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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Governor and state Legislators wrapped up the 2013-14 state budget this week. Environmental spending was increased after years of a steady downward slide. Allocations for land acquisition for the state lands and state parks [...]
The Center for Biological Diversity filed a "formal notice of intent" to sue the US Fish & Wildlife Service for failing to make a decision on its 2010 petition to protect the Bicknell's thrush [...]
The US Census came out with its 2012 population estimates last week. Note that these are only estimates and  that these figures are not considered as credible as the decennial Census conducted at the end [...]
Protect the Adirondacks is very concerned about efforts underway by the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) to open new areas of the "forever wild" Forest Preserve to use by All Terrain Vehicles (ATVs). In our [...]