This is the first of three "reflections" on the recent approval of the new Essex Chain Lakes Complex Unit Management Plan that widely violated longstanding state environmental laws and management policies and regulations for the [...]
Iowa Pacific CEO told the Post Star in Glens Falls that he has found little interest in storage of used oil tanker rail cars The Post Star is reporting that plans by Iowa Pacific for [...]
Public comments are needed by October 16th. Please submit your public comment today! The Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has finalized the Essex Chain Complex Final Unit Management Plan (ECCFUMP), which it completed after a [...]
The 18,000-acre Kushaqua Conservation Easement tract is home to some of the heaviest forest clearcutting in the Adirondack Park. The current owner of the tract's "forest management" rights is Lyme Timber Company, which owns over [...]
The Department of Environmental Conservation has released for a new draft Recreation Management Plan (RMP) for the 18,000-acre Kushaqua Conservation Easement tract. This is a major forest tract in the Adirondack Park and is larger [...]
PROTECT's recent visit to Iowa Pacific rail car storage area in Essex County found rail cars left to deteriorate in a remote section of the Adirondack Forest Preserve Iowa Pacific's poor storage of passenger rail [...]
A new proposal has been floated, or perhaps the decision has already been made, to line hundreds of used and oil-soaked tanker cars along the Essex County portion of the Tahawus railroad. The Saratoga-North Creek [...]
July 20, 2015 Hon. Eric Schneiderman Attorney General The Capitol Albany, NY 12224-0341 Hon. Thomas DiNapoli Office of the State Comptroller 110 State Street Albany, NY 12236 Hon. Catherine Leahy Scott Inspector General Empire State [...]
The Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has released a new draft Unit Management Plan for the Essex Chain Lakes Complex area, which includes lands classified as Primitive and Wild Forest. It's a vast, sprawling area [...]
Article XIV, Section 1, has been amended 15 times since 1938. It has been amended four times since 2007, making this period the most active and intensive in Forest Preserve history. Two other Article XIV, [...]