Adirondack Explorer

On the Wild Side

nce I climbed St. Regis Mountain near Paul Smiths on a fall day with some guiding clients, and we found ourselves standing inside a cloud—not of water droplets but of dragonflies. The insects were green darners, which migrate long distances south in autumn. Or at least a fraction of them do. A subset of green darners, for reasons unclear, seems

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Age: 51 Birthplace: Horseheads Residence: Newcomb Occupation: Senior Research Associate and Associate Director of the Adirondack Ecological Center (AEC), a field research station of the State University of New York College of Environmental Science an

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