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Legislation is pending in the State Legislature for “second passage” of a Constitutional Amendment to transfer 200 acres of Forest Preserve lands in the Jay Mountain Wilderness to NYCO Minerals, Inc. This legislation has strong support from North Country elected state representatives. The Governor supports it and the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) is taking [...]
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The APA is set to take seven alternatives (an eighth is a “no action” alternative) to public hearing for formal Forest Preserve classifications of newly purchased lands around the Essex Chain Lakes and Upper Hudson River, OK Slip Falls and the Hudson Gorge, and lands at the confluence of the Indian and Hudson Rivers. These [...]
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Protect the Adirondacks has filed a Memo of Opposition with the State Senate against second passage of a Constitutional Amendment to swap Forest Preserve lands with NYCO Minerals, Inc., a mining company. NYCO currently operates two mines in the Town of Lewis and a processing plant in the Town of Willsboro. NYCO mines wollastonate, an [...]
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The protection of water quality is of singular great importance for the Adirondack Park and Adirondack communities. In the coming decades, if we are able to maintain stable water quality trends, this will help Adirondack communities enormously, not only for protecting the area’s high quality of life, but economically too. Clean water will be our [...]
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The Adirondack Park Agency continues to examine changing its review process to allow a General Permit for large clearcuts on commercial forestlands. Embarking on a new era of big clearcuts has ignited controversy in the Adirondack Park; see reports here and here. The APA’s new policy will pertain to forestlands that have received sustainable forestry [...]
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Protect the Adirondacks has called upon the Adirondack Park Agency to include a proposed 40,000-acre Hudson Headwaters Wilderness Area as an official alternative in its upcoming public hearings on Forest Preserve classification. The NYS Department of Environmental Conservation supports a Wild Forest classification for the Essex Chain of Lakes to facilitate floatplane use and extensive [...]
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From the Governor’s press office with pictures by Protect the Adirondacks: Governor Cuomo Announces State Closes on Second Phase of Former Finch Land Acquisition in The Adirondacks The Nature Conservancy to Provide $500,000 to State for Adirondack Communities to Promote Economic Development and Tourism Albany, NY (April 23, 2013) Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced [...]
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Last week, Protect the Adirondacks’s attorneys at Caffry and Flower filed the formal papers for the lawsuit challenging the state’s management of class II community connector snowmobile trails in the Forest Preserve. The case has been filed in Supreme Court, Albany County. At present, the state must serve its answer by May 20th, and the [...]
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This month the Center for Biological Diversity notified the US Fish & Wildlife Service of its intent to sue for protection for the Bicknell’s thrush (Catharus bicknelli) under the federal Endangered Species Act. The Bicknell’s thrush uses the high elevation forests of the northeast as its breeding habitat. Protect the Adirondacks executive director Peter Bauer [...]
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Gotta love it. Each year The Chronicle, published in Glens Falls, puts out an April Fools edition and each year many readers are caught unaware. This year PROTECT gets page 1 treatment in a made-up story about using unmanned predator drones to keep as watch on things in the Adirondack Park. The article states: “Four [...]
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