Samantha Muratori: “Has Conservation of the Adirondacks Come to a Halt?”

For the better part of a decade, there has been a movement to re-invigorate and re-imagine Tupper Lake, NY. There is no denying that the Tupper Lake community needs economic revitalization, for without it the town will continue to experience economic decline. One major economic development project that could revitalize Tupper Lake’s economy is the […]

Laura Johnston: “Land Tenure and Conservation in Adirondack State Park”

The United States is a nexus of watersheds. Five levels of complicated, webbed outlines divide and subdivide land on nested scales, the smallest of which is the Hydrological Unit Code (HUC) – the watershed. From 50 states we arrive at 2,264 watersheds, which presents an incongruous approach to mapping from our dominant one. This presents a […]