WHAT’S GOING ON IN THE FOREST? Got a chance to camp out for a few days around 3,500 feet. The area I was in is what some might call a “temperate rainforest.” This area of the Catskills receives over 60″ of rain each year. It’s a “boreal forest” where you’llContinue Reading
WHAT’S GOING ON IN THE FOREST? We talk a lot about bringing fire back to the forest. Zahra (CFA’s Education Forester) & I finally got to participate last week at the Albany Pine Bush. Prescribed burning up there is used to preserve the Karner blue butterfly and its habitat. Hopefully,Continue Reading
WHAT’S GOING ON IN THE FOREST? Went hiking up a trail in Delaware County overlooking the Tremperskill Valley last week. One of the few openings poking through the forested landscape was this cemetery. I soon realized it was the newly created cemetery made when the East Branch Delaware Valley wasContinue Reading