Conservation News
- Adirondack Club and Resort Proposal Remains Massive Threat to Park.
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- Governor Pataki’s Adirondack Snowmobile Plan encourages more motorized use of the NYS Forest Preserve.
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- North Country Office Speaks Up for Rare Adirondack Ecosystems:
- Read our latest Issues and Actions Journal (
PDF 1.1MB) 11/1/06
- Full Text of “Wilderness and our Community of Life”
By Ed Zahniser, delivered at Tannery Pond Community Center, North Creek
August 20, 2006
As part of the AfPA's Arthur M. Crocker Series of Lectures and Seminars 10/1/06 - AfPA and RCPA announce important DEC concession;
DEC withdraws Gore Mountain Plan approval; Commits to new Environmental Impact Assessment in North Creek. 8/31/06 - Ed Zahniser speaks on Wilderness and our Community of Life
Ed Zahniser, son of federal Wilderness Act author Howard Zahniser, will speak about America's and Adirondack concerns for wilderness. 8/7/06 - New Report Exposes Major Flaws in Economic and Fiscal Impact Analysis Used to Justify Scheme to Build Massive Development in Tupper Lake 7/13/06
- Tree-Cutting to Maintain Scenic Views in Wilderness Areas
Contradicts Wilderness Principles and Master Plan; Association Comments on Blue Ridge Wilderness Plan. 7/6/06 - The Association applauds State Legislature's passage of land exchange to permit power line to adjoin Rt. 56 6/23/06
- Adirondack Organization Holds
105th Annual Meeting in Lake Placid;
Focus is on the future of the Northern Forest;
Canoe Raffle Caps off the Meeting 6/14/06 - Adirondack Park Agency Fails to Live Up to its Values and Regulations: Ignores Public’s Call for a Hearing on 3.5 Mile Long Shoreline Development 6/14/06
- Now you can search our library catalog online. 5/23/06
- The Association has issued "Public Navigation Rights in New York State: Questions and Answers," an informative brochure about the common law right of public travel on New York's freshwater rivers, streams, lakes and other waterways that are navigable-in-fact. 5/23/06
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Association Calls For Bold, Comprehensive Program to Create New Energy Future For Adirondack Park
The Association unveils its Power for the Park report at the Adirondack Research Consortium Annual Conference on the Adirondacks in Lake Placid on Thursday May 25, calling it a "blueprint for action" to deal comprehensively with the economic, social, and environmental challenges of energy production, delivery, and use in the Adirondack Park. 5/23/06
- Peter Roemer, Native of the Bronx, NY receives Adirondack award;
Award named for author of federal Wilderness Act of 1964 5/5/06 - Association offers praise and criticism for the draft Moose River Plains Wild Forest Unit Management Plan:
Roadside camping remains big stumbling block. 5/4/06 - Association to the APA:
"There must be no material increase in the mileage open to public use of motorized vehicles in the Adirondack Forest Preserve." 4/4/06 - Illegal tree-cutting on the Forest Preserve receives vigorous and proper response 3/31/06
- Read our March 2006 Issues and Actions Journal( PDF 1.6MB). 3/22/06
- Read the Association's comment letter to the DEC regarding the Blue Ridge Wilderness and Wakely Mountain Primitive Area UMP. 3/10/06
- The Association recently called upon the New York Power Authority (NYPA) to go back to the drawing boards and redraft its environmental assessment of a new power line proposed for the Tri-Lakes Region of Lake Placid, Saranac Lake, Tupper Lake, and surrounding communities. 3/6/06
- The Association is calling on Governor Pataki and his state agencies to strongly condemn and remedy the illegal cutting in August, 2005 of approximately 5,000 trees on the public Forest Preserve 2/14/06
- Discover how the latest energy-saving technologies in buildings can save you money! North Country Energy $mart Communities and others are sposoring a free seminar on energy solutions for small businesses, institutions and municipalities, February 15 in Saranac Lake 1/31/06
- After the Gas Runs Out: Civic Democracy and Prospects for Life and Living Inside the Blue Line - Summary of a presentation given by Dr. Bill Vitek in Keene Valley, NY on November 11th, 2005, as part of the Arthur M. Crocker Lecture Series. 1/22/06
- Association Helps Launch First Comprehensive Inventory of All Life in The Adirondack Park 1/22/06
- Concerned Citizens of Tupper Lake join the Association in opposing town rezoning 12/27/05
- The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will not appeal U.S. District Court decisions earlier this year striking down the Service's reclassification of gray wolf populations from endangered to threatened for much of the species' current range in the United States. 12/21/05
- Read the Association's comments on the DEC 2005 Open Space Conservation Plan 12/12/05
- 2005 December 4 - Bill McKibben Speaks at the Center for the Forest Preserve
- 2005 November 2 - The Association Announces Opposition to proposed "Adirondack Club and Resort Project". Read our past letters to the APA regarding this project here and here
- 2005, November 2 - e-news - The Association featured in the Adirondack Explorer; The Association announces its opposition to the Tupper Lake Club and Resort; Upcoming Events; Kevin Prickett’s Work Featured by NYS DEC
- 2005, October 20 - The Aldo Leopold Foundation Visits The Center for the Forest Preserve
- 2005 September 9 - Thousands of Trees on State Forest Preserve Cut along NYS Rt. 3; Excessive DOT Tree Cutting Violates State Policy for the Adirondacks
- 2005 September 9 - The Association Announces the Creation of its North Country Team
- 2005 August 25 - Adirondack Park Agency Pays Heed to Association's Advocacy for Public Hearing on Mountaintop Communication Towers
- 2005 August 25 - An Update on the Energy $mart™ Park Initiative
- View the Summer 2005 Issues & Actions Journal( PDF 2.3MB) 8/19/05
- 2005 July 15 - Public Navigation Rights in New York State: Questions and Answers (44 pgs)
- 2005 July 8 - Association Launches Energy $mart Park Initiative at Its 104th Annual Meeting
- 2005 June 23 - Greater Protection of Rare Boreal Forest Threatened by Motorized Recreation Needed
- 2005 June 6 - A Special Evening on June 27 about the Leopold legacy
- 2005 May 23 - Letter to NYS APA re: Completeness Determination for Project Application 2005-0100, Preserve Associates, LLC, for the proposed Adirondack Club and Resort
- 2005 May 16 - Letter to Rob Davies, NYS DEC re: DEC's All Terrain Vehicle Policy
- 2005 May 02 - Letter to Editor, The Post Star, Glens Falls, N.Y. re: Wind Towers
- 2005 Apr 21 - e-news - Work at the Center and at the Adirondack Park, Open Houses in May
- 2005 Apr 18 - Association Opposes Barton Mines Wind Power Proposal
- 2005 Apr 11 - Roads Policy Must Reflect Comprehensive Plan - Letter to Peter Frank at NYSDEC
- 2005 March 16 - e-news - Association receives regonition, and more . . .
- 2005 February 28 - Group Letter to APA re: Siamese Ponds Wilderness Area UMP and Indian Lake Islands Campground
- 2005 February 28 - Association coordinates response to ill-conceived proposal for wilderness campground
- 2005 February 11 - Court Decision Reverses Attempt to Reduce Protected Status of Wolves
- 2005 February 9 - Association Asks APA-DEC Staff to Bring Plans into Compliance (Siamese Ponds Wilderness and Vanderwhacker Wild Forest)
- 2005 February 7 - e-news - Association has a home; is poised to stand up for Wilderness and Wild Forest; to Receive ADK's David L. Newhouse Conservation Award for 2005
- 2005 February 1 - Defenders of Wildlife News Release re Wolf Court Decision
- 2005 January 14 - e-news - A Fond Farewell to Arthur Crocker
- 2005 January 3 - Two major development projects on the APA'S January agenda require more scrutiny and public input
- 2004 December 28 - Comments to APA re: conceptual review of the "Preserve" on Tupper Lake.
- 2004 December 13 - e-news - Moving to the Center for the Forest Preserve; Split Rock Wild Forest; "The Preserve" at Tupper Lake
- 2004 Dec 13 - To: Stewart Brown, NYSDEC Lands & Forest Office - Re: Split Rock Wild Forest UMP
- 2004 December 01 - Letter to George Outcalt, Jr., APA Re. Application No. 2001-0245, Saratoga County Communication Towers
- 2004 November 26 - Dave Gibson's Notes from the National Wilderness 40th Anniversary Conference
- 2004 November 18 - Association objects to Proposal to Remove Wolves from the federal list of threatened and endangered species
- 2004 November 18 - Letter to US Fish & Wildlife Service regarding Eastern Gray Wolf
- 2004 November - News from the National Wilderness 40th Anniversary Conference
- 2004 October - Wilderness Proclamation Announced
- 2004 October 1 - Howard Zahniser Award for Wilderness Achievement - Goes to Former DEC and APA Commissioners
- 2004 August 12 - Tax Breaks to Adirondack and Catskill Communities