Myth Information
Scott van Laer, a recently retired Department of Environmental Conservation forest ranger, knows a thing or two about how to safely recreate outdoors. After three decades working to protect the environment while educating, rescuing and recovering folks, first in the Catskills and then in the Adirondacks, he’s an expert and then some. These days he shares his knowledge as director of the Paul Smith’s College Visitor Interpretive Center (www.paulsmithsvic.org). He was gracious enough to chat with Adirondack Life about common questions—and myths—that arise when playing in the great outdoors.
Does peeing around your campsite keep wildlife away?
If anything it might be the inverse—when animals mark their territory,
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