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.
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Vote YES on Proposal One on NYS Ballot on Election Day, November 4, 2025.
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
State agencies hammer the Forest Preserve as they build a new road-like snowmobile trail from Newcomb to Minerva
This fall, Protect the Adirondacks conducted extensive field work on [...]
PROTECT calls for classification of 36,500 acres of new Wilderness lands in the Forest Preserve to expand the High Peaks Wilderness area and create a new West Stony Creek Wilderness area GalleryPROTECT calls for classification of 36,500 acres of new Wilderness lands in the Forest Preserve to expand the High Peaks Wilderness area and create a new West Stony Creek Wilderness area
PROTECT calls for classification of 36,500 acres of new Wilderness lands in the Forest Preserve to expand the High Peaks Wilderness area and create a new West Stony Creek Wilderness area
Protect the Adirondacks calls on state leaders to act boldly [...]
PROTECT calls for APA investigation of numerous Forest Preserve violations during construction of new Harris Lake snowmobile trail
Protect the Adirondacks inventoried the newly constructed class II community [...]
Town of Ohio rescinds ATV law after PROTECT filed lawsuit
Town of Ohio ATV Law had opened dozens of roads [...]
Part 2 of Reflections on the Essex Chain Lakes Unit Management Plan: Essex Chain Plan Violates NYS Snowmobile Policies
This is the second of three "reflections" on the recent [...]
APA approves widely illegal Unit Management Plan for the Essex Chain Lakes Complex
New Unit Management Plan violates state snowmobile trail policies and [...]