The purpose of this book is to develop personal wilderness skills in all participants emphasizing safety, survival and enjoyment.

This book transports you into the wilderness of New York State's Adirondack Park; a protected area not unlike what the Native Americans first encountered. Between 1998 and 2013, the author made twenty-four canoe excursions into the back reaches of the park; two-thirds of the time as a solo explorer and the rest with family. Most of the trips were in the off seasons, when few other campers were encountered, but wildlife abounded. Starting in 2005, at the age of 62, and with very little previous artistic experience, the author began a series of twenty-four exquisitely detailed pencil and graphite pictures drawn onsite during his treks into the wild. Each adventure is a short story onto itself, but interwoven within the narrative are the struggles everyone faces as they age. Hand-drawn maps and detailed descriptions of each trip, make this book a useful travel guide for future Adirondack adventurers.

The Assateague Beach Coast Guard Station station house, garage, and boathouse are part of the Assateague Island National Seashore (NS). The station house and the garage (the original boathouse) were built in 1922 when U.S. Coast Guard Station 150 was established at the southern end of Assateague Island in Assateague, Virginia. When the boathouse was constructed in 1938- 39 on Tom's Cove to the north of the station house, the original boathouse was converted to a garage. The Assateague Beach Coast Guard station was decommissioned in 1967, and the same year the site became part of the Assateague Island (ASIS) NS. Lack of park operating funds and infrequent usage of the site has resulted in increased deferred maintenance and a resulting loss of historic fabric. The buildings will require significant work that would potentially affect important features, necessitating the identification of the character- defining features to ensure the preservation of the structures' integrity, and to provide guidance for the reuse and preservation of the structures. This draft historic structure report for the Assateague Beach Coast Guard Station structures is an abbreviated Level II report. It was prepared for Assateague Island NS by the Building Conservation Branch (BCB) of the National Park Service's Northeast Cultural Resources Center. Preparation of this report began with historical and archival research, and physical and photographic documentation of the structures, which was conducted by BCB Architectural Conservators Maureen K. Phillips and John A. Scott. According to the terms of the project agreement, no fabric analysis (e.g., paint analysis, mortar analysis, etc.) was performed. The report was written by Architectural Conservator Maureen K. Phillips.

A summary of whether or not Fire Island's land management system has succeeded in achieving the public purposes laid out by Congress.