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 [...]
Jim LaValley's op-ed piece in the July-August 2012 issue of the Adirondack Explorer claims that PROTECT'S lawsuit challenging the Adirondack Park Agency's (APA) permitting of the Adirondack Club and Resort (ACR) project is frivolous. Mr. [...]
PRESS ADVISORY July 18, 2012 Protect the Adirondacks! and the Sierra Club today filed a Reply in their lawsuit against the Adirondack Park Agency, the Department of Environmental Conservation and the developer challenging the APA's [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Tuesday, June 12, 2012 Contact: Neil Woodworth, (518) 449-3870 or 669-0128; or John Caffry, (518) 792-1582 ALBANY, N.Y. – The state Department of Environmental Conservation and the Adirondack Park Agency have dropped their [...]
In August 2011, Supreme Court Justice Michael C. Lynch of Albany County, in a lawsuit brought by the Adirondack Mountain Club (ADK) and Protect the Adirondacks! (PROTECT), ruled that the lake is Wilderness and the [...]
Adirondack Lake Assessment Program (ALAP) The Adirondack Watershed Institute (AWI) of Paul Smith's College in partnership with Protect the Adirondacks! announces the first of our summer lecture series. What is a typical Adirondack Lake and [...]
The forests of the Adirondacks, while often wonderfully recovered from clear-cutting and burning 100 years ago, are "spring chickens" compared to my favorite ecological retreats—peat bogs. When the glacier melted back 10,000 years ago, huge [...]
