Evelyn Greene, long-time Adirondack Park environmental advocate and naturalist, and a founding Director of Protect the Adirondacks, passed away on May 27, 2025. The first thing to say about Evelyn is that everybody loved Evelyn. [...]
A broad range of environmental and conservation groups have come together in support of a proposed bill providing tax incentives to conserve wild forest lands on private property. Environmental and conservation groups have come together [...]
The New York State Budget for Fiscal Year 2025-2026 marks a major investment in the Adirondack Park, funding numerous critical needs and institutions that will protect the environment and meet challenges around diversity and public [...]
For years, Protect the Adirondacks has urged the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) and the Adirondack Park Agency (APA) to conduct a carrying capacity study for the Saranac Chain of Lakes. This [...]
Come to Albany on May 6th for Wolf Lobby Day to Help Protect Wolves in New York State PROTECT continues to advocate for a new wolf bill that would collect data about, and provide further [...]
Protect the Adirondacks supports a proposed Article 14 Constitutional Amendment for the Mount Van Hoevenberg Olympic Sports Complex outside Lake Placid. At the Mt. Van Hoevenberg complex, the Olympic Regional Development Authority (ORDA) currently manages [...]
The Senate and Assembly have each proposed one-house budgets that provide funding for critical programs in the Adirondack Park! The Executive Budget proposed by Governor Kathy Hochul on January 21, 2025 left a lot to [...]
Michael Wilson was born in 1945 in Santa Monica, California, and passed away at the end of February, 2025 in Glenwood, Maryland. Michael and his family spent decades in the Adirondack Park immersed in the [...]
PROTECT supports proposed bill providing tax incentives to conserve wild forest lands on private property. A new proposed bill would provide real property tax incentives to landowners who place permanent protective easements on their forested [...]
Thank you to the members and supporters of PROTECT and 26 other Adirondack organizations for standing up for the Adirondacks! We had over 120 people join together in Albany to show State Legislators that New [...]
