Adirondack Explorer

In a gray area

long roads and in sunny fields and disturbed places, we spy red foxes (see page 62) often in the Adirondacks, streaking across our peripheral vision or pouncing on mice. Yet let us not forget that while we’re seeing red, these mountains also represent a gray area. In shady hardwood forests and mixed woodlands, gray foxes, not color variants of the red but representatives of a

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