KEENE — Jessica Henshaw Grant has been selected to fill the Adirondack Land Trust’s first internship. She will work this summer to document places protected by the conservation organization that provide recreational benefits to Adirondack communities. Originally from Homer, Alaska, Grant ...

SYRACUSE — Tracking adult female fishers in the central Adirondacks and Tug Hill will help determine what is causing a perceived population decline. Over the past decade, the number of fishers harvested has declined in the central Adirondacks, and since the harvest is often proportional to ...

Over the past few weeks I’ve written the words “wilderness” and “wild nature” dozens of times. I often use them casually to refer to any place on a trail or mountain, in the woods, and so on. It occurred to me today, though, that wilderness is perhaps not a word that should be used so ...

There’s a simple beauty to hiking — you need only put one foot in front of the next. You don’t need to do intense calculations. You don’t need to do somersaults. You only need to keep walking. Even if you’re struggling at home, even if your life is in shambles, even if the world ...