Adirondack Explorer

On the wild side

If you were an Adirondack otter, you might have mixed feelings about ice. Through spring, summer, and fall, you’d splash around your vast water park, diving and sliding and feasting on sushi. But then would come November or December ice to greatly restrict your movements.

A beaver might see the change in a similar way. Suddenly the big lumbering rodent’s free movements

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