A new documentary tells the story of the explorer and surveyor long-considered the father of the Adirondack Park. Verplanck Colvin mapped the Adirondack wilderness and became one of the first to call for the park’s forests and watersheds to be protected. Colvin: Hero to the North Woods will be broadcast on Tuesday, August 8th at 8 pm on Mountain Lake PBS. Watch our interview with filmmaker Bill Killon and writer and producer Tom Henry.
Watch our extended interview on Killon’s & Henry’s next film about a young soldier from Port Henry, NY who was killed in Vietnam:
A new exhibit with rare artifacts celebrates the 125th anniversary of the Adirondack Park and tells the struggles involved with the forest preserve’s creation.
“Birth of the Blue Line” opened earlier this month at the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation headquarters in Albany. It runs through September.
Noted land surveyor Verplanck Colvin raised the alarm about threats to Adirondack resources as early as 1868.
The exhibit includes replicas of historic maps, antique survey equipment, field notebooks and photographs from Colvin’s survey missions.
More information on the display, including printed brochures, is available at http://www.dec.ny.gov/lands/110552.html.
For more information on the Adirondack Park and Forest Preserve, including a full-color Park Map and Guide, go to:
http://www.dec.ny.gov/lands/5263.html.
DEC worked with the New York State Library to professionally scan the maps and make replicas for public display. Digital scans of the maps can be viewed at the library’s online collections at: http://nysl.cloudapp.net/awweb/guest.jsp?smd=2&cl=library1_lib&nid=16/17/18/22167.