In the summer of 1998, a professor of natural sciences at Paul Smith’s College, Curt Stager, celebrated the slow return of moose to the Adirondacks in a column in a newly launched magazine, Adirondack Explorer. The animals, nearly eliminated by hunters during the 19th century, Stager noted, were up to about 100 in the park.
“With all the hot air blowing over the issue of reintroducing wolves to the Adirondacks, it’s refreshing to watch moose quietly come back on their own,” Stager wrote.
In that same issue
