The park district is preparing to open the hills by powering up their snow-making machines to ensure there is fresh powder for sledders and snowboarders to go down the hill. Weather permitting ...

Non-forest alpine plant communities exist on 11 of the Adirondack ... the dominant species on the saturated acid-peat soils or floating mats surrounding the open water area of bogs. Northern white ...

The cooler temperatures shifted the tree line downslope and transformed the high mountain landscape from forest to the alpine tundra that exists today. One of the paper's authors, David McWethy ...