What’s the snowiest place in the Adirondack Park?
By Zachary Matson
What eight years of data from University at Albany's Mesonet weather stations reveal about Adirondack snowfall
Zachary Matson
Zachary Matson has been an environmental reporter for the Explorer since October 2021. He is focused on the many issues impacting water and the people, plants and wildlife that rely on it in the Adirondack Park. Zach worked at daily newspapers in Missouri, Arizona and New York for nearly a decade, most recently as the education reporter at the Daily Gazette in Schenectady. He lives in Saranac with his family.
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Judge rejects suit to mandate Adirondack lake carrying capacity studies
By Zachary Matson
Court sides with DEC, APA that Adirondack State Land Master Plan does not require state to study carrying capacity of Saranac chain of lakes
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Native lake trout success story in Lake Champlain: stocking to end this year
By Zachary Matson
As wild population thrives, New York, Vermont and feds celebrate milestone in decades-long restoration work
Two Adirondack lakes look to use milfoil-killing herbicide
By Zachary Matson
Eagle Lake, Mountain View Lake go to Adirondack Park Agency for approval to drop milfoil-killing herbicide as smaller lake associations call for state support
Hornbeck Boats branches out to the Land of 10,000 Lakes
By Zachary Matson
Hornbeck Boats, the maker of the iconic Adirondack pack boat, is expanding with a new retail store in Minneapolis opening this month
New DEC chief honors trans ranger in first Adirondack stop
By Zachary Matson
New DEC commissioner honors beloved ranger who died in climbing accident in first appearance in the Adirondacks
St. Armand to buy Paul Smith’s College land that holds town’s water supply
By Zachary Matson
Long history of divided ownership over Bloomingdale water supply could wrap for $300,000
St. Regis Mohawk Tribe leads effort to curb road salt pollution
By Zachary Matson
New technology includes outfitting snow removal trucks with cameras and sensors to track salt use and optimize operations
Salt success: How Lake Placid rallied to save Mirror Lake
By Zachary Matson
Community's efforts to reduce salt use, divert runoff has helped bring a key Adirondack lake back from the brink
State to offer $80 million for flood resiliency projects
By Zachary Matson
The latest grants from $4.2 billion green bond could target flood mitigation projects for Ausable, Boquet rivers.