In early 2022, the Adirondack Park Agency (APA) issued a permit for the controversial new granite quarry mine in White Lake in the western Adirondack Park in the Town of Forestport, Oneida County. Area residents [...]
Protect the Adirondacks filed a new lawsuit challenging the APA’s failure to require a Wetlands Permit, since the marina is located in wetlands, and challenges the APA’s new approval of a Variance for the marina [...]
Assessing the carrying capacity of specific areas of the public Forest Preserve, especially lakes and ponds, has been a requirement of the Adirondack Park State Land Master Plan for decades. Despite the plain language of [...]
The 2023 Annual Members Meeting for Protect the Adirondacks was held on Saturday, July 22, 2023, at the Adirondack Gateway at Frontier Town (Exit 29). The day featured our business meeting on the state of [...]
Important Notice: Annual Meeting Location Has Been Changed. The location for the 2023 annual membership meeting of Protect the Adirondacks has been moved from the Visitor Interpretive Center in Newcomb to the Exit 29 (Adirondack [...]
Road salt pollution in Adirondacks lakes has been well documented over the last three decades and spotlighted for political action over the last decade. Contamination of residential and small business drinking water wells in lands [...]
The best investment in Adirondack conservation and environmental protection that you can make. Adirondack 500 is a group of dedicated donors who commit to an annual contribution at the level of their choice to support [...]
New York State becomes the 9th state to ban wildlife killing contests On June 21, 2023, the NYS Assembly passed legislation carried by Deborah Glick, Chair of the Assembly Committee on Environmental Conservation, to ban [...]
In June, a draft Article 14 Constitutional Amendment was passed by both the State Senate and State Assembly to clean up violations at the Mount Van Hoevenberg Winter Sports Complex outside of Lake Placid. This [...]
Don’t privatize the Public Forest Preserve, this bad deal for forever wild must be stopped! Protect the Adirondacks opposes S.03030 (Stec)/A.02816 (Jones). This legislation states that its purpose is to amend the constitution to convey [...]
