Protect the Adirondacks has been named to a new working group to help state agencies reform Forest Preserve trails management The Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has organized a working group to assist the department [...]
Protect the Adirondacks has a number of concerns about the proposed new project submitted to the Adirondack Park Agency (APA) in the Town of Jay in Essex County by Eric Stackman, a land developer from Miami, [...]
The Paul Smith’s College Adirondack Watershed Institute (AWI) recently announced that it has been awarded a grant from the Lake Champlain Basin Program to expand the Adirondack Lake Assessment Program (ALAP) and further safeguard waterbodies [...]
A very strange thing happened this fall in the High Peaks Wilderness Area. The Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) worked for weeks in 2021 with heavy machinery to rebuild an old logging road in the [...]
The NYS Department of Environmental Conservation and Adirondack Park Agency need to comply with the forever wild decision and close illegal trails and restore damaged areas In a landmark decision, the New York Court of [...]
Over the past year, PROTECT worked to research and publish 100 online hiking trail guides for great places to visit outside of the High Peaks Wilderness. These guides have grown very popular and in 2022 [...]
Recently, we saw news that Governor Kathy Hochul has instructed state agencies to develop and submit plans for greater transparency. As we wrote in a related piece, this is good news and welcome news. Protect [...]
Last week, we saw news that Governor Kathy Hochul instructed state agencies to develop and submit plans for greater transparency. This is good news and welcome news. Over the past two decades, state agencies have restricted [...]
Vote on November 2, 2021 for Ballot Proposal 2 for the Constitutional Amendment for the right to clean air, clean water, and a healthful environment The purpose of Proposal 2 is to protect public health [...]
Protect the Adirondacks recently visited the proposed multi-use trail in the Sundown Wild Forest in the Catskill Park and a newly recconstructed adjoining trail in the Vernooy Kill State Forest outside the Park. This trail [...]
