Nice, balmy winter and so much for ice fishing

When living on Plattsburgh Air Force Base across Lake Champlain from where I now live, the big lake always froze over as winter got going. I recall watching deer on the ice near Crab Island from a window of our home in base housing overlooking the lake. That was in the late 80s. Now, Lake Champlain is wide open. That’s it for ice fishing. And it is hard not to think of climate change when thinking of the big lake. Today’s NY Times has this feature about ice fishing and the lack thereof in Minnesota.