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Ausable River

Lorraine Duvall Turns To Her Adirondack Home In Her Latest Book

September 24, 2023 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

styles brook book lorraine duvallFrom its wilderness source to its meeting with the Ausable River, Styles Brook is scarcely five miles long, yet within its scenic, rugged watershed, award-winning author Lorraine Duvall has discovered a lifetime of stories that characterize the Adirondack condition. [Read more…] about Lorraine Duvall Turns To Her Adirondack Home In Her Latest Book

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Arts, Books, Nature Tagged With: Ausable River, Bloated Toe Publishing, Essex County, Keene, Keene Valley, Split Rock Wildway

Police Update Case Of Murdered Man Found in Ausable Chasm

September 12, 2023 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

New York State PoliceOn March 20, 2023, around 2:12 am, New York State Police responded to the AuSable Chasm Bridge on State Route 9 in the town of Chesterfield, Essex County, NY, for a suspicious death. When Troopers arrived on the scene, they located Kenneth C. Darrah, age 37 of Keeseville, NY, deceased on the riverbank on the north bank of the AuSable River. [Read more…] about Police Update Case Of Murdered Man Found in Ausable Chasm

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY Tagged With: Ausable Chasm, Ausable River, Chesterfield, Clinton County, Crime and Justice, Essex County, Keeseville, Plattsburgh, State Police

The Geology of Clinton County and History

June 18, 2023 by Guest Contributor 1 Comment

Map of Clinton CountyThe geology of Clinton County has shaped the county’s history in complex ways. There are five major geologic rock types in the county, each mined for its beauty and strength. You can see them in the buildings. [Read more…] about The Geology of Clinton County and History

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, History, Nature Tagged With: Adirondacks, Alice T. Miner Museum, Architecture, Ausable Chasm, Ausable Forks, Ausable River, Bluff Point Light House, Champlain Valley, Chateaugay, Chateaugay Lake, Chazy, Chazy Lake, Churubusco, clinton correctional facility, Clinton County, Clinton County Community College, Dannemora, Delaware & Hudson Railroad, Fossils, Geology, Historic Preservation, I-87, Iron Industry, Keeseville, Lake Champlain, Lyon Mountain, Mining, peru, Plattsburgh, Potsdam, Samuel de Champlain History Center, Town of Ausable, Transportation History

137 Acres Adjacent to Adirondack High Peaks Wilderness Conserved

June 11, 2023 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

view of the High Peaks Wilderness taken from above the 137-acre parcel in St. HubertsThe Adirondack Land Trust on May 11, 2023 purchased 137 acres in St. Huberts to maintain public recreational access and conserve natural forests, including 1,844 feet of floodplain on the East Branch of the Ausable River. The land trust will hold this parcel for transfer to New York State for addition to the constitutionally protected Forest Preserve, along with 25 adjoining acres. [Read more…] about 137 Acres Adjacent to Adirondack High Peaks Wilderness Conserved

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Nature, Recreation Tagged With: Adirondack Land Trust, Adirondacks, Ausable River, Essex County, Forest Preserve, High Peaks, hiking, Keene, Keene Valley, Wildlife

Ausable River East Branch Rehabilitation Update

June 4, 2023 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

excavators placing stone and moving material in the Ausable River courtesy AsRAThis summer, the Ausable River Association (AsRA) will undertake the second phase of construction in its Ausable River East Branch Restoration Program with Project Area 2 in Upper Jay, in the Adirondack Park in Essex County. This comprehensive program, developed in 2019 with funding from the Governor’s Office for Storm Recovery (now the Office of Resilient Homes and Communities), identifies 13 sites in the Town of Jay in need of restoration. Completing these river restoration projects will improve flood resilience, protect communities and infrastructure, and restore habitat for the food web that supports our native brook trout. [Read more…] about Ausable River East Branch Rehabilitation Update

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Events, Nature, Recreation Tagged With: Ausable River, Ausable River Association, Environmental History, fishing, floods, Jay, Route 9N, Transportation, Trout

Forest Rangers Recover Body From Ausable Chasm, Search for Homicide Evidence

March 29, 2023 by Editorial Staff 1 Comment

Ausable Chasm evidence search 2On Monday, March 20 at about 9:45 am New York State Police (NYSP) requested Forest Ranger assistance in an evidence search connected to a homicide investigation at Ausable Chasm in the town of Chesterfield, Essex County. When Rangers arrived, they were asked to recover the body of a homicide victim thrown more than 100 feet down the chasm. [Read more…] about Forest Rangers Recover Body From Ausable Chasm, Search for Homicide Evidence

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY Tagged With: Ausable Chasm, Ausable River, Chesterfield, Crime and Justice, DEC, Essex County, Forest Ranger Reports, Forest Rangers, Search and Rescue, State Police

Search Continues For Man Missing After Fall Into Ausable River

October 5, 2022 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

DEC Forest Ranger Swift Water Team searches the Ausable River for a missing man who fell into the river in September 2022New York State DEC Forest Rangers and other search and rescue organizations are continuing to search for a man who fell into the Adirondack Park’s Ausable River near the Flume Trail System in Wilmington, Essex County, NY. [Read more…] about Search Continues For Man Missing After Fall Into Ausable River

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Recreation Tagged With: Adirondacks, Ausable River, Essex County, Forest Ranger Reports, Forest Rangers, Search and Rescue, Wilmington

Another Adirondack Resort Subdivision Proposed Without Conservation Design

October 2, 2022 by David Gibson 2 Comments

Large Subdivision and Resort Development proposed, Oct 2021I just skimmed through Eric Stackman’s recent replies to the Adirondack Park Agency (available on the APA website). Stackman, a Miami, Florida developer, wants to construct a 120-lot resort subdivision in Jay, Essex County, above the East Branch of the Ausable River, apparently within sightlines near Whiteface Mountain, Askaard Farm and many other viewing locations. [Read more…] about Another Adirondack Resort Subdivision Proposed Without Conservation Design

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Nature Tagged With: Adirondack Wild, Adirondacks, APA, Ausable River, Conservation Development, development, Environmental History, Essex County, Jay, nature, Whiteface, Wildlife

A New Guide To Waterfalls of the Ausable River

September 11, 2022 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

roaring brook falls courtesy asraThe Ausable River Association (AsRA) has announced the launch of their Waterfalls of the Ausable guide, featuring ten of AsRA’s favorite waterfalls throughout the Ausable River watershed. [Read more…] about A New Guide To Waterfalls of the Ausable River

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Nature, Recreation Tagged With: Ausable River, Ausable River Association, hiking, nature, waterfalls

Scenic Vista Protected in Adirondack Town of Keene

July 22, 2022 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Marcy Field, Baxter Mt, KeeneView of Hyson donation from Marcy FieldA family and the Adirondack Land Trust have conserved 107 acres and a third of a mile of shoreline on the East Branch of the Ausable River upstream of the Keene town beach. [Read more…] about Scenic Vista Protected in Adirondack Town of Keene

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Nature Tagged With: Adirondack Land Trust, Ausable River, conservation, nature, Wildlife

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