Anne LaBastille's off-grid Adirondack home and 32 acres are now protected

There was no electricity. No running water. No telephone. No road leading to the property. Deep in New York's Adirondack wilderness, Anne LaBastille chose to build a life that most people would have considered impossibly difficult. In 1964, she built a tiny 12-by-12-foot log cabin on the shore of Twitchell Lake, creating a home where modern conveniences were almost entirely absent.LaBastille, a wildlife ecologist, writer and conservationist, spent much of her life in the Adirondacks, documenting the realities of living close to nature through her writing. Her experiences became the basis of her celebrated “Woodswoman” memoir series, beginning with the book “Woodswoman”, published in 1976. The series chronicled her life in the remote Adirondacks and her relationship with the wilderness. Today, the remote property she once called home has a different kind of legacy.