Public Comments
May 3, 2013 PROTECT submits Memo of Opposition to State Senate bill for second passage of Constitutional Amendment to provide Forest Preserve lands to a mining company
April 25, 2013 PROTECT calls upon the APA to include new Hudson Headwaters Wilderness Area as an official alternative during upcoming Forest Preserve classification public hearings
April 23, 2013 PROTECT opposes new legislation to create poorly conceived Transferrable Development Rights program in the Adirondack Park and change statutory permit filings requirements
April 10, 2013 Group letter about inadequacies of revised APA SEQRA Negative Declaration for new General Permit to streamline clearcutting
March 14, 2013 PROTECT urges denial of long seawall on state lands around the Sacandaga Reservoir
March 13, 2013 PROTECT urges APA and DEC to undertake assessment of no “material increase” for roads on the Forest Preserve
March 12, 2013 PROTECT comments to NYSDEC Regions 5 and 6 Open Space Advisory Committees
March 1, 2013 PROTECT urges Governor Cuomo and DEC Commissioner Martens not to open the Forest Preserve to ATVs
February 12, 2013 PROTECT and other groups submit letter urging the APA to delay action on a controversial draft General Permit to relax rules for clearcutting
February 8, 2013 Critique of SEQRA Negative Declaration and EAF issues by the APA in support of new General Permit to ease rules for forestland clearcutting by Caffry & Flower law firm on behalf of PROTECT
January 27, 2013 PROTECT asks DEC and APA to investigate wetlands and storm water pollution violations on new community connector snowmobile trail through the Moose River Plains
January 8, 2013 PROTECT writes the APA about the many incomplete assessments, studies, and inventories scheduled in various UMPs
January 7, 2013 PROTECT and four other Adirondack and regional environmental groups call upon Governor Cuomo and DEC Commissioner Martens to support Lake George to create new mandatory boat inspection and decontamination program to stop the spread of aquatic invasive species
January 3, 2013 PROTECT comments to APA and DEC about new community connector class II snowmobile trail building
December 10, 2012 PROTECT public comment on APA Draft General Permit for Clearcutting in the Adirondack Park
November 15, 2012 PROTECT comments on classification of TNC-Finch lands and associated map
