ARC

Adirondacks

Annual Conference

1995 Sessions:

  1. Session I
  2. Poster Session
  3. Session II
  4. Session III
  5. Session IV
  6. Keynote Address
  7. Session V
  8. ARC Business Meeting

AJES

Research Links

 

Second Annual Conference on the Adirondacks

May 22 & 23, 1995
State University of New York, Plattsburgh

sponsored by the

Adirondack Research Consortium and SUNY Plattsburgh

chaired by

Malcolm Fairweather (SUNY-Plattsburgh)

 

Monday, May 22

Welcome and Opening Comments

H.Z. Liu (SUNY Plattsburgh)

Gary Chilson (Paul Smith's College), President of the Adirondack Research Consortium

Session I

Chair: Richard Lamb (SUNY Plattsburgh)

Michael T. Carr (Lake George Basin Land Conservancy) & Brian McMahon (The Saratoga Associates), Lake George Basin Land Conservancy Conservation Strategy

Robin Ulmer (Boquet River Association), An Approach for Local Stewardship of Adirondack Resources Through TourismCooperation

Timothy P. Holmes (Holmes & Associates), Bicycle Master Plan for the Adirondack North Country Region of N.Y. State

Bryan Higgins (SUNY Plattsburgh) and Richard Kujawa (St. Michael's College), Dissecting Public Opinion and Participation in Water Resources Planning bythe Lake Champlain Basin Program

Poster Session

Eileen B. Allen (SUNY Plattsburgh), Aaron L. Bogucki (St. Lawrence University), Brent B. Deshaies, Thomas L. Litts, & Cheryl M. McCormick (SUNY Plattsburgh), Developing a Digital Database for Watershed/Wetland Relationships in theOswegatchie/Black River Basin

Lee Herrington & Jeff Nugent (SUNY ESF), Northern Forest Lands Inventory - A Geographic Database

Frank Revetta, Alan Schoonmaker, Brian O'Brian, Brendan Fisher, and Carolyn Taylor (SUNY Plattsburgh), Relationship of Gravity Anomalies to the Geology and Seismicity in theNorthern Adirondacks

Thomas Rumney (SUNY Plattsburgh), Development of the Winter Sports Landscape of the Adirondacks: Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

Sandra Bureau (Adirondack Park Visitor Interpretative Center, Newcomb), Posing Questions: Student Research at the Adirondack Park Visitor Interpretive Center in Newcomb

Session II

Chair: Ian Worley (University of Vermont)

Raymond P. Curran and Karen M. Roy (Adirondack Park Agency), EPA Funded Wetland Program Assistance

Michael R. Martin (Adirondack Aquatic Institute), Watershed Planning in the Adirondack Case Study: Blue Mountain Lake

Alexander J. Roth and Thomas Carr (Middlebury College), The Economics of Land Preservation and Zoning in the Adirondack Park: An Empirical Analysis

Session III

Chair: Thomas Pasquarello, SUNY Cortland

Paul M. Gunning (SUNY ESF), Implementation Analysis of New York State's Real Property Tax Law Section 480-a and Its Proposed Amendment "480-b"

John S. Wellis (Wentworth Institute of Technology), Cohousing: Alternative Housing for the Adirondack Hamlets

Shanna Ratner (Yellow Wood Associates, Inc.), Measuring Community Development Capacity in the Adirondacks

Ernest Huntington (Finch, Pruyn and Co., Inc.), Benefits of Recreational Leasing to the People and Places of the Adirondack Park

Session IV

Chair: Chad Dawson (SUNY ESF)

Bruce T. Lauber (Cornell University), The Fairness of Citizen Participation: A Case Study of the Moose Reintroduction Issue

Walt Aikman (SUNY ESF), Forests and Freedom: Protests, Power and the Culture of Exclusion in the Adirondacks

Michael Wilson (Sagamore Institute), The Environmental History of Bog River: Interpreting the NYS Forest Preserve as Cultural Landscape

Keynote Address

William R. Burch, Jr.
Hixon Professor of Natural Resource Management,
Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies

The Relevance of the Adirondack Park 'Experiment'
to a Wider World

 

Tuesday, May 23

Introduction

Gary Chilson (Paul Smith's College)

Session V

Chair: Lee Herrington (SUNY ESF)

David A. Franzi, SUNY Plattsburgh), Deglaciation and Proglacial Lake Succession in the Northeastern Adirondack Mountains and Northwestern Champlain Valley Region

James B. Hyde (Adirondack Aquatic Institute), Can External Sources Alone Account for Elevated Summer-Time Total Phosphorus Concentrations in the North Basin of Upper Saranac Lake?

Edwin H. White & Charles E. Z. Buxbaum (SUNY ESF), Christopher A. Nowak (USDA Forest Service), Nutrient Cycling in Aggrading Forests: 50 Years of Research at Pach Forest, N.Y.

Richard W. Sage, Jr. (Adirondack Ecological Center, SUNY ESF), The Impacts of Beech Bark Disease on Adirondack Forests: Past, Present, Future

Adirondack Research Consortium Business Meeting

Chair: Gary Chilson (Paul Smith's College), 1st President of the Adirondack Research Consortium