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Author: Mike Hansen
Long-term monitoring of Adirondack lakes reveals impacts of climate change
For decades, researchers have monitored 58 lakes in the Adirondack Park, yielding critical data on the region’s health and recovery of environmental threats like Acid Rain. While many lakes have recovered from past challenges due to regulatory changes, they now show new impacts due to climate change. The Adirondack Watershed Institute at Paul Smith’s College…
Adapting to Climate Change’s Impact on Adirondack Hiking Trails
All the heat, humidity, haze, and smoke from the wildfires in Canada & heavy rains and flooding across Vermont & the Adirondacks this summer has opened a lot of people’s eyes to the dramatic effects of climate change. Those who love and work to protect the wilderness have changed how they design & build trails…
Plein Air artists drawn to Keeseville for Community Art Festival
Dozens of painters gathered in Keeseville, New York, for a Plein Art Contest hosted by ADKAction as part of the village’s Community Art Festival. Artists are capturing the stunning landscapes and architecture of Keeseville, and their paintings, along with many others, will be displayed and available for sale at the Old Stone Mill along the…
Exploring the wild foods of the Adirondacks with historical forager [Extended Interview]
Melanie Sawyer is a historical forager. She lives off-the-grid in a remote area of Essex County, NY between Moriah and North Hudson. She shares with us the bounty of wild foods she finds growing in the Adirondacks, and how it helped land her on one of the most popular reality shows on television. Melanie appears…
Historical forager finds abundance in the Adirondacks
Melanie Sawyer shares with us the bounty of wild foods she finds growing in the Adirondacks, and how it helped land her on one of the most popular reality shows on television.
Poetry machine makes it’s way around the Adirondacks
The Adirondack Center for Writing has come up with a really cool way to share poetry here in the Adirondack Region. They’ve taken an old gumball vending machine and filled it with capsules that contain poetry from writers around the world. There’s no need to worry about finding a quarter, the poems are all free.…
Hub on the Hill is the first food hub to accept SNAP payments online
The closure of dozens of local grocery stores in recent years is increasing the number & size of food deserts across the Adirondacks and New York State where families, especially food stamp recipients, face challenges finding fresh, nutritious, locally grown food. Food hubs are trying to help, and Hub on the Hill, in Essex County,…
Adirondack Mountain Club Summit Steward
Krista White is a Naturalist with the Adirondack Mountain Club who works educating hikers and visitors to the High Peaks on the need to protect the Adirondacks Alpine habitat. Watch our story on the work Summit Stewards are doing to preserve and protect one of the world’s rarest plants in the Alpine Summit of the…
Crow Behavior
It’s a common sight during the winter months, crows by the hundreds, if not thousands, flock together and roost in treetops in towns and cities across Northern New York. What brings crows together in such large numbers at night? Producer Michael Hansen asks John Thaxton, an author, columnist for Adirondack Explorer, and the longtime Director…
AuSable River Cleanup
Volunteers pitch in to remove trash, old tires, and debris from the banks of the AuSable River. Our producer Michael Hansen tells us how the yearly project helps to restore and protect one of the major tributaries flowing from the High Peaks of the Adirondacks to Lake Champlain. Learn more about AuSable River Association: www.ausableriver.org
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