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PROTECT responds to ill conceived resolution by the Essex County Board of Supervisors in support of curbs on free speech and free expression
When Protect the Adirondacks was viciously and unjustly attacked by Denton Publications, we talked to the newspaper and pointed out many factual errors and lapses of ethical standards in its editorial. The newspaper relented and [...]
PROTECT and other groups oppose 1,100-acre subdivision around Woodworth Lake set for approval by the Adirondack Park Agency
Protect the Adirondacks and other groups oppose the a subdivision on 1,100 acres around Woodworth Lake in the southern Adirondacks in the towns of Bleecker and Johnstown. This is a controversial issue because the Adirondack [...]
Denton Publications renounces its controversial editorial attacking Protect the Adirondacks
After two weeks of steady criticism for its inaccurate, poorly researched and inflammatory editorial attacking Protect the Adirondacks where it called for silencing and blacklisting of our advocacy work, Denton Publications published an apology and announced [...]
Thoughts and comments on the Great South Woods community development and Forest Preserve and conservation easement access planning project
An ambitious new project called the Great South Woods is underway that looks broadly at community development and state lands planning across almost all of the southern half of the Adirondack Park. This project is [...]
PROTECT rejects Denton Publications’ inflammatory efforts to censor and suppress our advocacy work to conserve the Adirondack Park
Denton Publications, in Elizabethtown, recently published a scathing and irresponsible editorial attacking Protect the Adirondacks and calling for us to be censored and suppressed. It was a truly stunning recommendation by a newspaper, which we [...]
NYS Court of Appeals denies PROTECT’s Motion for Leave to Appeal in lawsuit challenging APA approval of 6,000-acre subdivision
December 17, 2014 Statement from Protect the Adirondacks and the Sierra Club on Denial of Motion for Leave to Appeal by the NYS Court of Appeals to challenge the Appellate Division, Third Department decision to [...]
New York publishes draft Aquatic Invasive Species Management Plan
Protect the Adirondacks congratulates the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) for promulgating a draft Aquatic Invasive Species Management Plan. See background information here from the DEC. PROTECT was involved in drafting the AIS plan for [...]
APA holds public hearing on revision of the Adirondack Park State Land Master Plan
Public comments needed on revision of the Adirondack Park State Land Master Plan The Adirondack Park Agency (APA) is conducting a public hearing to gather input and ideas from stakeholders about policy revisions to the [...]
Woodworth Lake Subdivision Fragments Adirondack Forests and Backcountry
Just inside the Blue Line in the southern Adirondacks in the Towns of Bleecker and Johnstown, a new 1,118-acre, 26-lot subdivision on lands zoned Resource Management is poised for approval by the Adirondack Park Agency [...]