In 1998, researchers at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry’s Adirondack Ecological Center radio-collared a 700-pound female moose and released her into the woods. They named her Alice.
Two years later, Alice began a 350-mile journey northwest through the Adirondacks and across St. Lawrence Valley farmland. She swam the St. Lawrence River into Canada, clambered across Canada’s busiest superhighway, and made her way through the rocky Laurentian shield to Ontario’s massive Algonquin Provincial Park, where she lived until her death by unknown causes in 2001.
Alice inspired the creation of a nonprofit—the Algonquin to Adirondacks Collaborative (A2A)—dedicated to preserving the
