Why Does The Harvest Moon Look So Big In The Evening Sky?

Why Does The Harvest Moon Look So Big In The Evening Sky?

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Great Lakes Seaway Trail GeoTrail

Geocaching is a hot new healthy outdoor adventure on the Great Lakes Seaway Trail. Grab your GPS and search for the 75 hidden caches amidst our scenic, natural and cultural landscape.  Have fun and earn collectible geocoins; learn how at www.seawaytrail.com/geotrail.

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Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake Suffers Sharp Declines from Habitat Destruction & Human Persecution

Just days after the Lake Erie Water Snake was declared recovered and removed from the federal endangered species list, snake researcher Dr. Bruce Means and three conservation groups (the Center for Biological Diversity, Protect All Living Species and One More Generation) today asked the government to save another snake, the Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake, by adding [...]

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The Friends of Grimes Glen (frOGG) has new logo & web site

The Friends of Grimes Glen (froGG)was formed in 2009 by a group of volunteers enthusiastic about the preservation of Grimes Glen, a classic Finger Lakes gorge and a new Ontario County park.  Parks & Trails NY’s capacity building grant helped FroGG develop a logo, brochure, and web page — all of which has given the [...]

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Book Review: “The Nature of New York: An Environmental History of the Empire State”

Book Review: “The Nature of New York: An Environmental History of the Empire State”

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Video: Historic Adams Basin Inn on the Erie Canalway Trail

Video: Adams Basin Inn on the Erie Canalway Trail For a quiet and peaceful B&B Getaway, consider the historic Adams Basin Inn in Adams Basin, N.Y. An easy 13-mile ride out of Rochester, this B&B is located right on the Erie Canal. The inn has been a home to many travelers since the 1800′s! There [...]

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Once an Incline Railway, now a Real Hike to the Top of Mount Beacon

Once a Fast Track, Now a Real Hike to the Top of Mount Beacon

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A Bridge Connecting the Perinton Hike/Bikeway to the Erie Canalway Trail IS Coming

Back in the 1990′s, Rich & I lived along the Old Trolley Trail (aka the Perinton Hike/Bikeway) in Fairport. We used the trail year-round for hikes, bike trips and even snowshoeing in the winter. But, if we wanted to head into the village of Fairport we had to leave the trail at the canal end, [...]

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Byway Birding Bonanza

Bring binoculars on the free byway birding itinerary – www.seawaytrail.com/roadtrips <http://www.seawaytrail.com/roadtrips> – that reaches from the Pennsylvania Borderlands and Presque Isle to New York’s Braddock Bay and Derby Hill Bird Observatories, the Indian River Lakes and Lake St. Lawrence. The fall migration is a busy time on this important flyway.

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Video: Simple Backpacking Meals

Video: Simple Backpacking Meals My one disagreement with this video is that we found Stove-top Stuffing to be easy to fix and tasty while thru-hiking the AT, but it didn’t provide us enough energy to power up the mountains.

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