All the recent news is so overwhelming, it’s almost all you can talk about. Luckily the Paul Smiths’ Woodsmen have provided some distraction.

Seems they were down at the Capitol doing some ax stuff and got Assemblyman Tedisco involved in some ax throwing. He says he hit the Bullseye. Given the Senate’s recent take [...]

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One of the disconnects we enjoy in New York is the perception of NYC versus the rest of the state. We have misconceptions about them and likewise. I sometimes pick-up various city-type publications, like the New Yorker, and reading it makes me wonder if indeed this is the same planet that I live on. [...]

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Local environmental groups are pointing to another study which looks at rising temperature trends.
Not surprisingly, three “industries” are being identified as under threat:

Downhill Skiing
Snowmobiling
Paper and Timber

“There was an analysis of the length of the downhill ski season,” explained Leslie Karasin, program manager for the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Adirondack Program. “What was modeled was skiable days.”
The [...]

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If you listen to some “experts”, the burnt lumberjack might not have happened if the Adirondack Club and Resort “lawn care and maintenance jobs” were available. You mean those kids could have been mowing a lawn (4am, March) instead of torching the lumberjack?

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I’m not a huge fan of “literature”, but I do appreciate some good spoken word…here’s an excerpt:
Wood
I fall asleep in a weathered Adirondack
to awake and there find a leaf
has fallen into my lap.
Yes, on this spinning clod of earth,
once again, decay has found me.
Oh, not that I’ve been
running from decadence mind you.
Not that I’m running [...]

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