What's Your Nature?
Become a Nature Up North explorer to share your encounters with wild things and wild places in New York's North Country. Post your wildlife sightings, landscape shots, photos from your outings, and even your organization's events!
Save Your Ash! Promise New York That You Won't Move Firewood.
What is a better way to kick off the summer and the 4th of July weekend than by planning a family camping trip or cookout? However, no camping trip is complete without roasting s’mores! Yet, most of us probably don’t think about where that firewood for our campfire came from or what might be in it. If you’ve ever taken a walk through the woods you have probably heard a pileated woodpecker whacking at a tree in search
Conservation Field Day at Indian Creek Nature Center
On May 15th, over 60 fifth grade students and students from Colton-Pierrepont, St.
Creative Captures: Making Nature Art
Self-expressions through explorations of our five senses in nature
By Allison Paludi and Kate Almon
Celebrating the Earth: Planting a Tree
The celebration of Mother Earth, although undoubtedly something that should be practiced every day, is made official this Tuesday with Earth Day. This international holiday was first held on April 22nd 1970 and was the result of a campaign for clearer, cleaner air.
Happy as Bugs in Freezing Water
This year Nature Up North is featuring a Winter Ecology Series, in which St. Lawrence University students in Dr. Karl McKnight's Winter Ecology course share their observations from a weekly field trip to Glenmeal State Forest in Pierrepont. As winter turns to spring, we hope you enjoy their accounts from days spent in the woods observing the reawakening of North Country species.
By Sam Haab
4/3/14
The Circle of Life and Death in the North Country
This year Nature Up North is featuring a Winter Ecology Series, in which St. Lawrence University students in Dr. Karl McKnight's Winter Ecology course share their observations from a weekly field trip to Glenmeal State Forest in Pierrepont. We hope you enjoy their accounts from days spent in the woods examining the fascinating ways plants and animals endure the North Country winter.
WARNING: The post below contains images that some may find disturbing.
A Mysterious Track Leads to Cold Feet
This winter Nature Up North is featuring a Winter Ecology Series, in which St. Lawrence University students in Dr. Karl McKnight's Winter Ecology course share their observations from a weekly field trip to Glenmeal State Forest in Pierrepont. We hope you enjoy their accounts from days spent in the woods examining the fascinating ways plants and animals endure the North Country winter.
Kevin Tyler
3/13/2014
The Hunt for Winter Wildflowers
This winter Nature Up North is featuring a Winter Ecology Series, in which St. Lawrence University students in Dr. Karl McKnight's Winter Ecology course share their observations from a weekly field trip to Glenmeal State Forest in Pierrepont. We hope you enjoy their accounts from days spent in the woods examining the fascinating ways plants and animals endure the North Country winter.
By Kevin Tyler
3/06/2014
North Country Gold
Now is the time to relish the unique flavors of North Country syrup. Maybe you have noticed the North Country's eager response to the March weather in the form of blue tubing, metal buckets or the sweet smell of condensed sap-water boiling away. Although starting late, the sugaring season is now in full swing. This weekend is MapleWeekend in the North Country.
A modern Adirondack Amazon
I had my doubts about a tracking workshop staged the day after a rain-turned-ice storm in the middle of February. How little I knew! Although small in stature, Andrea and her dog Jasper (who regularly runs with coyotes!) commanded the conference room this Saturday in the Wachtmeister Field Station at St. Lawrence University for the sixth segment of the spring North Country Folk Series.
