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      A Cat Walk through the Adirondacks – Part Two

      July 8, 2016 By John Davis Leave a Comment

      Tongue Range

      [Read this first: "A Cat Walk through the Adirondacks – Part One."] My wandering the West Champlain Hills and Wester Foothills (as I like to call the low mountains west of the West Champlain Hills but east of the High Peaks) produced plenty of prey evidence, and many other … [Read more...] about A Cat Walk through the Adirondacks – Part Two

      Filed Under: Nature Tagged With: Adirondack Park, Algonquin to Adirondack connection, Chris Spatz, Cougar, Frontenac Axis, Hammond Pond Wild Forest, Heart of a Lion, Lake George, Lake George Wild Forest, Mountain Lion, Pharoah Lake Wilderness, Split Rock Wildway, Tongue Range, Walker, West Champlain Hills, Wildlife, Wildlife corridor, Will Stolzenburg

      A Cat Walk through the Adirondacks – Part One

      July 1, 2016 By John Davis Leave a Comment

      Heart of a Lion: A Lone Cat's Walk Across America by William Stolzenburg

      Plotting their Heart of a Lion tour, the author of this outstanding book, Will Stolzenburg, and one of its main human characters, Chris Spatz, finally landed on a name for the famous Mountain Lion — Walker.  As Will and Chris headed to southern New York and Connecticut for talks … [Read more...] about A Cat Walk through the Adirondacks – Part One

      Filed Under: Nature Tagged With: Adirondack Park, Algonquin to Adirondack connection, Chris Spatz, Cougar, Frontenac Axis, Hammond Pond Wild Forest, Heart of a Lion, Lake George, Lake George Wild Forest, Mountain Lion, Pharoah Lake Wilderness, Split Rock Wildway, Tongue Range, Walker, West Champlain Hills, Wildlife, Wildlife corridor, Will Stolzenburg

      West Champlain Hills: Our Bountiful Home

      April 29, 2016 By John Davis Leave a Comment

      Westport Woods Scene

      Most of us who live in New York’s Adirondack Park are here because it is a beautiful, relatively wild and natural place.  Winters are hard to endure (and getting harder, from some vantage points, as they become more erratic and less consistently cold) and jobs hard to find (and … [Read more...] about West Champlain Hills: Our Bountiful Home

      Filed Under: Nature Tagged With: Adirondack Coast, Banana Belt of the Adirondacks, botany, Champlain Valley, dry-rich oak-hickory-hophornbeam assemblage, eastern Adirondacks, eastern Essex County, Eastern Hemlock, Hemlock Wooly Adelgid, Jerry Jenkins, John Davis, Lake Champlain, metanorthosite, Split Rock Wildway, West Champlain Hills, Wildlife, Wildlife corridor

      Weasels of Our Home: Terrestrial Mustelids

      March 29, 2016 By John Davis Leave a Comment

      Fisher by Larry Master (www.masterimages.org)

      If you missed the first post in this series, find it here and read an introduction to our local Weasel family members and the aquatic mustelids who live here: "Weasels of Our Home: Aquatic Mustelids."  Now I will introduce the terrestrial mustelids of our region. Terrestrial … [Read more...] about Weasels of Our Home: Terrestrial Mustelids

      Filed Under: Nature Tagged With: American Marten, Ermine, fisher, Jerry Jenkins, Long-tailed Weasels, weasels, West Champlain Hills, Wildlife

      Split Rock Wildway: Protecting Biological Riches

      September 26, 2014 By John Davis Leave a Comment

      Opsrey and chicks seen at the Palisades (Credit: Elizabeth Lee)

      [This is the third in a four-part series describing the Split Rock Wildway and the importance of an extensive wildlife corridor in the Northeast. The first two parts are Split Rock Wildway: A Critical Wildlife Corridor and Where is the Split Rock Wildway? The final installment … [Read more...] about Split Rock Wildway: Protecting Biological Riches

      Filed Under: Nature Tagged With: Adirondack Land Trust, Adirondack Park, Champlain Area Trails (CATS), Eddy Foundation, Jerry Jenkins, John Davis, New York Department of Environmental Conservation, Northeast Wilderness Trust, Open Space Institute, Split Rock, Split Rock Wild Forest, Split Rock Wildway, West Champlain Hills, Wildlife corridor

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