Chad Dawson (Photo provided) NISKAYUNA After quitting the state Adirondack Park Agency board in frustration, wilderness advocate Chad Dawson has joined the board of Adirondack Wild: Friends of the Forest Preserve, one of the park’s environmental groups. Dawson, of Onondaga County, is a professor emeritus at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, teaching and researching there from 1989 to 2011, and before that for 15 years at Cornell University and the University of Minnesota. He is the former managing editor of the International Journal of Wilderness and co-wrote two textbooks with John Hendee: “Wilderness Management: Stewardship and Protection of Resources and Values” and “Introduction to Forests and Renewable Resources.”
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More Onondaga County residents died in 2020 than in at least 50 years. It wasn’t all Covid
Updated Feb 12, 2021;
Posted Feb 12, 2021
Workers staff the Syracuse Community Health Center coronavirus screening site at 819 S. Salina St. in March. Post-Standard file photo
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Syracuse, N.Y. – Onondaga County saw more people die in 2020 than any year since at least 1970 – but Covid-19 isn’t likely the only reason.
The county recorded 4,834 deaths last year, the most in at least 50 years. That is 457 deaths more than the average of the previous five years, a common statistical measuring stick.
The number of extra deaths matches almost exactly the confirmed toll from Covid-19, a disease caused by the novel coronavirus and unknown until early in 2020.