DEC Offering a “Becoming an Outdoorswoman” Workshop, Jan 29-31, 2010

New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Commissioner Pete Grannis today announced the second annual winter “Becoming an Outdoorswoman” workshop will be held the weekend of Jan. 29-31, 2010, at the Rensselaerville Meeting Center, Albany County. This is 17th year that DEC has offered these types of workshops; more than 2,500 women have already [...]

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Feral Pigs Invading Allegany State Park

by Gary Borek via the FLT email list:
The DEC has confirmed that feral pigs (wild boar) are invading Allegany State Park. Park Manager Brad Whitcomb is concerned wild hogs could gain a foothold in the park and damage the local ecosystem the way they have in parts of the South.
“When they go to the wild [...]

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DEC, Friends of Five Rivers Break Ground for New Education Building

Donation Paves Way for “Guided School Program” Facility
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Commissioner Pete Grannis today announced that the agency is partnering with the non-profit group Friends of Five Rivers to construct a new education building at the Five Rivers Environmental Education Center in Delmar (Albany County).
Friends of Five Rivers, a citizens’ [...]

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Officials Tour the Chemung River in Plan to Improve Waterway

By Jennifer Kingsley, StarGazette.com, link to original post
They might have looked like a bus load of ordinary tourists, but the folks on this particular adventure were local officials who gathered information on the Chemung River’s access, sites, structure, topography and history throughout Steuben County.
The recent 3-hour, 10-mile tour was part of the Southeast Steuben River [...]

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DEC may ban chainsawing in wilderness areas

By MIKE LYNCH, Adirondack Daily Enterprise, link to original post
Proposed environmental conservation regulations governing wilderness, primitive and canoe areas in the state Forest Preserve would add the operation of chainsaws and other motorized equipment to the list of things banned in those lands, except under special permits.
The additional language would be added to Section 196 [...]

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Newly proposed guidelines for locating, constructing and maintaining snowmobile trails on state Forest Preserve lands

by MIKE LYNCH, Enterprise Outdoors, link to original post
Newly proposed guidelines for locating, constructing and maintaining snowmobile trails on state Forest Preserve lands are now open for public comment.
Released to the public Friday (Sept 4, 2009) afternoon by the state Adirondack Park Agency, the proposed guidelines build off of the 2006 Snowmobile Plan for the [...]

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Bronck Museum part of Hudson River Valley Ramble – Sept

The Daily Mail, link to original post
The Bronck Museum (Coxsackie,NY) is offering two special events as part of the 10th Annual Hudson River Valley Ramble in September. Nearly 300 events will take place from Saratoga County and the Capital Region to New York City on the weekends of Sept. 5-7, Sept. 12-13 (Heritage Weekend), Sept. [...]

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Otisco Lake also faces milfoil problem

by John Stith/The Post-Standard, link to original post
Otisco Lake
Maximum depth: 60 feet
surface area: 1,878 acres
length: 5.4 miles
maximum width: 1 mile
More information: www.otiscolakepreservation.org
Donations: accepted online through PayPal on the Web site
Otisco Lake, one of the smallest of the Finger Lakes, faces the same problems as its bigger siblings to the west: an influx of invasive weeds.
The [...]

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6 More Miles of Northville-Placid Trail Are Now Off-Road

Trailwork was recently completed to move six miles of the Northville-Placid Trail off a road and into a wild vestige of the original Adirondack forest. The work was done by the professional trail crew of the Adirondack Mountain Club, which created the 132-mile-long trail 85 years ago.
Most of the 132-mile route route is deep in [...]

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FLTC at the NYS Fair

If you visit the NYS Fair anytime from August 27 through Labor Day, please visit the Finger Lakes Trail display, located in the Adirondack Leanto, located behind the DEC Log Cabin. The display is open from 10 to 6 each day and is being staffed by volunteers, some of whom are “end to enders” on [...]

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