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State of Lake Champlain Fisheries Meetings
The Lake Champlain Fish and Wildlife Management Cooperative, a working group of fisheries professionals from the Vermont Fish and Wildlife…
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Poughkeepsie’s Captain James Ackley: A Boatman’s Life
The Nautical Gazette says: One of the oldest pilots actively engaged in steamboating today is Captain James P. Ackley, who…
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Shifting Baselines: Environmental Change at Hamlin Beach State Park
At the western edge of Hamlin Beach State Park on the shore of Lake Ontario, beyond a row of trees,…
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Noble Sissle’s Lucky Lake: An Interracial Catskills Lake Colony
To many historians, World War I Harlem Hell Fighters Band lead vocalist, composer, lyricist, bandleader, singer and playwright Noble Sissle…
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Stonewall National Monument’s Digital Erasure
An Executive Order issued by President Trump has caused the National Park Service to remove mention of transgender and queer…
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Cayuga Museum Seeking Objects, Stories for Korean War Exhibit
The Cayuga Museum of History and Art in Auburn, NY is working on a new exhibit commemorating the Korean War,…
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Ravens Foraging in Winter – New York Almanack
It’s a familiar sight in winter: An inky-black raven soaring over a landscape white with snow. Though similar in appearance…
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The Day FDR’s Hyde Park Mansion Caught Fire
After President Franklin Delano Roosevelt lost the use of his legs, his son Eliott wrote that his father had a…
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Another Adirondack Rail Trail Snowmobile Accident
New York State Forest Rangers responded to another Adirondack Rail Trail snowmobile accident this past week, and three wilderness rescues.…
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Adirondack Park Agency Staff: ‘We Have A Hostile and Toxic Work Environment’
On February 12, 2025, the regional field representative for the Public Employees Federation (PEF), the union representing approximately 50,000 State…
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