Good news is out today for those that appreciate the Wilderness parts of the Forest Preserve in the Adirondack Park and who think that there should be places where motors of all kinds are not [...]
Protect the Adirondacks today put out a press release calling for the creation of a new 39,000-acre Upper Hudson River Wilderness Area. See the full press release and a map of the new Wilderness Area. [...]
The preservation of wild open spaces – forests, lakes, streams, rivers, wetlands – is one of the best things that our civilization does. Wildlands serve us in many ways. They protect our water and air [...]
The impacts of Tropical Storm Irene are still plainly evident across large swaths of the eastern Adirondack Park. Highly altered and hardened stream channels, new bridges and stretches of highway, new concrete walls along stream [...]
Update: This article was originally posted on October 23rd based on a field visit to the site on October 18, 2012. On November 12th the site was visited again to view new work. New pictures [...]
In August, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced his intention to purchase 69,000 acres of former Finch, Pruyn & Company lands from the Nature Conservancy for addition to the "forever wild" Forest Preserve. PROTECT heartily congratulates the [...]
The recent guest commentary ("Mad as Hell" October 1, 2012) in the Adirondack Daily Enterprise by a Tupper Lake businessman and booster of the Adirondack Club & Resort (ACR) project in Tupper Lake was something [...]
Boosters of the ACR project in Tupper Lake have now moved from insulting the integrity of the PROTECT lawsuit against the Adirondack Park Agency (APA) over its approval of the 6,000-acre Adirondack Club & Resort [...]
Wednesday morning September 26th the ARISE group in Tupper Lake, headed by local real estate developer Jim LaValley, issued a press release announcing that the Big Tupper Ski Area will not open this winter and [...]
by Kenneth A. Strike Abstract Below I discuss both the process and the results of the Adirondack Futures Project. I suggest that the process has promoted a well reasoned discussion about the future of the [...]
