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Protect the Adirondacks and the Sierra Club launched a lawsuit to challenge the Adirondack Park Agency’s approval of 6,000-acre Adirondack Club & Resort project in Tupper Lake in March 2012. This followed years on monitoring this project and intervening in the official public hearing. PROTECT believes that this project sets a dangerous and ruinous precedent [...]
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Updated December 20, 2012 PROTECT is working and advocating for the creation of a new 39,000-acre Wilderness Area that centers on 22 miles of the Upper Hudson River. This new Wilderness area would be made up of roughly 20,000 acres of new lands soon to be purchased for the Forest Preserve from The Nature Conservancy [...]
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Protect the Adirondacks manages the largest water quality monitoring program in the Adirondack Park in partnership with the Adirondack Watersheds Institute at Paul Smith’s College. In 2012, 69 lakes and ponds were enrolled in this program, with over 100 volunteers involved. This partnership is called the Adirondack Lakes Assessment Program (ALAP) and it’s been in [...]
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The Adirondack Park Agency (APA) has begun an official process to loosen rules to make clearcutting Adirondack forests much easier. The APA passed a draft new General Permit at its November Board meeting and issued a notice to take public comments in the Environmental Notice Bulletin on November 28th. Public comments will be accepted until [...]
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Please sign the new petition at www.adirondackparkpetition.com Protect the Adirondacks! and other groups have organized an online petition to Governor Andrew Cuomo and Joe Martens, Commissioner of the Department of Environmental Conservation, calling on them to purchase over 65,000 acres of the former Finch, Pruyn and Company lands in the central Adirondacks now owned by [...]
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