Among Adirondack Park leaders, blaming the Park, the Forest Preserve, environmental protections, and environmental groups, is fashionable. Population trends are often cited, along with things like school district trends, to substantiate this narrative. Hardly ever [...]
Adirondack Park management and policymaking would benefit enormously from openness and transparency In its August 12, 2021 edition the Sun Community News ran the editorial below. The embers of a court case disallowing Class II [...]
The US Census released its first cut at the 2020 decennial census last week. This data is limited, delivered for the purpose of redistricting for statewide and federal elected representatives. Much more detailed data will be [...]
12 Ways That Indian Lake Town Supervisor Brian Wells Gets The Historic Forever Wild Decision All Wrong In an op-ed run in the Albany Times Union on August 1, 2021, and in the Adirondack Almanack, [...]
GOVERNOR CUOMO ANNOUNCES $4.3 MILLION ACQUISITION OF 8,000 ACRES TO PROTECT GRASS RIVER AND WORKING FORESTS IN ST. LAWRENCE COUNTY Newly Acquired 947-Acre Forest Preserve Parcel and 7,047-Acre Conservation Easement Will Permanently Protect Water Quality, [...]
The May 4, 2021, decision by the New York Court of Appeals ruled that Class II Community Connector Snowmobile Trails violated Article 14, Section 1, of the New York Constitution. This ruling capped an 8-year [...]
2021 Annual Meeting will be held via Zoom. Bad weather has forced us to move this event online. 2021 Annual Meeting will be Held Virtually The annual meeting of the membership of Protect the Adirondacks [...]
Public Comments Needed Today to Stop the White Lake Granite Quarry The Adirondack Park Agency (APA) is taking public comments until July 29th for the new proposed granite quarry in White Lake, in the western [...]
The first 20 miles of Class II Community Connector Snowmobile Trails that were constructed by the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) and Adirondack Park Agency (APA) caused substantial damage to the Adirondack Forest Preserve. Class [...]
The Howard Zahniser Adirondack Award recognizes John Caffry’s and Claudia Braymer’s tremendous legal work and leadership over the last eight years to uphold and defend Article 14, Section 1, the forever clause, of the New [...]
