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    TRAILBLAZER: BOB LISENO

    Feb 21, 2020 4 minutes
    By Tracy Ormsbee

    Bob Liseno is quietly doing his part to keep an important Adirondack tradition alive.

    A few times a week he joins a classroom of 16- to 18-year-olds participating in the Franklin/Essex/Hamilton County Boards of Cooperative Educational Services program’s natural science class, which teaches Adirondack staples such as surveying, soil and tree identification, aquatic ecosystems, land use and forestry. And when Liseno comes to class, they are crafting a tongue-and-groove log lean-to.

    It’s 31 degrees on this January day at the back side of the Adirondack Education Center in Saranac Lake, with a dusting of snow and some ice on the ground. Three high school juniors, Tyler Yell, Cooper Grady and Logan Branch, are protected against the cold—not to

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