Michael Kudish

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Michael Kudish is an author, railroad historian, forester, and retired professor. He received his Ph.D from the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry at Syracuse. His dissertation, on the history of Catskill forests, was the beginning of a lifelong study. It was later expanded and published as The Catskill Forest: A History.

As a professor in the Division of Forestry at Paul Smith's College, he has written three books on the vegetation of the Adirondacks, including Adirondack Upland Flora, a number of articles on forest history of both the Catskills and Adirondacks.^[1] As a railroad historian, he wrote Where Did The Tracks Go?, an initial description of railroads in the Adironadacks, followed by Railroads of the Adirondacks, for a long time considered the definitive work on the subject. He has retired from Paul Smiths, moved to the Catskills, and is working on a four-volume set on the Mountain Railroads of New York State. It updates RotA in three volumes, and adds a volume covering the Catskills.