Fighting bugs with bugs
Nicholas Dietschler and Marshall Lefebvre were in a boat headed out to Lake George’s Paradise Bay, a cooler set between them.
They were not out for a picnic.
On this sunny, blustery May day, the pair of researchers from Cornell University’s New York State Hemlock Initiative were headed to the lake’s eastern shores to help save the most common shoreline tree in the watershed—hemlocks.
Last summer, a camper discovered the Adirondack Park’s second known infestation of the invasive hemlock woolly adelgid, on Lake George in Washington County. The state Department of Environmental Conservation has identified some
