The May 4, 2021, decision by the New York Court of Appeals ruled that Class II Community Connector Snowmobile Trails violated Article 14, Section 1, of the New York Constitution. This ruling capped an 8-year [...]
2021 Annual Meeting will be held via Zoom. Bad weather has forced us to move this event online. 2021 Annual Meeting will be Held Virtually The annual meeting of the membership of Protect the Adirondacks [...]
Public Comments Needed Today to Stop the White Lake Granite Quarry The Adirondack Park Agency (APA) is taking public comments until July 29th for the new proposed granite quarry in White Lake, in the western [...]
The first 20 miles of Class II Community Connector Snowmobile Trails that were constructed by the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) and Adirondack Park Agency (APA) caused substantial damage to the Adirondack Forest Preserve. Class [...]
The Howard Zahniser Adirondack Award recognizes John Caffry’s and Claudia Braymer’s tremendous legal work and leadership over the last eight years to uphold and defend Article 14, Section 1, the forever clause, of the New [...]
A.7735a/S.7010c “AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to aquatic invasive species inspection stations and spread prevention efforts; and to amend chapter 330 of the laws of 2014, amending the environmental conservation [...]
The new parking reservation system to hike the trails on the Adirondack Mountain Reserve is easy to use. by Peter Bauer Three days before Memorial Day Weekend, a partly cloudy, but warm Tuesday, I decided [...]
Dreaming about the new public recreation trail from Lake Placid to Tupper Lake by Peter Bauer I recently walked the stretch of the Remsen to Lake Placid Railroad corridor from where it crosses the Old [...]
New York's Highest Court strikes down Cuomo Administration and Department of Environmental Conservation/Adirondack Park Agency plans to build 300 miles of controversial wide snowmobile trails in the Adirondack Forest Preserve The forever wild protection of the [...]
The Cuomo Administration’s plan to expand motorized use on the public Forest Preserve in the Adirondacks by building hundreds of miles of wide Class II snowmobile trails was ruled unconstitutional by the state’s highest court. [...]
