The Northeast Wilderness Trust announced its intention to create the Moriah Wilderness Preserve, a 1,775-acre puzzle-piece that fits with other private- and state-protected lands in the Adirondack foothills that rise from the Champlain Valley.
To call these lands—which include the Hammond Pond Wild Forest and the Eddy Foundation’s Parch Pond tract—“underused” is to consider them from a purely human perspective.
For wildlife, the paucity of human activity is an obvious selling point, and among the goals of the preserve is to establish four-legged connectivity from
