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
Papers filed in major Forever Wild lawsuit that will shape the future of the Forest Preserve
In 2013, Protect the Adirondacks started a lawsuit to challenge [...]
Appellate Court Again Stops Tree Cutting by the Department of Environmental Conservation on the “forever wild” Forest Preserve
Appellate Division Justice stays further tree cutting on the Forest [...]
For 25 days PROTECT’s legal actions have stopped the State of New York from cutting trees on the forever wild Forest Preserve
For the past 25 days the chain saws of the [...]
Adirondack Park Agency has made a series of poor decisions on Forest Preserve management
The Adirondack Park Agency's (APA) decision in March 2016 to [...]
In PROTECT’s lawsuit to defend “forever wild” the Appellate Court upholds Temporary Restraining Order against State’s tree cutting on the Forest Preserve
Court upholds restraining order barring the cutting of thousands of [...]
PROTECT Wins Temporary Restraining Order Against State’s Tree Cutting and Grading On New Community Connector Snowmobile Trails on the Forest Preserve
Court stops cutting of thousands of trees on new trail [...]