Our Environment, Animal Tips and the Great Outdoors
Our Environment
The Trail Less Traveled
It’s a brilliant fall morning. You wake up, look out the window at the maples ablaze in yellow and decide to go for a hike. You throw a water bottle and a granola bar in a day pack, lace up your trail runners, and dash to the nearest trailhead, only […]
The True Use of Art: Local Environmentalist Donates Easement to Protect the Beauty of Agriculture
George Inness, one of the world’s most prominent American landscape painters and one who was influenced by the masters of the Hudson River School, once intimated that in order to utilize art in its truest form, the artist must first learn to cultivate his or her own spiritual nature. For […]
Pandemic may Lift Veil on Global Water Crisis
The 2016 New York Drought was considered by many to be the worst drought to affect Western New York and parts of the Finger Lakes Region that exists on record. By the middle of July of that year, the percent of the State by area that was in […]
Scenic Hudson: Harnessing the Inspirational Power of the River
Ned Sullivan, president of Scenic Hudson, and his staff educate about and advocate for the Hudson River and the surrounding valley. He described the organization’s mission and accomplishments at a recent presentation organized by Noble Horizons.
A recent hike in Connecticut’s northwest corner took him to a height where he could see the […]


