A Trapper’s Last Trap
Backwoods Journal 1962 From "On Being Humble" …Now, the trapping of wild animals is a cruel business even under the best of conditions, and the best of conditions do not usually prevail (at least, as [...]
Living with Solar
I have been living in a solar powered and solar heated home for the past 17 years. If I count the previous 5 – 7 years when I lived in remote non-electrified cabins, then I'm [...]
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 three ton tracked groomers will be driving [...]
How to Run a Snowshoe Social Club
The club really started years ago when Dick Carlson, at that time the manager of Garnet Hill Ski Center, noticed senior citizens exercising by walking along the shoulder of the road. He thought they should [...]
PROTECT Says: In Approving Resort Project, APA Abdicates Its Duty to Uphold the Law
RAY BROOK, NY—The decision by the Adirondack Park Agency (APA) to approve the massive Adirondack Club and Resort (ACR) project is an abdication of the Agency's legal responsibility to uphold state law, according to one [...]
Times Union Op-ed- ACR Decision Expected This Week
The decision expected this week by the Adirondack Park Agency on the huge Adirondack Club and Resort project in Tupper Lake would appear to be a choice between spurring economic growth and protecting the environment. [...]
Tahawus Rail Spur: Our Side
By CHARLES C. MORRISON Protect the Adirondacks! is as happy as everyone else about the success of the Saratoga and North Creek Railway between Saratoga Springs and North Creek. We wish SNCR well there. SNCR's [...]
Snyder Bequest Left for Protect the Adirondacks!
A couple who lived for 30 years near Schroon Lake, NY, have left a generous bequest to the environmental group Protect the Adirondacks! to further their lifetime wish for preservation of wild places in the [...]
Forest Finance 2012: Financial Facts for Forest Owners
January 14th, Queensbury, NY Protect the Adirondacks!, Cornell Cooperative Extension, The New York Forest Owners Association and The New York Tree Farm System are presenting - Forest Finance 2012: Financial Facts for Forest Owners, January [...]
Tahawus Railroad Spur
Click here to view Protect's filing with the federal Surface Transportation Board.