The Adirondack Research Consortium (ARC) was founded with a single intent: to bring together those who do research and those who make decisions about the Park. The motive was a recognition that researchers and policy makers often traveled in different circles and would benefit from greater contact w...
When the Adirondack Research Consortium and the Adirondack Journal of Environmental Studies were launched in 1994 I was in graduate school, interested in research on the Adirondack economy and ecology, and desperate for a forum to pose questions, exchange ideas, and ultimately be a part of the poli...
Review of Acid Rain in the Adirondacks: An Environmental History by Jerry Jenkins, Karen Roy, Charles Driscoll, and Christopher Buerkett (Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 2007).
The Adirondack Park, the bull’s eye of North America’s acid rain problem, is situated downwind in the densest...
Introduction
Between 1930 and 1940 the United States grappled with the most devastating economic crisis this country ever experienced. Today in 2008, nearly 80 years after the 1929 stock market collapse that triggered the Great Depression, leading economists are beginning to predict a similar thr...
Dr. Ross Whaley is former president of the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry. He was chair of the Adirondack Park Agency from 2003 to 2007, and is presently Senior Advisor to the Adirondack Landowners Association. Dr. Whaley is co-author with William Porter a...
Comprising over 6 million acres, with 2.5 million acres of public land, the Adirondack Park is the largest protected wilderness east of the Mississippi River. Documenting and maintaining biodiversity within the park is one of the major goals of those tasked with managing public park lands (Ad...
The well-being of the Northern Forest of New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine depends on the economic vitality of its communities as well as its natural resource wealth, social interactions, health, and knowledge. Yet, classical measures of progress, such as the gross domestic product (GDP), ...
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