Protect the Adirondacks
Protect the Adirondacks! Inc. is a non-profit, grassroots membership organization dedicated to the protection and stewardship of the public and private lands of the Adirondack Park, and to building the health and diversity of its natural and human communities for the benefit of current and future generations.
Members: Sign up for an “Online Action Briefings” about our work to protect the wild Adirondacks and sign up for a paperless membership!
Click here to participate in an online meeting with the staff of Protect the Adirondacks about our work to defend and protect the Adirondack Park and to sign up for a paperless membership.
The High Peaks Wilderness needs major management improvements and reforms
Click here to read recommendations from Protect the Adirondacks for the reform of the management of the High Peaks Wilderness area, the most popular area in the Adirondack Forest Preserve.
Sign Up as a Member
Become a member of Protect the Adirondacks and add your voice to the defense of the public Forest Preserve, protection of the great forests and waters of the Adirondacks, and help campaign for strengthening protections and improving the management of the six-million-acre Adirondack Park.
The link below will bring you to our secure page to sign up today as a new member.
Become an e-Activist
When you are an E-Activist, we will provide you with information on opportunities to take immediate action online, and also become involved, on an ongoing basis.
The link below will bring you to a quick and easy online form.
Conservation and Advocacy
May 25th daily COVID19 report in the New York: 2,516 confirmed cases in Adirondack Park counties, 28,747 in Upstate NY, and 362,764 in NYS
Updated May 25, 2020, 1:30 PM: Since the state's first [...]
Members: Sign up for “Online Action Briefings” about our work to protect the wild Adirondacks and sign up for a paperless membership!
This spring, as New York and many other places are [...]
New developments on the fates of defunct rail lines in the central Adirondacks; PROTECT calls for abandonment of these railroads
Protect the Adirondacks continues to support the adverse abandonment application with [...]
Public comment period on new Remsen – Lake Placid Travel Corridor Unit Management Plan Amendment runs until April 20, 2020
The Adirondack Park Agency is accepting comments on an amendment [...]
State budget addresses some environmental needs and challenges, while New York defers action on other Adirondacks priorities
In the first few days of April, Governor Andrew Cuomo [...]
During COVID-19 pandemic hike locally in New York State; don’t travel to hike in the Adirondacks
On Sunday evening, March 22, 2020, the State of New [...]