PROTECT has released a series of satellite photographs that show heavy tree cutting on state-held conservation easement lands in the northern Adirondack Park. These images show many clearcuts of just under 25 acres designed to [...]

Lake George needs action by Governor Cuomo and the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) to save the lake and local economy. While local government officials, environmental groups and businesses all around Lake George are calling [...]

The official classification of the The Nature Conservancy-Finch Paper lands is now front a center in public debate as the state has completed purchase of the 18,000-acre Essex Chain Lakes tract, the first of four [...]

Protect the Adirondacks salutes the outstanding stewardship of the Elk Lake-Clear Pond Preserve in recently donating a conservation easement on its entire 12,000-acre holding on the south side of the Dix Mountain Wilderness, located primarily [...]

In the waning days of his campaign for reelection in October 2012, President Barack Obama started talking about climate change again. He stopped talking about climate change pretty much after his first campaign was over [...]

Note: Protect the Adirondacks does not have a position on the reintroduction of cougars to the Adirondack Park, but we welcome the work of Dr. John Laundre, a wildlife biologist from the State University of [...]

PROTECT salutes the fine work of the Open Space Institute (OSI) to purchase and protect the historic Marion River Carry in the Town of Indian Lake, Hamilton County. OSI purchased over 250 acres on the [...]