Acid Rain in the AdirondacksAcid rain has changed the face of the Adirondacks, created political tensions between the Northeast and the Midwest, and served as both a harbinger of global climate change and a "fire drill" for public and private sector responses to environmental crises. The history of acid rain research is a striking case in which a large scale and long term environmental problem was addressed in part through scientifically motivated changes in public policy. In