Gary Chilson, President, Adirondack Research Consortium
Jon Erickson, Cornell Center for the Environment
Michael Wilson, Sagamore Institute

Chair: Joe Rota (Local Government Review Board)

David Allee (Cornell Local Government Program), Organizing Watersheds for Protection and Development

Richard Lamb (SUNY Plattsburgh), Chateaugay Lakes Management Plan

Deb Brighton (Ad Hoc Associates), Property Taxes, Growth, and Land Conservation in the Adirondacks

Richard Purdue (Town of Indian Lake), The Indian Lake Case Study: Can Local Zoning Succeed in the Adirondacks?

John Barge, Susan Parker, and Karen Roy (NYS Adirondack Park Agency), Demonstration of GIS applications in a rapid document and map retrievalsystem for Adirondack wetlands

Ecologically Sustainable Development, Inc., Applying the Adirondack Parkmodel and Article XIV in the Siberian Taiga

Lee Herrington (SUNY-ESF), A workshop application of GIS ARCVIEW to the Northern Forest Lands Inventory Project

Patricia Prindle (Association for the Protection of the Adirondacks), Resources of the Adirondack Research Library Collection

Raymond Masters (SUNY-ESF, Adirondack Ecological Center), A Winter Bird Survey of Four Adirondack Forest Habitats

Kathy Regan (Adirondack Nature Conservancy/Adirondack Land Trust), Assessing the Blowdown of 7/15/95: Natural diseaster or ecological opportunity?

Jon D. Erickson (Cornell University), The ARC World Wide Web Page

Lyle Raymond (Cornell Local Government Program) and Laurel Gailor (Warren County Coop. Extension), The Local Government/Lake George Watershed Seminar

Richard Widmann (USDA Forest Service), NYS Forest Lands Inventory

Moderator: Susan Senecah, SUNY ESF

Gregory Campbell, Chairman, NYS Adirondack Park Agency Commissioners

Daniel Fitts, Executive Director, NYS Adirondack Park Agency

Timothy Burke, Executive Director, The Adirondack Council

Dean LeFebvre, Supervisor, Town of Altamont; Director, Association of Adirondack Towns & Villages

Peter Bauer, Executive Director, Residents' Committee to Protect the Adirondacks

Michael Wilson (Sagamore Institute), Public Interpretation of Great Camp Sagamore: Using History on Behalf of Sustainablity

Chair: Michael Martin (Adirondack Aquatic Institute, Paul Smith's College)

Stephen Penningroth (Cornell CfE) and Angela Benedict-Dunn (Akwesasne TaskForce on the Environment), The Akwesasne Environmental Laboratory

Allison Aldous (Cornell University), The Effects of Atmospheric Nitrate Deposition on Wetland Mosses

Judith Halstead (Skidmore College), Wet Precipitation in Upstate New York

Stefan Brown & Otto Doering (Purdue University), Rewriting the TradablePermit Rules to Protect Clean Air Interests: The Consequences for Clean-upCosts and Industry Behavior

Chair: Ward Stone (NYS Dept. of Environmental Conservation)

William Porter (SUNY-ESF), Discovery and Implications of MetapopulationStructure in Whitetail Deer in the Adirondacks

Stacy McNulty (SUNY-ESF), Forest Management Implications of Altered SocialStructure in Local Adirondack Whitetail Deer Populations

Joseph Weber and Milo Richmond (Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Cornell University), An Index of Red Fox Density Using Remotely SensedVegetation Characteristics

Chair: James Gould (Paul Smith's College)

Jack Rezelman (SUNY-Potsdam), Evolution of Land Ownership and Use Patterns:Longitudinal Evidence from Sample Areas

Robert Glennon, Peter Paine, and Elizabeth Thorndike (past commissioners,Adirondack Park Agency), The Adirondack Park State Land Master Plan, 1972-1995

Margaret Brennan, Donn Derr, Fang Du, and William Preston (RutgersUniversity), Land Use Controls for the New Jersey Pinelands & N.Y.'s Adirondack Park: A Comparative Analysis of Economic Impacts & Institutional Frameworks

Brenda Holzinger (Cornell University), The Adirondacks: An Eco-feminist Challenge to N.Y. State's Vanguard Environmental Policy

Chair: Curt Stager (Paul Smith's College)

Sushil Dixit (Queen's University, Ontario), Paleoenvironmental Monitoring of Lakes

Brian Cumming (Queen's University, Ontario), Tracking Lake Acidification Trajectories in the Adirondacks: A Paleolimnological Perspective

C. P. Cirmo (Susquehanna University), J. J. McDonnell and M.T. Mitchell(SUNY-ESF), The Huntington Watershed Project: Combining Research with Pedagogy in a Hydrobiogeochemical Field Investigation

Hallie Bond (The Adirondack Museum), Boats and Boating in the Adirondacks

Chair: Michael G. DiNunzio (The Adirondack Council)

Richard Widmann and David Drake (USDA Forest Service), Forest Resources on Private Land Within the Adirondack Park

Jeffrey Niese (USDA Forest Service) and Barbara McMartin (Canada Lake), Defining and Locating Adirondack Red Spruce Old-Growth Stands

Richard Sage (SUNY-ESF, Adirondack Ecological Center), The Huntington Forest Natural Area: Forty-Five Years of Change

Jerry Jenkins (White Creek Field Station, Bard College), Establishing a Control Study in Five Ponds Wilderness for Measuring Sustainable Management Practices

Chair: John Davis (Wild Earth, The Wildlands Project)

David Gibson (Association for the Protection of the Adirondacks), Rivers Running Free: Contesting the Future of Adirondack Rivers

Chad Dawson (SUNY-ESF), Wilderness Use and Preservation: A ProposedAdirondack Wilderness Planning Strategy

Mary Granskou (Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society), The Conservation Potential of the Frontenac Axis: Linking Ontario's Algonquin Park to the Adirondacks

William Weber (Wildlife Conservation Society), The Adirondacks in Global Perspective

Moderator: Thomas Cobb, Interstate Park Commission

Alan Schwartz, St. Lawrence University
Charles Mitchell, Elmira College
Michael Wilson, Paul Smith's College
John Omohundro, SUNY Potsdam
Katherine Hargis, Skidmore College
Susan Carroll, The Adirondack Museum
Gail Rice, North Country Community College

Chair: Duane Chapman (Cornell University)

Mary Roden-Tice and Steven Tice (SUNY Plattsburgh), Early Cretaceous Unroofing of the Adirondack Mountains: Based on Apatite Fission Tracking

Jerold Pepper (The Adirondack Museum), When Men and Mountains Meet: Mapping the Adirondacks

Michael Brennan (APA Visitor Interpretive Center, Paul Smiths), Jenkins Mountain Trail: Considerations for Opening a Summit

Peter Redmond (US EPA/University of Maryland), Protecting Islands in theSky: Lessons from the Adirondack Summit Steward Program

Ann Melious (Skidmore College), Placing a Value on Recreation in the Adirondack High Peaks Wilderness Area: Interpreting the Results of a 1995 Willingness-to-PaySurvey of 250 Hikers

A few outgoing words from the ARC's first president . . .