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
Protect the Adirondacks names Chris Amato as Conservation Director and Counsel
Chris Amato brings long career as attorney in service with [...]
Barton Mines seeks major expansion of its mountaintop mine on the edge of the Siamese Ponds Wilderness Area
The only mountaintop open pit pine in the Adirondacks is [...]
Great day at the 2022 Annual Members Meeting in Lake Placid
The 2022 annual meeting of Protect the Adirondacks was held [...]
Public comments needed to stop Adirondack Park Agency from expanding the mileage of roads on the Forest Preserve
We need your help to write a public comment to [...]
Annual Meeting on July 16, 2022 at John Brown Farm in Lake Placid
Join with the Board of Directors and Staff of Protect [...]
The meaning of the 2021 New York Constitution Article 14 “forever wild” decision
Recent pieces in the Adirondack Explorer (see here and here) have [...]