Stories of the Ausable
Reconnecting the North Branch Boquet River at Moss Road
In mid-July 2026, the Ausable Freshwater Center (AFC) finished its in-stream restoration at the Moss Road crossing of the North Branch Boquet River in the Town of Lewis. The pair of undersized culverts that had constricted the river and blocked fish for decades are gone, and a natural channel now carries the river through the site.
Native Habitat Requirements for Aquatic Species
Healthy rivers and streams are built from a balance of structural, water quality, and biological conditions. Each fish, mussel, insect, and aquatic plant in the Ausable River and other Adirondack watersheds depends on specific habitat features to survive...
A Local's Global Perspective on the Ausable
It must have been an early afternoon in July or August of 1982 when my dad, brother, and I left my great-great uncle's dairy farm on Cumberland Head in the 1925 Dodge sailboat my dad had salvaged in Westport the year I was born. Uncle Al, then in his...
