Life in the Adirondacks and North Country is finding the right balance.
A good example of this are the many Lake Champlain fishing tournaments.
This incredible piece of information was mentioned this morning in an article about the FLW Series Eastern Division tournament on Lake Champlain:
Overall, there were 687 bass weighing 1,839 pounds, 9 ounces caught by 146 pros Thursday. The catch included 127 five-bass limits.
Tags: clinton county·conservation·economic development·fish·lake champlain
via @robrodriguezjr
Tags: camp·franklin county·paddle
This plane is so cool, I need one.
Tags: conservation
“Across the lake from Hotel Champlain, Lake Champlain, N.Y.”
Circa 1904 – About this item
“Lake Champlain from back-lawn of Clinton Community College”
Circa 2009 – Pano
The rich diversity of natural life in the Adirondacks never ceases to fascinate me. Dr. Janet Mihuc at Paul Smiths College is leading an effort to inventory the Giant Silkmoths of the Adirondacks. She’s hoping that volunteer citizen-scientists will help by submitting sightings. Sightings will become part of the Adirondack All-Taxa Biodiversity Inventory (ATBI) database and will be used to construct occurrence maps for each silkmoth species. It’s thought that the numbers of these moths are on the decline and this data help establish a baseline for future studies.
Uh, these really are “Giant” moths:
Hyalophora cecropia (Robin Moth) (by Anita363)
Volunteer sightings are needed from all parts of Northern New York. Could be a really fun thing to do.
The survey runs through July 30, 2010. www.projectsilkmoth.org
Tags: paul smiths·wildlife
“Git up Thar”
The Adirondacks are the paradise of the stagecoach driver. A peculiar genius is this Adirondack driver, as a rule. He does not at all suggest the immortal older Weller. If ever there was a distinctly American type, it is he ; but he belongs to his coach as much as Sandy in the old song belonged to his mill. He is essentially a product of the region. There is nothing conventional either in his speech or his appearance. The only concession he is known to make to the generally accepted social decalogue is in the matter of smoking. 
An Adirondack stage-driver smokes continually, but he never appears on the roof of his coach with a pipe in his mouth ; that would be beneath his dignity. He smokes cigars, and he smokes them from the time he gets up in the morning until he goes to bed at night. In all other respects he has contempt for the dictates of fashion. His topboots and big straw hat are picturesque, but they do not convey any impression that their owner is oppressed with ideas of order ; in fact, they look hot and uncomfortable. Moreover, he drives in his shirt-sleeves, — a proceeding which would have horrified the older generation of English mail-coachmen… (Link)
Stages through the ages
BY COACH AND BUCKBOARD TO BLUE MOUNTAIN LAKE.
TWO HIGHWAYMEN ROB AN ADIRONDACK COACH
“The Great Stagecoach Robbery”
Stage Coach in Hamilton county, 1910 (jpg)
Stage Coach in Hamilton county, 1910 up close (jpg)
Tags: crime·heritage·transportation
Lake Placid NY, circa 1911. “Stevens House and Mirror Lake, Whiteface Mountain seen in distance nearest house”
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