WINTER TREK
By Jack McShane
I am just down from a two-hour hike up along the top ridge here in Bussey Hollow snow country. With three inches of fresh tracking snow, twenty-five degrees, windless (the key to comfort), it does not get better than this for a wildlife fanatic who had not been out for two days because of a wind chill factor near zero.
WHY I’M HERE
By Jack McShane
Like many flatlanders who have moved up from down state, I did so to get away from population growth and density and its consequences …
ROGUE HUNTERS
By Jack McShane
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) is concerned about the decreasing number of hunters and how this will have a very negative impact on their ability to control the ever expanding deer herd in many parts of the state.
JACK’S VIEW
By Jack McShane
Morning starts before dawn and this dawn is spectacular as sunlight creeps into the sky. I am perched twenty feet up in a maple tree midway up on the ridge on my property here in Bussey Hollow in Andes.