Protect the Adirondacks has reviewed Governor Cuomo’s draft 2020-2021 budget for the State of New York and provides the following comments. Restore Mother Nature Bond Act The Governor proposes a new $3 billion bond [...]
Student enrollment in public schools is falling in every county in New York outside of New York City, except for one. School enrollments in 57 of New York’s 63 counties from Suffolk to Erie, Orange [...]
We need you to come and help lobby Legislators to defend and protect the Adirondack Park! Sign up to join in for Environmental Lobby Day, Monday February 10, 2020, at the State Capitol in Albany, NY. Come [...]
Bond Act would fund land protection, habitat restoration, clean water projects, fishery protections, expand renewable energy resources, and protect wildlife habitat, among many other green projects Bond Act would be voted on in November 2020 [...]
Protect the Adirondacks has organized and is implementing a 2020 Agenda for the Adirondack Park that aims to expand protections of our environment while improving the quality of life and economy in local communities. This [...]
The 2018 population estimates by US Census are out, which look at changes in the last decade since 2010. The Census reports that New York’s population in these years is estimated to have grown by [...]
2019 saw a number of key victories that advanced protections for the Adirondack Park. Protect the Adirondacks not only played a key role in helping to win these new protections, but we also worked to [...]
Yes, build the Hudson River Bike Trail from North Creek to Saratoga Springs. Build it, and they will come. They did not come for the ill-fated commuter trains, snow train, tourist trains, or rail service [...]
Letter from PROTECT Board Chair Chuck Clusen outlines accomplishments of 2019 and challenges of 2020. Click here to read our new Annual Report 2018-19. Dear PROTECT members: We’re only a few months from 2020, the [...]
A coalition of Adirondack Park and Catskill Park groups call upon the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation to manage the NYS Forest Rangers as a separate bureau and not merge this uniquely trained group of [...]
