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Register for April 16th Adirondack Lake Assessment Program (ALAP) Zoom Meeting

Protect the Adirondacks and the Adirondack Watershed Institute will be holding a Zoom informational meeting about the upcoming 2024 ALAP water quality monitoring season. ALAP monitors and participating sponsoring organizations and lake associations can register [...]

2024-03-18T12:46:03-04:00March 18, 2024|

Legislators and Advocates Call for Passage of New Wolf Protection Bill

New Bill Introduced to Protect Wolves in New York Senator Hoylman-Sigal and Assembly Member Carroll introduced legislation to require DEC to collect and analyze data about large canids in New York New legislation (S.7927A/A.08295A), sponsored [...]

2024-03-28T15:31:04-04:00March 28, 2024|

New York needs stronger laws to regulate septic systems

Across New York and in the Adirondack Park, failing and improperly sited, designed, or installed onsite wastewater treatments systems (OWTSs), commonly referred to as septic systems, are a leading cause of water pollution that harms [...]

2024-03-22T11:52:55-04:00March 22, 2024|

Protect the Adirondacks applauds one house budgets for funding critical Adirondack programs

Budgets Released by the Legislature Restore Funding for Adirondack Park Initiatives The Senate and Assembly have proposed budgets that will restore funding for critical programs in the Adirondack Park, adds potential funding for road salt [...]

2024-03-19T06:14:22-04:00March 13, 2024|

Adirondack Park Lobby Day on February 26, 2024 was a big success!

Thank you to the members and supporters of PROTECT and the 16 other Adirondack environmental organizations who filled the halls of the Capitol and the Legislative Office Building on February 26, 2024!  Our loud and [...]

2024-02-29T17:21:21-05:00February 28, 2024|

PROTECT calls on Governor Kathy Hochul to conduct a nationwide search for new Commissioner of the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation

The next DEC Commissioner should have experience managing a major environmental regulatory and land management agency and a history of upholding the rule of law. North Creek, NY. With the news that Basil Seggos, the [...]

2024-02-27T10:25:30-05:00February 27, 2024|

PROTECT cheers new state conservation easements for Follensby Pond lands

The Nature Conservancy announced that it has worked out two new conservation easements with the State of New York to protect for all time the 14,645-acre Follensby Pond tract. These easements will protect the world [...]

2024-02-18T07:36:28-05:00February 17, 2024|

PROTECT argues White Lake Appeal against Adirondack Park Agency

On Monday January 8, 2024, PROTECT Conservation Director and Counsel Christopher Amato argued an appeal of a trial court’s approval of the permitting by the Adirondack Park Agency (APA) of a new mining operation in [...]

2024-02-17T07:40:50-05:00February 15, 2024|
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