SUNY Adirondack's Outdoor Education program learns about our region's natural beauty, how to enjoy it and how to help maintain it. The professors, instructors and students frequently tackle cleanup projects, trail maintenance and other volunteer efforts, including:

2021: Removed and replaced damaged, impassable bridge and repaired wet spots throughout the college's trail system

2021: Removed invasive species and planted 150 native trees and shrubs

2020: Planted 150 trees and shrubs in the spring (no students were involved because of the pandemic) and 75 apple and nut trees in the fall

2019: Removed honeysuckle and planted blue spruce, white spruce, elderberry and white birch trees

2018: Removed old culverts and replaced with a bridge to minimize erosion; removed a half-acre of honeysuckle and planted sugar maple, white oak and sycamore trees

2017: Planted balsam fir, sugar maple, white oak, white birch, elderberry, silky dogwood and arrow wood virburnum trees

2016: Removal of honeysuckle at Pilot Knob Preserve