Weasels of Our Home Lands and Waters We are graced in the Adirondack Park with at least six members of the weasel family, Mustelidae. The family of mustelids, in taxonomic turn, fits within the order Carnivora, which is in the class Mammalia, which is in the phylum Chordata, … [Read more...] about Weasels of Our Home: Aquatic Mustelids
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Stinky Mink
Click the play button above to learn about our native Adirondack mink population (American mink Neovison vison) in another informative installment from Ed Kanze and mountainlake.org If you have the privilege of getting close to a mink, it'll stink. But don't let the smell scare … [Read more...] about Stinky Mink
Essex Farm: Welcome Spring
Check out this week’s Essex Farm news from Kristin Kimball's blog: "This week the snow pulled back to reveal the winter-ravaged world. Muck, ruts, bones. A dead frog suspended in the ice at the edge of the pond. Also, a pollywog, alive and swimming in the meltwater. Water … [Read more...] about Essex Farm: Welcome Spring
Roadkill: American Mink
The tragedy that most painfully defines America is roadkill. Nearly all of us participate almost every day in the wanton killing of other creatures — and too often our own kind, sometimes even our sons and daughters — so that we can race to work, buy things we don’t need, and … [Read more...] about Roadkill: American Mink
Join a wildlife tracking team
Want to know more about the wildlife in your woods? Learn in the field. Interpret tracks and signs. Collect scientific data. Help us connect habitat. Wildlife needs room to roam. To give wildlife the space it needs, wild habitats are being protected and linked … [Read more...] about Join a wildlife tracking team