ECOS: The Environmental Clearinghouse
April 20, 2025

Spring Walk: High Point Trail, John Boyd Thacher State Park, Altamont

Old Stage Road, John Boyd Thacher State Park Old Stage Road, Altamont, NY, United States

A two-mile long hike. Highlights will include the High Point multi-state view, old stone walls, karst topography, and new friendships There is no significant elevation change; some of the footing is rocky. Avid hikers may [...]

Spring Walk: Fisher Trail, Slingerlands

Fisher Trail 47 Fisher Blvd, Slingerlands, NY

Fisher Trail is named for the fisher, a member of the weasel family found at Five Rivers, and for Fisher Blvd. It is ADA accessible to people with mobility disabilities and runs 0.66 mile from [...]

Spring walk: Lanford Wood Community Forest, Hoosick Falls

Lanford Wood Community Forest 90 Baertschi Rd., Hoosick Falls, NY

Lanford Wood Community Forest is a new 500-acre preserve owned by Hudson Taconic Lands.  It is mostly wooded and should have early spring wildflowers along the trail.  The trail does climb several hundred feet so [...]

Spring Walk: Knox Wetland Preserve, Knox

Knox Wetland Preserve Street Rd., Knox, NY

Knox Wetland Preserve, Knox: A broad boardwalk, accessible for people with mobility issues, takes us through prime birding habitat, where we can see species like Virginia Rail, Sora, Common Gallinule, American and Least Bittern, as [...]

Second Sunday Bird Walk: Peak Spring Migration Woodlawn Preserve

Woodlawn Preserve 441 Gifford Road, Schenectady, NY, United States

Peak Spring Migration! Join bird walk leader John Loz for a Spring Migration bird walk at this habitat known as the Schenectady Pine Barrens. For this walk we will look for spring migration songbirds, wading [...]