The Adirondack Park Agency (APA) voted on March 11, 2016 to weaken the Adirondack Park State Land Master Plan (APSLMP) by making changes in the 9,990-acre Essex Chain Lakes and Pine Lakes Primitive Area to [...]
At the Adirondack Park Agency (APA) meeting on Friday March 11, 2016, the APA acted to amend the Adirondack Park State Land Master Plan (APSLMP) to make a series of changes, the most controversial being [...]
APA vote today marks the first time in the last 40 years to weaken, not strengthen, protections for the Forest Preserve APA removed Essex Chain Lakes tract from Wilderness management by opening bicycle routes and [...]
The Adirondack Forest Preserve, owned by all New Yorkers and protected in the State Constitution as "forever wild" since 1895, is an internationally recognized treasure. It is managed by the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC), [...]
Protect the Adirondacks and Adirondack Wild: Friends of the Forest Preserve filed a lawsuit on January 11, 2016 challenging the State's approval of a new Unit Management Plan (UMP) for the Essex Chain Lakes Complex [...]
Protect the Adirondacks applauds Governor Cuomo for his plans to expand the NYS Environmental Protection Fund (EPF) to $300 million in his new state budget to be released later this month. This expansion marks the [...]
This is the third 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 [...]
This fall, Protect the Adirondacks conducted extensive field work on the new class II community connector snowmobile trail under construction from Newcomb to Minerva. This trail was approved by the Adirondack Park Agency (APA) in [...]
Protect the Adirondacks calls on state leaders to act boldly to expand Wilderness lands in the Adirondack Park. The protection of the former Finch, Pruyn and Company lands by the Nature Conservancy creates a major [...]
Protect the Adirondacks inventoried the newly constructed class II community connector snowmobile trail around Harris Lake. This trail was approved by the Adirondack Park Agency (APA) and Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) in July 2015 [...]