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 [...]
Protect the Adirondacks! PO Box 4124 Schenectady, New York 12304 New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Bureau of Wildlife 625 Broadway Albany, New York By e-mail RE: Bobcat Management Plan To Whom it May Concern: Protect opposes implementation of the “management Plan for Bobcat in New York State 2012-2017” because it is not based [...]
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 [...]
August 12th, 2012 Clean Waters Benefit, The Blue Mountain Center , Blue Mountain Lake. Help support Protect’s Adirondack Lakes Assessment Project and other programs of Protect.
Protect’s Annual meeting, being held at Tapawingo, a unique and secluded private home on Lake Placid will be on Saturday June 30th. Please Contact us if you wish to attend.
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 [...]
By CHARLES C. MORRISON Protect the Adirondacks! is as happy as everyone else about the success of the Saratoga and North Creek Railway between Saratoga Springs and North Creek. We wish SNCR well there. SNCR’s proposal to extend its operations to Tahawus is another story. Nearly half of the 30-mile right-of-way for the Tahawus spur [...]
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 [...]
