes Molpus, of Philadelphia, Mississippi, the Adirondack Park’s...
View ArticleNew Wood-Pellet Projects: Paul Smith’s College
Paul Smith’s College is installing a state-of-the-art wood-pellet boiler system, which will heat its three academic buildings.This project is one of the first uses in New York State of a...
View ArticleWatching the Forest Preserve Reclaim an Old Road
It’s slow work for the forest to take back a road, but once the forest gets started, its work is relentless. The State of New York has owned the Burn Road on the north side of Little Tupper Lake (part...
View ArticleAt Levi Lumber, Logging Runs In The Family
Approaching the “landing” at the Levi Lumber job site in the Adirondack League Club is akin to landing on another planet. The drive down narrow, snow-covered roads makes one think they’ve gotten close...
View ArticleWood Pellet Boiler Project Expanded To Region
Financial and technical assistance that has helped homeowners and businesses in New Hampshire, Maine and Vermont switch to high-efficiency wood pellet heating is now available to Adirondack homeowners...
View ArticleWoodlot Management: Losing Money By High-Grading
What do you call a dairy farmer who spends decades improving the genetics of a herd, then abruptly sells all the best animals to start a new herd from scraggly, unproven stock? Crazy, perhaps, or...
View ArticleOld Forest Roads In The Adirondack Backcountry
Bushwhacking is hard work. Trudging through dense forest, struggling with hobblebush thickets, climbing over downed trees, and dodging wetlands is no simple walk in the park; unless it’s the Adirondack...
View ArticleATV, Snowmobile, Truck Trails Planned For Kushaqua Tract
The New York State Department of Conservation is seeking comments on their Recreational Management Plan (RMP) for the Kushaqua Tract Conservation Easement Lands in the northern Adirondack Park. The...
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