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 [...]
PROTECT the Adirondacks! has hired Peter Bauer as its new Executive Director. Starting full-time after Labor Day, Bauer will coordinate PROTECT's citizen advocacy activities and provide leadership to monitor public agencies, conduct research, and manage [...]
Please don't buy, transplant or allow this nasty plant to invade our forests: Japanese barberry (called "red barberry" in nurseries) used to behave itself around here, but as is the case with many invasive plants [...]
The Adirondack Park, larger than Connecticut and the largest park in the lower 48 states, is a unique mix of public (52%) and private (48%) ownership. The private forest lands are fundamental to the landscape [...]
How important a role has ice played in the Adirondacks? That is the question I set out to discover as I traveled the Adirondack Park three years prior to publishing my book on that subject, [...]
PROTECT legal action challenges the approval by the Adirondack Park Agency of the Adirondack Club & Resort project in Tupper Lake March 2012: PROTECT and the Sierra Club file lawsuit against the APA to challenge [...]
PROTECT legal action challenges the approval by the Adirondack Park Agency of the Adirondack Club & Resort project in Tupper Lake March 2012: PROTECT and the Sierra Club file lawsuit against the APA to challenge [...]
