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
PROTECT responds to ill conceived resolution by the Essex County Board of Supervisors in support of curbs on free speech and free expression
When Protect the Adirondacks was viciously and unjustly attacked by [...]
PROTECT and other groups oppose 1,100-acre subdivision around Woodworth Lake set for approval by the Adirondack Park Agency
Protect the Adirondacks and other groups oppose the a subdivision [...]
Denton Publications renounces its controversial editorial attacking Protect the Adirondacks
After two weeks of steady criticism for its inaccurate, poorly [...]
Thoughts and comments on the Great South Woods community development and Forest Preserve and conservation easement access planning project
An ambitious new project called the Great South Woods is [...]
PROTECT rejects Denton Publications’ inflammatory efforts to censor and suppress our advocacy work to conserve the Adirondack Park
Denton Publications, in Elizabethtown, recently published a scathing and irresponsible [...]
NYS Court of Appeals denies PROTECT’s Motion for Leave to Appeal in lawsuit challenging APA approval of 6,000-acre subdivision
December 17, 2014 Statement from Protect the Adirondacks and the [...]