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The Adirondack Mountains: Wilderness P- Reservation Or Bioregional Vision?
View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by The Trumpeter - Journal of Ecosophy (Athabasca University) Trumpeter (1994) ISSN: 0832-6193 THE ADIRONDACK MOUNTAINS: WILDERNESS P- RESERVATION OR BIOREGIONAL VISION? Glenn Harris St. Lawrence University THE ADIRONDACK MOUNTAINS: WILDERNESS PRESERVATION OR BIOREGIONAL VISION? 2 Glenn Harris is Professor and Culpeper Teaching Fellow in the Environmental Studies Program at St. Lawrence University, Can- ton, NY, USA. There has been, for many years, considerable debate over the efficacy of the different levels of government in the solution of environmental problems. On the one hand, it is believed that a strongly authoritarian government, or oli- garchy, will be necessary if widespread disruptions to the environment are to be arrested.1 On the other hand, it is thought that meaningful and permanent so- lutions for environmental problems can only develop within political institutions permitting active involvement by people.2 This debate reflects a conflict along similar political lines in the Adirondack region of New York State. Since the establishment of the Adirondack Forest Preserve in the 1880s, there has been ongoing controversy. A fundamental issue is the balance of power between state and local governments; in the Adirondack mountains, local governments felt their powers usurped when the Adirondack Park was formed in 1892. The park contains a mix of private and state-owned land. Approximately 60 While the concerns of local government are rooted fundamentally in issues of self-determination and autonomy, they are usually expressed in terms of land- use control and taxation.4 A large amount of evidence supports the assertion that local governments desire more power to deal with land-use questions. -
The Fossil Record of Cnidarian Medusae Graham A
Available online at www.sciencedirect.com Palaeoworld 19 (2010) 212–221 Research paper The fossil record of cnidarian medusae Graham A. Young a,b,∗, James W. Hagadorn c a The Manitoba Museum, 190 Rupert Avenue, Winnipeg, MB, R3B 0N2, Canada b Department of Geological Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, R3T 2N2, Canada c Department of Earth Sciences, Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Denver, CO 80205, USA Received 1 March 2010; received in revised form 6 April 2010; accepted 9 September 2010 Available online 21 September 2010 Abstract Fossils of cnidarian medusae are extremely rare, although reports of fossil “medusoids,” most of which do not represent medusae, are rather common. Our previous inability to distinguish these fossils has hampered attempts to investigate patterns and processes within the medusozoan fossil record. Here we describe criteria for the recognition of bona fide fossil medusae and use them to assess the evolutionary, paleoenvironmental, and taphonomic history of the Medusozoa. Criteria include distinctive sedimentologic and taphonomic features that result from transport, stranding, and burial of hydrous clasts, as well as unequivocal body structures comparable to those of extant animals. Because the latter are uncommon, most fossil medusae remain in open nomenclature; many are assigned to stem-group scyphozoans. The majority of described medusae are associated with coastal depositional environments (such as tidal flats or lagoons). They rarely occur in oxygen-poor deeper-water facies. All medusan groups have long geologic histories. Scyphozoa are known from the Cambrian, but more derived scyphomedusae were not demonstrably present until the Carboniferous; Mesozoic scyphozoans are rather diverse. -
National Register of Historic Places Multiple Property Documentation Form
NFS Form 10-900-b United States Department of the Interior National-Park Service National Register of Historic Places Multiple Property Documentation Form This form is used for documenting multiple property groups relating to one or several historic contexts. See instructions in How to Complete the Multiple Property Documentation Form (National Register Bulletin 16B). Complete each item by entering the requested information. For additional space, use continuation sheets (Form 10-900-a). Use a typewriter, word processor, or computer to complete all items. 13 New Submission d Amended Submission A. Name of Multiple Property Listing_______________________________________ Historic Bridges of the AuSable River Valley B. Associated Historic Contexts 1. Settlement, Community Development and the Development of Land-based Transportation Systems in the AuSable River Valley, 1790 - 1948. 2. Evolution of 19 and Early 20 th Century Rural Bridge Design and Construction, 1840 - 1941. C. Form Prepared by name/title Steven Engelhart (Adirondack Architectural Heritage), Consultant organization Friends of the North Countrv, Inc date 2/20/98 street & number 1 A Mill Street, PO Box 446 telephone 518-834-9606 city or town Keeseville state New York zip code 12944 Edited by: Linda M. Garofalini, Historic Preservation Program Analyst (6/4/99) New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation Peebles Island, PO Box 1 89 Waterford, NY 12188-0189 Phone: 518-237-8643 ext.3267 D. Certification As the designated authority under the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended, I hereby certify that this documentation form meets the National Register documentation standards and sets forth requirements for the listing of related properties consistent with the National Register criteria. -
Sedimentology and Stratigraphy of the Cambrian-Ordovician Potsdam Group (Altona, Ausable and Keeseville Formations), Northeastern Ny
SEDIMENTOLOGY AND STRATIGRAPHY OF THE CAMBRIAN-ORDOVICIAN POTSDAM GROUP (ALTONA, AUSABLE AND KEESEVILLE FORMATIONS), NORTHEASTERN NY DAVE LOWE Department of Earth Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada RYAN BRINK, CHARLOTTE MEHRTENS Department of Geology, University of Vermont, Burlington 05405 INTRODUCTION Geological Setting The Cambrian to Lower Ordovician Potsdam Group is the lowermost unit of the Paleozoic platform succession overlying rocks of the 1 – 1.5 Ga Grenville orogen within the Ottawa Embayment and Quebec Basin, two semi-connected fault-bounded basins that form an inboard salient of the St. Lawrence platform succession in eastern Ontario, northern New York State and western Quebec, over an area of approximately 26,000 km2 (Figure 1). Potsdam strata was deposited from the Late Early Cambrian until the Early Ordovician at subequatorial latitudes between 10o – 30o south approximately 200 – 400 km inboard of the south-facing Laurentian margin, during the late postrift and subsequent passive margin phase associated with the rifting and breakup of Rodinia (Torsvik et al. 1996; McCausland et al. 2007, 2011; Lavoie, 2008; Allen et al., 2009; Figure 2). It is mainly a siliciclastic unit that, in general, exhibits an upwards progression from terrestrial to marine deposits (Sanford and Arnott, 2010; with some exceptions, including the Altona Formation and Riviere Aux Outardes Member, see below). This terrestrial to marine progression is shared by stratal equivalents of the Potsdam Group on the Laurentian margin and in other North American cratonic basins that collectively form at the base of the Sauk Megasequence, a transgressive Megasequence that records eustatic rise across much of Early Paleozoic Laurentia preceding the Taconic Orogeny (Sloss, 1963; Lavoie, 2008). -
Aspects of the Glacial Geology of Keene and Lower Ausable Valleys, Northeastern Adirondack Mountains, New York
ASPECTS OF THE GLACIAL GEOLOGY OF KEENE AND LOWER AUSABLE VALLEYS, NORTHEASTERN ADIRONDACK MOUNTAINS, NEW YORK JOHN A. DIEMER Department of Geography and Earth Sciences University of North Carolina at Charlotte Charlotte, NC 28223 DAVID A. FRANZ! Center for Earth and Environmental Science State University of New York at Plattsburgh Plattsburgh, NY 12901 INTRODUCTION The existence of Late Quaternary proglacial lakes in the Adirondacks has long been suspected (Taylor, 1897; Kemp, 1898; Ogilvie, 1902; Alling, 1916, 1919; Denny, 1974; Craft, 1976; Gurricri, 1983; Diemer, ~., 1984; Gurrieri and Musiker, 1988). Sedimentary deposits interpreted as dropstone-bearing varves and landforms interpreted as incised outlet channels, deltas and wave-formed beaches have been used as evidence for the existence of these intermontane proglacial lakes. On this trip, we propose to document some of these features in Keene and lower Ausable Valleys of the northeast Adirondacks. We will also discuss some constraints on the history of deglaciation of this region. Much work on the glacial geology of the northeast Adirondacks remains to be done and we hope you find this trip to be provocative. FIELD AREA Keene Va11ey extends northward 35 km (22 mi) from St. Huberts to Au Sable Forks (Figure 1). Waters from the Upper and Lower A usable Lakes feed the East Branch of the Ausable River which flows northward through Keene Valley. The elevation of the valley floor is 340 m (1117 ft) at St. Huberts (Figure 2), 254 m (833 ft) at Keene (Figure 3), and 170 m (558 ft) at Au Sable Forks (Figure 4). The West Branch of the Ausable River originates to the south of Lake Placid (Figure 1). -
Barrington, D. S. and C. A. Paris. 2007. Refugia and Migration in The
RHODORA, Vol. 109, No. 940, pp. 369–386, 2007 E Copyright 2007 by the New England Botanical Club REFUGIA AND MIGRATION IN THE QUATERNARY HISTORY OF THE NEW ENGLAND FLORA DAVID S. BARRINGTON AND CATHERINE A. PARIS Department of Plant Biology, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405 e-mail: [email protected]; [email protected] ABSTRACT. New data sets and analytic techniques provide the tools to build a new perception of changes in the New England flora following the retreat of the last Pleistocene continental glacier. We consider a set of 13 species for which genetic data are available in the context of 1) the fossil record when available, and 2) the evidence of the distribution of appropriate habitat in the late Pleistocene and Holocene. The current New England flora is derived from a diverse set of refugia including the High Arctic, the serpentines of the American West, and the unglaciated and now submerged North Atlantic coastal plain as well as the traditional refugia to the south, both along the coastal plain and to the west in the lower Mississippi valley. This analysis demonstrates that present-day communities are in fact transient, constantly changing assemblages of species. Key Words: Holocene, New England flora, biogeography, genetic diversity, plant migration, refugia One of the prominent themes in the first century of the New England Botanical Club was exploration of the biogeographic origins of the New England flora. Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1873– 1950), a dominant influence in the first 50 years of the Club’s history, was especially interested in the impact of Pleistocene glaciation on the flora (e.g., Fernald 1925). -
Town of Wilmington Section II. Inventory and Analysis
Town of Wilmington Local Waterfront Revitalization Program Section II Inventory and Analysis General Description of Wilmington and its Waterfront The Town of Wilmington is located in northern Essex County, within the Adirondack Park. Wilmington has a quaint hamlet, magnificent mountains and the beautiful Ausable River. Making it unique is its location at the foot of spectacular Whiteface Mountain amid the high peaks of the Adirondacks. Wilmington is 10 miles from Lake Placid and 30 miles from Plattsburgh. The West Branch of the Ausable River is a powerful and beautiful river that has long been a focal point in the Adirondack Park. Its situation at the base of the Stephenson and Sentinel Mountain Ranges, ease of physical access, proximity to abundant natural resources and beauty are the reasons Wilmington was founded in 1821 and why it remains a visitor destination today. The West Branch of the Ausable River is also recognized internationally as one of the finest fly-fishing venues in the Northeastern United States. Approaching Wilmington along Route 86 from Lake Placid, the area is characterized primarily by the rugged wilderness beauty and the ever-changing colors of rocks and trees. This route follows the west branch of the Ausable River on one side of the road; the other side is primarily lined with rocky, wooded ledges. A number of trailheads are visible, as well as parking areas leading to other trails and ponds. Driving through “The Notch” (approximately 5 miles north of Lake Placid) is an experience unto its own. The road narrows and is guarded by rock walls and lush vegetation. -
Evolving Preservation and Facies Distribution of Fossil Jellyfish: a Slowly Closing Taphonomic Window
TO L O N O G E I L C A A P I ' T A A T L E I I A Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana, 59 (3), 2020, 185-203. Modena C N O A S S. P. I. Evolving preservation and facies distribution of fossil jellyfish: a slowly closing taphonomic window Graham A. You ng * & James W. Hagadorn G.A. Young, Manitoba Museum, 190 Rupert Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; [email protected] *corresponding author J.W. Hagadorn, Department of Earth Sciences, Denver Museum of Nature & Science, Denver, CO 80205, USA; [email protected] KEY WORDS - Cnidaria, medusae, jellyfish blooms, taphonomy, fossilisation, Konservat-Lagerstätten. ABSTRACT - Although medusoids (medusa-like fossils, putative medusae) are widely reported in the literature, there are only thirteen confirmed medusa-bearing deposits. These have a predictable and evolving distribution through time and across facies - including in coarse clastic sand flats where mouldic preservation predominates, restricted lagoonal facies where anoxia and hypersalinity fostered preservation, and offshore settings where rapid burial and early diagenetic mineralisation catalysed preservation. The medusan preservational window became progressively more restricted through the Phanerozoic. Preservation in sandy beach and sandflat facies is only known from the Cambrian, there are no open shelf medusa-bearing deposits after the Carboniferous, and the latest known lagoonal fossil medusae are from the lower Cenozoic. This restriction in occurrence through time is associated with changes in bioturbation, evolution of scavengers, occurrence of microbial mats, and possibly evolution of microbial communities. There is evidence of jellyfish blooms in five of the thirteen deposits, and medusan fossilisation may have been associated with anoxia caused by the partial decomposition of large masses of dead medusae. -
Geology of the Plattsburgh and Rouses New York-Vermont, Quadrangles
Geology of the Plattsburgh and Rouses New York-Vermont, Quadrangles DONALD W. FISHER The gastropod, Maclurites magnus Le Sueur (xl) from the Chazyan Crown Point Limestone. Moc/ur/tes SPECIAL BULLETIN NO. 1, 1968 VERMONT GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, BURLINGTON CHARLES G. DOLL, STATE GEOLOGIST Vermont Water Resources Department, Monipelier Figure 1 WORLD PHANEROZOIC TIME SCALE Era Perod Epoch Description MILLIONS OF YEARS PLEISTOCENE 1/p-2r,Mon O P I GENE 7 ------ Large carnivores bundant grazing mammals. NI 0 TERTIARY arge running mammals. any modern types of mammals. UPALEOCENE arliest placental mammals UPPER Earliest flowering plants. 0 CRETACEOUS 10 Climax of dinosaurs and ammonites-followed by extinction. Great decline of brachiopods. Great development of bony fishes. LOWER 0 NI 13 Z 0 UPPER 16 Earliest birds and mammals, JURASSIC MIDDLE 0 17 Abundant dinosaurs and ammonites LOWER 190-9 UPPER 20 TRIASS/C MIDDLE Earliest dinosaurs, Abundant cycads and conifers. 21 UPPER Extinction of many kinds marine animals 1 including trilobites. PERM/AN LOWER Little change in terrestrial animals. (II) 28C 0 PENNSYLVANIAN Earliest reptiles. Great coal-forming forests. N CARBONIFEROIIS *31C Abundant sharks and amphibians. 0 MISSISSIPPIAN Large and numerous scale trees and seed ferns. MIDDLE DEVON/AN Earliest amphibians and ommonites. Extinction LOWER of armored fishes, other fishes abundant. Earliest terrestrial plants and animals. SILURIAN Peak development of eurypterids. LU. UPPER --- - -- Earliest fishes. Invertebrates dominant -coelenterates • ORDO V/C/A N and mollusks become abundant, echinoderms expand • --- U LOWER II in numbers and kinds. 'Sn UPPER 515 u_ MIDDLE CAMBRIAN Earliest abundant record of marine life 540 Trilobites dominant. -
Guide to the Geology of the Champlain Valley
Sorel Geology of the Champlain Valley Québec Richelieu River The geologic history of the Champlain Valley National Heritage Partnership (CNHP) region is varied and dynamic. Over the last 500 million years, it has been covered with a warm shallow sea, a mile-high 1 Alburgh sheet of ice, a large glacial lake, and an arm of the Atlantic Ocean. 2 Isle La Motte More than 500 million years ago the Iapetus Ocean, a 3 Lyon Mountain Lake Champlain warm, shallow sea, existed in what is now the Champlain and Upper Hudson basins. Over 400 million years ago, the Ausable Chasm 5 4 Burlington Iapetus Ocean closed and the sedimentary rocks of the 6 shoreline and continental shelf were folded and faulted to form the Green Mountains. During this process of mountain New York building, the older sedimentary rocks were altered by heat and pressure into metamorphic rocks such as marble and slate. Port Henry 7 Vermont In addition, portions of the earth’s crust broke and moved as large fault blocks, causing younger rocks to be pushed up and Crown Point 8 over metamorphosed continental shelf rocks beneath. This is how the Taconic Mountains were formed. Unlike the Green and Taconic Mountains, the Adirondacks Lake George 9 Proctor are a unique dome formation, which started rising about 5 million years ago. As the dome rose, successively older rock Lake George layers were eroded away, exposing today’s surface rocks that Granville 10 formed deep within the crust more than one billion years ago. The earth began to warmChamplain some 12,500Canal years Approximately 3 million years ago the Great Ice Age began, ago and the ice retreated, forming Lake with glaciers advancing and retreating across North America. -
Ediacaran–Ordovician of East Laurentia— S
EDIACARAN–ORDOVICIAN OF EAST LAURENTIA— S. W. FORD MEMORIAL VOLUME THE UNIVERSITY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK Regents of The University ROBERT M. BENNETT, Chancellor, B.A., M.S. .......................................................................................................... Tonawanda MERRYL H. TISCH, Vice Chancellor, B.A., M.A. Ed.D. ........................................................................................... New York SAUL B. COHEN, B.A., M.A., Ph.D. ........................................................................................................................ New Rochelle JAMES C. DAWSON, A.A., B.A., M.S., Ph.D. ........................................................................................................... Peru ANTHONY S. BOTTAR, B.A., J.D. .............................................................................................................................. Syracuse GERALDINE D. CHAPEY, B.A., M.A., Ed.D. ............................................................................................................ Belle Harbor ARNOLD B. GARDNER, B.A., LL.B. .......................................................................................................................... Buffalo HARRY PHILLIPS, 3rd, B.A., M.S.F.S. ....................................................................................................................... Hartsdale JOSEPH E. BOWMAN,JR., B.A., M.L.S., M.A., M.Ed., Ed.D. ................................................................................. Albany -
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