How We Survive Winter
Dec. 20, 2020
The solstice arrives in the depths of the pandemic. But the season of darkness also offers ancient lessons of hope and renewal. For generations, as the days darkened and the blizzards came, the Anishinaabe people warned of the Windigo. He is the monster of winter, dripping with ice and white with snow, and he is starving, said Robin Wall Kimmerer, a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, as she remembered the story of her ancestors. He is a human turned cannibal. His hunger is never satiated, and it endangers everyone around him. He thinks only of himself.
Dec 17, 2020 The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and Friends of Camp Santanoni announced on Wednesday that the 2021 Winter Weekend events at Camp Santanoni in Newcomb are being canceled out of an abundance of caution to prevent the community spread of COVID-19. Three Winter Weekend events have been held for seven consecutive years at Camp Santanoni in the Adirondacks. This year, organizers determined the indoor spaces used for the events are too small to safely accommodate typical attendance numbers under current health guidelines. DEC and its partners hope to resume these popular winter events in 2022. The events are hosted by the Friends of Camp Santanoni and SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry’s Adirondack Interpretive Center. The Friends of Camp Santanoni is a partnership between DEC, Adirondack Architectural Heritage, the town of Newcomb, and volunteers who support preserving this Great Camp for public education, recreation and in
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Nicole Hilton-Patterson, director of Adirondack Diversity Institute, accepts an award from the environmental advocacy group Adirondack Wild in Saranac Lake. (News photo â Aaron Cerbone)
SARANAC LAKE Adirondack Wild awarded Adirondack Diversity Initiative Director Nicole Hylton-Patterson the 2020 Wild Stewardship Award on Nov. 27. “We’re just getting started,” she said, saying she has a lot planned for 2021. David Gibson, managing partner of the environmental advocacy group, said this award is usually given to individuals doing work in the wilderness, but this year he felt it was necessary to recognize someone working to bring in a new, diverse generation of wilderness stewards.
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Spend time in any of the world s great forests and you ll start seeing the trees as immense pillars holding the heavens aloft while firmly anchored in the earth. It s as much fact as sentiment. Trees really do link the ground to the sky by exchanging energy and matter between the soil and the atmosphere. Researchers believe that understanding this connection could provide both a wealth of scientific insight into ecosystems and practical applications that address challenges such as water resource conservation and management.
A recent study led by UC Santa Barbara s Marc Mayes investigates how patterns in tree water loss to the atmosphere, tracked with satellite imagery, relates to groundwater supplies. The results validate at landscape-wide scales ideas that scientists have proposed based on decades of research in labs and greenhouses. What s more, the techniques lend themselves to an accurate, efficient way of monitoring groundwater resources over large areas. The findings
COVID cancels winter weekends at Camp Santanoni historic site
Cross country skiers and snowshoers can still visit, but no events this year
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Skiers can still visit Camp Santantoni in the Adirondacks but the weekend events are canceled due to COVID-19.Rick Karlin/Times Union
NEWCOMB – Cross country skiers are welcome to visit Camp Santanoni this snow season but the Winter Weekend events at that have taken place during the last seven winters are canceled this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The state Department of Environmental Conservation and Friends of Camp Santanoni have hosted skiing and snowshoeing visitors to the historic Great Camp located on a 9.8-mile roundtrip trail during the past seven winter seasons.