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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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By Charles Morrison Protect’s Reply Brief for the Proposed Adirondack Club and Resort Project This is the Introduction from the Reply Brief and Closing Statement of Protect the Adirondacks! Inc. in the matter of the application to the Adirondack Park Agency (APA Project 2005-100) to construct the Adirondack Club and Resort as proposed by Preserve [...]
By Charles Morrison WHO PROTECTS THE ADIRONDACKS? WE DO………. PROTECT THE ADIRONDACKS! IS LEADING THE LEGAL FIGHT AGAINST THE ADIRONDACK CLUB AND RESORT, THE BIGGEST THREAT TO THE PARK IN DECADES. Our September 23rd post-hearing brief, prepared by our attorney, John Caffry, shows that the Adirondack Park Agency must deny ACR’s application to build almost 700 [...]
Protect the Adirondacks! needs your help to preserve this beloved Park of ours. The proposed development of the Adirondack Club & Resort (ACR) near Tupper Lake threatens to undermine more than three decades of environmental protection by challenging the fundamental tenet of the APA Act, which is that development should be concentrated in communities, and [...]
Friday, June 25, the Adirondack Park Agency adjudicatory hearings on the Adirondack Club and Resort ended. These hearings spanned over three months, covering 19 days of meetings. It is estimated that sometime during the Fall a determination will be made by the APA Commissioners. There are still closing statements that need to be filed by [...]
Adjudicatory Hearing 2011 ACR Meeting Schedule NOTE: modified as of 6/08/11. Group 3: Issues #5 and #6. Completed June 8. Issue #1 (continued). 10AM June 21-24, Location: Adirondack Park Agency Headquarters in Ray Brook. Interpretive summary of Issues: 1. Natural Resource protection, Great Camp Lots 2. Orvis Shooting School (withdrawn) 3. Impacts of West Slopeside and [...]
What do the data reveal? Let us know your insights. The 2010 Census data that will be released this year may provide some clues on questions we’ve been pondering. Protect the Adirondacks would like to know how you might answer the following about the towns where you live or work, visit often, or just love. [...]
