In 2014, the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) built a new class II community connector snowmobile trail called the Gilmantwon trail through a southern part of the Jessup River Wild Forest area. These types of [...]
The Adirondack Park is undergoing the greatest expansion of motorized recreational uses in the history of the "forever wild" Forest Preserve. With each new Unit Management Plan (UMP) or amendment, motorized uses are expanded primarily [...]
The Adirondack Park Agency is holding a public hearing on a proposed draft plan for new "community connector" snowmobile trails. The proposed new trail network will link the communities of Newcomb with North Hudson and [...]
The Essex Chain Lakes Complex contains newly purchased Forest Preserve around the Essex Chain Lakes, Hudson River, Pine Lake, and the Cedar River. This 12,000-acre area connects the Blue Mountain Wild Forest area with the [...]
The Adirondack Park Agency (APA) has committed to investigating potentially significant changes to the Adirondack Park State Land Master Plan (SLMP), which sets Forest Preserve management standards and guidelines. As part of the resolution passed [...]
It's slow work for the forest to take back a road. But once the forest gets started, its work is relentless. The State of New York has owned the Burn Road on the north side [...]
Some major changes are afoot for our "Forever Wild" Adirondack Forest Preserve. Last fall, the Adirondack Park Agency (APA) held a series of "listening sessions" regarding possible amendments to the Adirondack Park State Land Master [...]
Article XIV, Section 1, of the New York State Constitution states: "The lands of the state, now owned or hereafter acquired, constituting the forest preserve as now fixed by law, shall be forever kept as [...]
In their recent Letter to the Editor, Philadelphia developer Michael Foxman and his partner Thomas Lawson, representatives of Adirondack Club & Resort (ACR) in Tupper Lake, impugned the "high motives" of Protect the Adirondacks in [...]