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, [...]
Protect the Adirondacks has called upon the Department of Environmental Conservation to study the reintroduction of wolves and cougars as part of its new Wildlife Action Plan. The draft Wildlife Action Plan lists 366 wildlife [...]
July 8, 2015 Hon. Lani Ulrich, Chair NYS Adirondack Park Agency PO Box 99 Ray Brook, NY 12977 RE: Public Comment on Proposed Community Connector Trail UMPĂ‚Â Amendments Dear Chairwoman Ulrich, We respectfully submit these comments, [...]
In 2014, the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) built a new class II community connector snowmobile trail called the Gilmantwon trail through a southern part of the Jessup River Wild Forest area. These types of [...]
The Adirondack Park is undergoing the greatest expansion of motorized recreational uses in the history of the "forever wild" Forest Preserve. With each new Unit Management Plan (UMP) or amendment, motorized uses are expanded primarily [...]
The Adirondack Park Agency is holding a public hearing on a proposed draft plan for new "community connector" snowmobile trails. The proposed new trail network will link the communities of Newcomb with North Hudson and [...]