TUPPER LAKE - Word has been received that longtime Tupper Lake outdoorswoman Nellie Staves died Wednesday. She was 92.

Staves was inducted into the New York Outdoorsman Hall of Fame in 2008 and was the first and only woman to serve as a president of the Tupper Lake Rod and Gun Club and the Franklin County Federation of Fish and Game Clubs. She was also a past vice president of the Adirondack Conservation Council.

Staves was one of 12 siblings while growing up on Walden Mountain in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont. She moved to the Adirondacks in 1949 to work as a logging camp cook on Whitney Park in Long Lake.

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More on Nellie Staves' life coming soon in the Enterprise.