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 honors John Caffry and Claudia Braymer with the Howard Zahniser Adirondack Award 2021
The Howard Zahniser Adirondack Award recognizes John Caffry’s and Claudia [...]
PROTECT supports legislation to make Aquatic Invasive Species Transport Law permanent and strengthen programs for spread prevention
A.7735a/S.7010c “AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in [...]
A review of the new Adirondack Mountain Reserve parking reservation system
The new parking reservation system to hike the trails on [...]
The new multi-use public recreation trail construction begins from Lake Placid to Tupper Lake
Dreaming about the new public recreation trail from Lake Placid [...]
Time for NYS Department of Environmental Conservation, Adirondack Park Agency, and Cuomo Administration to Get on the Right Side of Forever Wild
New York's Highest Court strikes down Cuomo Administration and Department [...]
Victory: New York’s Highest Court Rules in Favor of Protect the Adirondacks, Finds Cuomo Administration Violated Forever Wild Clause of State Constitution GalleryVictory: New York’s Highest Court Rules in Favor of Protect the Adirondacks, Finds Cuomo Administration Violated Forever Wild Clause of State Constitution
Victory: New York’s Highest Court Rules in Favor of Protect the Adirondacks, Finds Cuomo Administration Violated Forever Wild Clause of State Constitution
The Cuomo Administration’s plan to expand motorized use on the [...]