Help make Weller Pond motorless as part of the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation public hearing on the Saranac Lake Wild Forest Area UMP. Make a public comment for a motorless Weller Pond. Comments will [...]
At our annual meeting in 1991, one of the forerunners of Protect the Adirondacks, the Residents' Committee to Protect the Adirondacks (RCPA), led Yngvar Isachsen, the prominent NYS Museum geologist, to a "tafone"--one of the [...]
Protect the Adirondacks supports a new Constitutional Amendment for Article XIV, the "forever wild" provision of the NYS Constitution, introduced by the State Assembly Conservation Committee Chairman Steve Englebright. This proposed amendment authorizes location of [...]
Protect the Adirondacks supports a new Constitutional Amendment for Article XIV, Section 1, the "forever wild" provision of the NYS Constitution, introduced by State Senator Elizabeth Little, to authorize the sale of 92 acres of [...]
The purchase of the Boreas Ponds tract is a major milestone in the history of the Adirondack Forest Preserve, a stellar accomplishment by the Adirondack Chapter of the Nature Conservancy and a feather in the [...]
We're moving into an era of one-agency rule in the Adirondack Park and that should be very troubling to everyone. For nearly 45 years, management of the public Forest Preserve has been based on checks [...]
An aerial of the Boreas Ponds with the High Peaks in the background. This is the centerpiece of New York's newest tract of Forest Preserve. Protect the Adirondacks cheers the state's acquisition [...]
State approves $300 million EPF in state budget, significant boost to funding for land protection, invasive species control and state land stewardship Protect the Adirondacks applauds the New York State budget being passed in Albany. [...]
The Adirondack Park Agency (APA) voted on March 11, 2016 to weaken the Adirondack Park State Land Master Plan (APSLMP) by making changes in the 9,990-acre Essex Chain Lakes and Pine Lakes Primitive Area to [...]
At the Adirondack Park Agency (APA) meeting on Friday March 11, 2016, the APA acted to amend the Adirondack Park State Land Master Plan (APSLMP) to make a series of changes, the most controversial being [...]