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It’s slow work for the forest to take back a road. But once the forest gets started, its work is relentless. The State of New York has owned the Burn Road on the north side of Little Tupper Lake, part of the William C. Whitney Wilderness area, since 1997 when it bought the 14,700-acre north […]
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Some major changes are afoot for our “Forever Wild” Adirondack Forest Preserve. Last fall, the Adirondack Park Agency (APA) held a series of “listening sessions” regarding possible amendments to the Adirondack Park State Land Master Plan (SLMP). The APA sought ideas and comments at these meetings, which staff members dutifully recorded. The APA also solicited […]
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Article XIV, Section 1, of the New York State Constitution states: “The lands of the state, now owned or hereafter acquired, constituting the forest preserve as now fixed by law, shall be forever kept as wild forest lands. They shall not be leased, sold or exchanged, or be taken by any corporation, public or private, […]
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In their recent Letter to the Editor, Philadelphia developer Michael Foxman and his partner Thomas Lawson, representatives of Adirondack Club & Resort (ACR) in Tupper Lake, impugned the “high motives” of Protect the Adirondacks in bringing a lawsuit against the Adirondack Park Agency (APA) for permitting this massive 6,000-acre development. Since PROTECT “could never have […]
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Protect the Adirondacks cheers the appointment of Steve Englebright (D-Setauket) as the new chairman of the Assembly Committee on Environmental Conservation. Assemblyman Englebright has served in the State Assembly since 1983, following service in the Suffolk County Legislature. Assemblyman Englebright has successfully passed far ranging legislation, such as the Assisted Living Reform Act of 2004 […]
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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has released his new 2014-15 state budget and it includes a boost in environmental spending for the Environmental Protection Fund (EPF). Governor Cuomo has proposed to increase the Environmental Protection Fund (EPF) to $172 million, a raise of $10 million over last year’s budget. The proposed EPF includes $25.5 million […]
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Protect the Adirondacks published an op-ed in the Plattsburgh Press Republican titled “Let Freedom Ring in Essex County.” This op-ed called on the Board of Supervisors to rescind its support for the vicious editorial published and then retracted by Denton Publications. Let Freedom Ring in Essex County Essex County is home to the tallest mountains […]
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When Protect the Adirondacks was viciously and unjustly attacked by Denton Publications, we talked to the newspaper and pointed out many factual errors and lapses of ethical standards in its editorial. The newspaper relented and published our response as well as an apology. It also announced reforms for how it would write editorials in the […]
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