Reporter Chris Knight reports that a judge tossed out some of the claims, some of the plaintiffs and some of the defendants but didn’t kill a federal lawsuit brought against the state by a group of disabled men who say they’ve been denied access to more than three dozen remote ponds and lakes in the Adirondacks.

A staff writer reports that the Adirondack Council will present its highest honor, the Conservationist of the Year Award, to the EPA during an awards ceremony on July 14.

Reporter Lohr McKinstry reports that the U.S. Surface Transportation Board has OK’d Saratoga & North Creek Railway’s proposal to reopen the Tahawus Line between North Creek and Newcomb’s Tahawus hamlet.

WAMC reports that a new study of mercury in Adirondack loons has found that the contaminant is having an impact on the population of the birds. 

AP reporter Mary Esch reports that a railroad company is renovating tracks to get at millions of tons of waste rock at an abandoned iron and titanium mine near the source of the New York’s Hudson River.

Reporter Brian Mann talks with Phil Brown of Adirondack Explorer magazine about questions facing the Adirondack Park.