Adirondack Park Agency

Mr. Mucilli/Mr. Simonds 24 October 2017 Adirondack Sundown Essay Assignment The Adirondack Park is a significant location in the novel Adirondack Sundown. Graham Scott and Sarah Waters were picnicking one day at Rockwood State Forest when Graham suddenly had to go back to work, Sarah stayed behind to take pictures of the scenery and then, she was abducted. Many places in the Adirondacks are very significant to the story. Some places in the Adirondack Park that are in the novel are Kane Mountain

The Mohonk Mountain House is located near the Catskill Mountains in New York. It was founded in 1869 by Albert Smiley and is currently a National Historical Landmark. This Victorian Castle resort is surrounded by natural hiking trails and a beautiful lake. Hiking The Mohonk offers miles of hiking trails that guests and visitors can access for a long winding hike through the mountains. Visitors can take a short, guided walk with a naturalist too. There are morning canoe tours for guests on Lake

Environment Status: To Be Determined Some humans spend their time obsessing over super-heroes while others are obsessing over saving the planet but is there a possible super- power capable of doing so? As emphasized in “Man and Nature” written in 2002 by George Perkins Marsh, a key figure to the commencement of environmentalism (“George Perkins Marsh”, 2015), mankind has done its fair share of destroying nature’s functionality with expectations of a futile environment in return. Although there are

National Park and the battle to preserve it. Yellowstone National Park was established in 1872 as the first national park, and was made up of two million acres (Class notes). In the early stages of this becoming a National Park it was not done so to save the parks nature and animals, it was done so to show how useless to civilization this land was. This process overcame many challenges, the biggest one being the railroads and the private industries (Class notes). Adirondack State Park was also

Set high in the Adirondack Mountains range, Lake Placid, a sizeable freshwater lake, lends its name to the village which lies on its shores. Ripe with history, Lake Placid has flourished as an Olympic Village since its settlement in the nineteenth century. Over the course of these last two-hundred years, residents have built and rebuilt Lake Placid Homes which have experienced history in the making firsthand. The first documented settlers of Lake Placid arrived with the discovery of iron ore nearby

opened the tube and removed a 3-foot-by-3-foot topographical map. He unrolled the map on the table and placed silverware on the corners to hold the ends down. The topographical map detailed the elevation and GPS coordinates for Sleeping Giant State Park. One of the attorneys removed a document from his briefcase. “This is the deed,” he said. “All the GPS coordinates are documented according to this map. I just got off the phone with your attorney and the governor. The state has agreed to the terms

take action against them. In this time the clams were able to heavily multiply and thus exacerbate the problem even further. Upon seeing this, Lake George took immediate actions to assemble a task force to combat the clams. The Lake George and Adirondack Park Civic and Regulatory Communities formalized the organization known

trudged into cities for work, America underwent rapid urbanization and subsequently the segmentation of some immigrant groups in ghettos, slums, and red-light districts. In addition, growing cities attracted young people with amusement parks like Coney Island and Luna park, crafting a sense of magical escapism while cities brought to light new political issues such as pollution, tenements and poverty, and corrupt local governments (Lecture, February 13, 2017). These niche cultural hubs drew the interest

Portraying the sublime evolved as industrialization speed up manufacturing. Adams aimed for a wider audience, as he believed only when the public sees the beauty of the wilderness would they understand why conservation mattered. Adams understood “the photographer could play a vital role, rousing awareness and inciting action. He saw this as his personal mission” (Spaulding, 1995, pp. 217-218). This was evident in Adams iconic partnership with Nancy Newhall and in their book, This Is the American

ACCESS TO INFRASTRUCTURE Montreal’s public transit system, run by STM (societe de transport de Montreal, the agency responsible for operating the city’s bus and Metro services.) was founded in 1950 and is the fourteenth biggest employer in Quebec province. STM holds importance as 22.2% of Montreal’s working population use public transit to commute to and from work