PROTECT the Adirondacks! has hired Peter Bauer as its new Executive Director. Starting full-time after Labor Day, Bauer will coordinate PROTECT’s citizen advocacy activities and provide leadership to monitor public agencies, conduct research, and manage the organization’s programs for the Adirondack Park. For more information: Chuck Clusen, co-chair, 202-289-2412 Lorraine Duvall, co-chair, 518-576-9109 Robert Harrison, [...]
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, March 20, 2012 For More Information: Protect the Adirondacks! Bob Glennon 518-891-5195 oseetahbob@yahoo.com John Caffry 518-792-1582 jcaffry@caffrylawoffice.com Sierra Club Roger Downs 518-426-9144 roger.downs@sierraclub.org Charlie Morrison 518-583-2212 charlescmorrisonjr@gmail.com PROTECT THE ADIRONDACKS!, SIERRA CLUB AND ADJOINING LANDOWNERS CHALLENGE ADIRONDACK PARK AGENCY’S APPROVAL OF LARGEST DEVELOPMENT PROJECT TO EVER COME BEFORE IT ALBANY–The grassroots [...]
February 8, 2012 In the Adirondacks, Joy and Fear Over What a Resort May Bring By LISA W. FODERARO TUPPER LAKE, N.Y. — This once-proud logging town in the northern Adirondacks has an embarrassment of natural riches: forested mountains, crystalline lakes, clean air and trout-filled streams. But a string of economic blows has left the [...]
RAYBROOK, NY—The decision by the Adirondack Park Agency (APA) to approve the massive Adirondack Club and Resort (ACR) project is an abdication of the Agency’s legal responsibility to uphold state law, according to one of the park’s leading environmental groups. Protect the Adirondacks!, which has consistently opposed the ACR application for fiscal as well as [...]
The decision expected this week by the Adirondack Park Agency on the huge Adirondack Club and Resort project in Tupper Lake would appear to be a choice between spurring economic growth and protecting the environment. That is not the choice. The project does not comply with state law. The choice the APA has is a [...]
A couple who lived for 30 years near Schroon Lake, NY, have left a generous bequest to the environmental group Protect the Adirondacks! to further their lifetime wish for preservation of wild places in the Adirondacks. Bob and Marie Snyder were deeply appreciative of the natural world in all its beauty and infinite variety. They [...]
We had a very successful 2011 preserving the Park through our stewardship and advocacy efforts. Our forestry and lake assessment programs continue to contribute to the sustainability of our lands and waters. Protect’s active Conservation Advocacy Committee is laying the groundwork for new Park advocacy efforts. In the adjudicatory hearing for the Adirondack Club and [...]
To top off a very successful summer of managing the Adirondack Lake Assessment Program (ALAP) monitors and sponsors, PROTECT held our annual Clean Water Benefit at a wonderful venue, with a new “cooperative” schedule of events. We were invited to use the Adirondack Interpretive Center in Newcomb (formerly the VIC) by Paul Hai, Program [...]
For Immediate Release: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 Contact: Neil Woodworth (ADK), (518) 449-3870 Dale Jeffers (PROTECT), (518) 438-2000 John Caffry (Caffry & Flower), (518) 792-1582 ALBANY, N.Y. – A state court ruled this week that the bed and waters of Lows Lake in the heart of the Adirondacks are Wilderness. Supreme Court Justice Michael C. [...]
Eighty three Protect members enjoyed the Annual meeting on Saturday, June 25 at the Read Great Camp on Little Simon Pond in Tupper Lake. The Main Lodge at Three Star Camp The meeting began at 11 am with a welcome by Lorraine Duvall, Membership Chair and Co-Chair of Protect, and Curtis Read, our Three Star [...]
