History, Natural History & the Arts
According to the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, outdoor recreation is a $34 billion industry in New York State, responsible for more than 250,000 jobs.
In the Lake George region, outdoor recreation buttresses the tourism economy, which, according to the most recent data available, generates $850 to $887 million a year in sales. In 2023, tourism supported between 6,000 and 8,500 local jobs. [Read more…] about The Experience Economy: Monetizing Warren County’s Natural Assets
The Adirondack Center for Loon Conservation (ACLC) successfully rescued three iced-in loons on Paradox Lake on December 24th and 26th, 2024.
Initial calls to the Adirondack Loon Center came in on December 23rd to report one iced-in loon on Paradox Lake in Essex County, and two iced-in loons on nearby Brant Lake, in Northern Warren County. [Read more…] about Loons Rescued at Paradox Lake in the Adirondacks
Three towns in Warren County – Lake George, Bolton and Horicon – are among those with hamlets where median home sale prices range from $600,000 to $900,000 – among the highest in Upstate New York.
But drive a few miles inland and the picture is a very different one. The safety net is fraying. [Read more…] about Fighting Food Insecurity in the Lake George Region
Freshwater cyanobacteria are found in all lakes and reservoirs, are naturally occurring, and are important to water ecosystems; however, excessive growth of some cyanobacteria can result in harmful cyanobacterial blooms (HCBs, also called cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms or HABs).
These blooms can cause unsightly scums that smell like rotting eggs or septic. Toxins from HCBs can negatively impact people, animals, and the environment. [Read more…] about EPA Researchers Develop Forecasting for Harmful Cyanobacterial Blooms
One hundred years ago anyone fishing Brant Lake in Warren County would undoubtedly know the name, Uncle Jud Smith.
If they were fortunate, he would have been their guide for a day out on the lake fishing for bass.
His knowledge of these fish was as firsthand as you can, as it was in the 1870s that he brought the first black bass to the lake. [Read more…] about Uncle Judd Smith, Brant Lake’s Old-Time Adirondack Guide
Adirondack Architectural Heritage (AARCH) has announced the recipients of our Adirondack Rural Revitalization Program (ARRP) grants. A total of $680,734 will fund 11 projects in eight of New York’s Adirondack/North Country counties. [Read more…] about Adirondack Architectural Heritage Rural Revitalization Grants Announced
On Friday, May 14th at 1:25 pm, NYS Department of Environmental Conservation Forest Rangers Morehouse and Savarie responded to a wildfire on Palisades Road, a road running alongside Brant Lake, in the town of Horicon, Warren County. [Read more…] about Adirondack Wildfire Spreads By Wind Before Being Extinguished
Night and day for three full weeks six well-dressed men would take shifts standing watch over Betsey Hays in her bed. They planned to stay with her two at a time in her one room cabin and make careful scientific notes. For Betsey, who spent most of her time tormented by uncontrollable bodily contortions and seizures, it was something she was used to.
Over the past two years, thousands of people had come to Chestertown in Northern Warren County to stand over her as she suffered. [Read more…] about “Strange things about Mrs. Simeon Hays,” The Woman That Lived Without Eating
Recently my son Adam and his daughter were canoeing on the Hudson River above the Feeder Dam in Glens Falls when they noticed a small tree growing atop an old stone pier about 30 feet from shore – and something more. Tangled in the roots, they found a large old rusted chain with links 4 inches wide by 6 inches long.
Sharing pictures with Richard “Dick” Nason, the unofficial Finch Pruyn Paper Company historian and an authority on river log drives, it appears likely the chain was left over from the heyday of log drives on the Hudson River. [Read more…] about An Old Hudson River Chain Recalls Logging History
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