Protect the Adirondacks
Protect the Adirondacks! Inc. is a non-profit, grassroots membership organization dedicated to the protection and stewardship of the public and private lands of the Adirondack Park, and to building the health and diversity of its natural and human communities for the benefit of current and future generations.
Help save the 36,000-acre Whitney Park in the central Adirondacks. Send an email to Governor Hochul today.
Click here for more information and see how you can submit a public comment today.
Help Protect the Adirondacks raise $75,000 in a challenge match in our 2025 year-end membership drive. All donations and contributions will be matched dollar-for-dollar.
Sign Up as a Member
Become a member of Protect the Adirondacks and add your voice to the defense of the public Forest Preserve, protection of the great forests and waters of the Adirondacks, and help campaign for strengthening protections and improving the management of the six-million-acre Adirondack Park.
The link below will bring you to our secure page to sign up today as a new member.
Become an e-Activist
When you are an E-Activist, we will provide you with information on opportunities to take immediate action online, and also become involved, on an ongoing basis.
The link below will bring you to a quick and easy online form.
Conservation and Advocacy
Vote Yes on Proposal 1 for the Clean Air, Clean Water, Green Jobs Environmental Bond Act
Vote Yes on Tuesday November 8, 2022 and support the [...]
PROTECT honors Elizabeth Thorndike and Peter S. Paine, Jr. with the Howard Zahniser Adirondack Award in 2022
Protect the Adirondacks was pleased to honor Elizabeth Thorndike and [...]
Important NYSDEC Forest Preserve Management Reforms are Underway, Part 2
The Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) recently issued a Request [...]
Important NYSDEC Forest Preserve Management Reforms are Underway, Part 1
2022 may end up as the year where some of [...]
After independent DNA studies, NYSDEC reverses course and says Cooperstown wolf was a wolf
On September 21, 2022, after a second independent DNA study [...]
PROTECT joins with 37 other groups to call on NYSDEC to protect wolves in New York State
The plot thickens around the killing of an 85-pound wolf near [...]