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Extinction: Passenger Pigeons Once Darkened The Skies

October 8, 2020 by Mike Prescott Leave a Comment

Adirondack-Passenger-Pigeon-533x800In 1854, Samuel H. Hammond, a prominent attorney, newspaper writer and editor, State Senator and sportsman, wrote in Hills, Lakes, and Forest Streams: or A Tramp in the Chateaugay Woods (1854) about a sporting trip with his guide to Tupper Lake in the Adirondacks.

Hammond described a world that was considerably different than today, thanks to logging, blasting, damming, and flooding. He wrote in his diary: [Read more…] about Extinction: Passenger Pigeons Once Darkened The Skies

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, History, Nature Tagged With: Bird Migration, birds, endangered species, Mt. Morris, nature, Tupper Lake, Wildlife

State Seeks Input On Endangered Species Changes

October 8, 2020 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Shortnose Sturgeon courtesy U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric AdministrationThe New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) is accepting public comment on a revised regulatory proposal to strengthen protections for threatened and endangered wildlife in New York.

The proposal promotes sharing information between landowners and DEC staff during permit reviews for projects on lands where endangered or threatened species may be located, helping improve the pace of permit decisions and to better avoid negative impacts to vulnerable wildlife populations. [Read more…] about State Seeks Input On Endangered Species Changes

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Capital-Saratoga, Hudson Valley - Catskills, Mohawk Valley, Nature, New York City, Western NY Tagged With: DEC, endangered species, nature, Wildlife

Rattlesnake Surprises Warren Co Vacationers

August 6, 2020 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

ECO LaPoint with a timber rattlesnake in Warren CountyNYS  Environmental Conservation Officer George LaPoint reported that he responded to a residence in the town of Hague, Warren County, for a report of a trapped timber rattlesnake at residence where a family was vacationing on August 2nd. [Read more…] about Rattlesnake Surprises Warren Co Vacationers

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Nature Tagged With: ECOs, endangered species, Hague, Lake George, nature, snakes, Wildlife

When Eating Turtle Was All The Rage

June 14, 2020 by Jaap Harskamp 1 Comment

Turtle Soup headlineBefore the mid-eighteenth century, turtles were largely untried as edibles in North America. For considerable time, the turtle was assumed to be poisonous. An infernal creature, a “resident of hell,” it should not be cultivated for food.

But attitudes changed. By the mid-nineteenth century, civic banquets would inevitably offer turtle on the menu. [Read more…] about When Eating Turtle Was All The Rage

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Capital-Saratoga, Food, History, Hudson Valley - Catskills, Mohawk Valley, Nature, New York City, Western NY Tagged With: Culinary History, endangered species, nature, reptiles, turtles, Wildlife

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