Are you finding it a challenge to navigate this winter's everchanging climate? We humans have the ability to adjust with our clothing, but how do those fragile plants survive? Come listen to the presentation from Kayla White, Adirondack Club Summit Steward Coordinator who monitors these plants and evaluate their growth at our March program.

New York's alpine zone is a dangerous, gripping, and magnificent place. The exposed, mercurial world above tree line often features slippery ice, ripping wind and drifting snow fields. While humans can be warmly-clad visitors in this harsh environment, this fragile ecological zone is also home to specially-adapted alpine plants that survive here year-round. Over the centuries a cyclic interplay of ice, wind, and snow have all shaped the alpine zone, making it an environment in which only tundra plants can survive.

[source: Adirondack Mountain Club website, 2019-Mar-4]