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Outdoors

CATS awarded $100,000 grant to expand community engagement

WESTPORT — Champlain Area Trails recently announced that it has received a $100,000 grant from the New York State’s Environmental Protection Fund to create a new position in the organization, focused on community outreach and engagement initiatives. The new staff member will create and ...

Keene Arts exhibit benefits Champlain Area Trails

KEENE — Champlain Area Trails will benefit from an art exhibit at Keene Arts throughout July. Four Adirondack artists — Kevin Raines, Rob Powell, Dan Keegan and Steve Van Nort — have teamed up with the Keene Arts owners Mal and Zizi MacDougall to create a benefit exhibition to ...

ADK to host BioBlitz Saturday at Cascade Welcome Center

LAKE PLACID — The Adirondack Mountain Club will be hosting a free BioBlitz event on Saturday, June 24 at Cascade Welcome Center. Surrounded by 200 acres of forest and wetland, Cascade Welcome Center is home to a variety of ecosystems that have yet to be explored by naturalists. ADK is ...

It’s a boom year for blackflies in the Lake Placid region

LAKE PLACID — It’s not your imagination — the blackflies are really biting this year. Lake Placid and surrounding areas are reporting an “unusually abundant” blackfly population in 2023, despite the widespread application of a pesticide that’s meant to kill blackfly larvae before ...

It’s a boom year for blackflies

LAKE PLACID — It's not your imagination — the blackflies are really biting this year. Lake Placid and surrounding areas are reporting an "unusually abundant" blackfly population in 2023, despite the widespread application of a pesticide that's meant to kill blackfly larvae before they ...