The Adirondack Park Agency (APA) has committed to investigating potentially significant changes to the Adirondack Park State Land Master Plan (SLMP), which sets Forest Preserve management standards and guidelines. As part of the resolution passed [...]
It's slow work for the forest to take back a road. But once the forest gets started, its work is relentless. The State of New York has owned the Burn Road on the north side [...]
Some major changes are afoot for our "Forever Wild" Adirondack Forest Preserve. Last fall, the Adirondack Park Agency (APA) held a series of "listening sessions" regarding possible amendments to the Adirondack Park State Land Master [...]
Article XIV, Section 1, of the New York State Constitution states: "The lands of the state, now owned or hereafter acquired, constituting the forest preserve as now fixed by law, shall be forever kept as [...]
In their recent Letter to the Editor, Philadelphia developer Michael Foxman and his partner Thomas Lawson, representatives of Adirondack Club & Resort (ACR) in Tupper Lake, impugned the "high motives" of Protect the Adirondacks in [...]
Protect the Adirondacks cheers the appointment of Steve Englebright (D-Setauket) as the new chairman of the Assembly Committee on Environmental Conservation. Assemblyman Englebright has served in the State Assembly since 1983, following service in the [...]
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has released his new 2014-15 state budget and it includes a boost in environmental spending for the Environmental Protection Fund (EPF). Governor Cuomo has proposed to increase the Environmental Protection [...]
Protect the Adirondacks published an op-ed in the Plattsburgh Press Republican titled "Let Freedom Ring in Essex County." This op-ed called on the Board of Supervisors to rescind its support for the vicious editorial published [...]
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