Why Wildlife Corridors?
Because we've taken too much already. Movement is as essential to animals' lives as are sun, water, and family; yet we North Americans have deprived our fellow denizens of most of their living and traveling [...]
Why Do We Let Snowmobiles Drive on “Forever Wild” Forest Preserve?
Not only are 1,000 pound, $10,000, 100 mile per hour machines being allowed to drive on forest preserve lands which were to be kept wild forever; but now multi-ton tracked groomers will be driving on [...]
PROTECT had a big year in 2012
Protect the Adirondacks was fully engaged in a variety of issues across the Adirondack Park in 2012. PROTECT worked effectively to defend the Forest Preserve, advocate for open space protection, lead the way in water [...]
2012 will go down as the warmest year in U.S history
As we move through the end-of-the-year holidays season it's worth pausing to note that 2012 will go down as as the warmest year ever for the lower 48 states in the U.S. An unusually warm [...]
PROTECT opposes APA action to loosen the rules for clearcuts in the Adirondack Park
The Adirondack Park Agency (APA) has begun an official process to loosen rules to make clearcutting Adirondack forests much easier. The APA passed a draft new General Permit at its November Board meeting and issued [...]
New Developments in Lawsuit Challenging the APA & DEC over ACR Approval
Protect the Adirondacks and the Sierra Club put out a press release today about a new decision from the state Appellate Division to remand our discovery motion to State Supreme Court. You can read the [...]
PROTECT cheers the end of Maynard Baker’s latest lawsuit against Wilderness
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 Calls for a New 39,000-Acre Upper Hudson River Wilderness Area
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. [...]
Governor Cuomo’s Acquisition of 69,000 Acres for Addition to the Forest Preserve of Former Finch Lands will be Positive for Local Economy and Local Communities. PROTECT Rebuts False Claims of Job Loss Due to Land Purchases.
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 [...]
Will Hurricane Sandy be as Damaging as Tropical Storm Irene? Will Fall Storms of this Magnitude Become the New Normal for the Adirondack Park?
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 [...]