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.
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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
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 [...]
Protect the Adirondacks applauds Inflation Reduction Act, landmark climate change legislation
President Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law [...]
DNA analysis confirms that a gray wolf was killed in central New York
In December 2021, a hunter outside of Cooperstown, New York, [...]
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 [...]