In 2013, Protect the Adirondacks started a lawsuit to challenge the constitutionality of the construction of 9-12 foot wide class II community connector snowmobile trails across the Adirondack Forest Preserve. For many reasons, PROTECT saw [...]
Appellate Division Justice stays further tree cutting on the Forest Preserve by the NYS DEC for the next ten days pending a hearing on a temporary injunction during an appeal by Protect the Adirondacks of [...]
For the past 25 days the chain saws of the Adirondack Park Agency (APA) and Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) have been silenced and over 7,500 trees on the forever wild Forest Preserve have received [...]
The Adirondack Park Agency's (APA) decision in March 2016 to weaken the Adirondack Park State Land Master Plan, which sets management policy for the "forever wild" Forest Preserve, capped five years of poor decisions and [...]
Court upholds restraining order barring the cutting of thousands of trees and grading on major new snowmobile trail between Newcomb and Minerva in Adirondack Park The Appellate Division, Third Department, of state Supreme Court issued [...]
Court stops cutting of thousands of trees on new trail between Newcomb and Minerva Court also stops all grading of the trail with heavy machinery Full Appellate Division, Third Department, to review the order next [...]
Dick Booth stepped down from his position as a member of the APA Board in June. He had served since 2007, when he was appointed by then Governor Eliot Spitzer. Booth had long been a [...]
The 2016 Legislative session wrapped up with a flurry of Adirondack Park activity. The State Senate conducted business over night on Friday June 17th and did not adjourn until 5:00 AM. In the end, a [...]
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 [...]