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This is the first in a two-part series about the Survey of Climate Change and Adirondack Lake Ecosystems (SCALE), which is a vitally important, multi-year study of air and water quality across the Adirondack Park.
Read about the most important conservation news from March, including a new climate institute for students, farm grants, the state budget, and more!
The Adirondack Council's Clean Water Advocate Blake Neumann discusses the importance of coordination in regards to protecting water quality - and by extension - the quality of life for people in the watershed.
Snow fleas, or springtails, can be a common sight on late winter days as they hop around the surface of the snow. But these little critters play an important ecological role, and are the subject of cutting edge scientific research.
In our latest Behind the Loon blog, meet Executive and Operations Assistant Karyssa Pryce!
Read more about the departure of Willie Janeway from the Adirondack Council, the road salt taskforce report, redevelopment of former prisons, roads on state lands, and the history of Black pioneers in the Adirondacks with the February 5 Things You Need To Know blog
In this second installment, the Adirondack Council's Jess Kelley highlights some common but cool birds that can be seen in almost any backyard in the Adirondacks
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In the final installment of our guest author series on forests, Robert T. Leverett discusses the differences between young and old forests in terms of the amount of carbon that can be sequestered, which is vitally important to understand in the fight against climate change.
Mycorrhizal fungi play a vital role in forests of all shapes and sizes, and while they may not be seen, the importance of their ecological role cannot be overstated. In the second installment of guest blogs about forestry, Claudia Bashian-Victoroff details studies in the Cleveland area following the importance of fungi in urban forestry.
Read more about the Diversity Initiative's new director, a protected tract of land in the western Adirondacks, and the new Environmental Conservation chair in the state senate in our latest 5 Things You Need To Know blog
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