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.
Get involved in the development of New York’s Climate Change Plan. Public hearings are happening across New York, submit your public comment today.
Click here for more information about how to attend a hearing or make a public comment.
Protect the Adirondacks wins historic lawsuit that upholds forever wild protections for the Forest Preserve in the State Constitution.
Click here to read about this landmark legal victory.
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
Our online hiking trails guide is very popular
Over the past year, PROTECT worked to research and publish [...]
The Adirondack Park Agency Must Reform and Embrace Transparency
Recently, we saw news that Governor Kathy Hochul has instructed [...]
The Department of Environmental Conservation Should Embrace Transparency
Last week, we saw news that Governor Kathy Hochul instructed [...]
Vote for Ballot Proposal 2 for the Constitutional Amendment for the right to clean air, clean water, and a healthful environment
Vote on November 2, 2021 for Ballot Proposal 2 for [...]
New NYSDEC wide “multi-use” trail in the Catskill Forest Preserve raises serious constitutional issues
Protect the Adirondacks recently visited the proposed multi-use trail in [...]
Majority of school districts across New York State see declining enrollments 2010-2020
It’s back to school time in the Adirondacks and New [...]