On a warm evening earlier this summer, Brandon DeVito and I stood on the edge of Lower Saranac Lake. Devito, an avid paddler and vice chair of the Northern Forest Canoe Trail, was my guide for our ...

2024 was a busy year for the Northern Forest Canoe Trail. The nonprofit group maintains and promotes the 740-mile water trail from Old Forge through the Adirondacks and into Vermont, New Hampshire, ...

New research shows that the global models used to project how Earth's climate will change in the future underestimate the impact of forest fires and drying climate on forests' ability to capture and ...

NORWALK - The first phase of an ambitious plan to clean up Manresa Island and turn its former power plant into an imaginative public park will open in spring 2027, project officials said. The 28-acre ...

MINNEAPOLIS — A month ago, it was smoke. Now it’s fire. The hellish summer that has scorched more than 4 million acres west of the Rocky Mountains and sent smoke plumes drifting across the continent ...

The nonprofit organization is strengthening communities and fostering economic and environmental resilience across the Northern Forest region, which spans northern Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and ...

Peter Macfarlane has paddled into a headwind riding four-foot waves on Lake Champlain. He’s seen ospreys, eagles and kingfishers while canoeing on the Missisquoi River. And he’s eaten pizza in Swanton ...

NORWALK — The city of Norwalk is one step closer to opening Manresa Wilds, a mixture of restored habitats, including meadows, marshland, groves and forest, as well as walking trails and other ...