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
The Adirondack Park Agency should manage reform of the State Land Master Plan
The Common Ground Alliance (CGA) recently met in Long Lake. [...]
Cougar Watch Update
The Cougar Watch project started as effort to gather information [...]
PROTECT cheers DEC decision to withdraw flawed draft Essex Chain Lakes UMP
Protect the Adirondacks applauds the decision announced today by the [...]
PROTECT files motion for permission to appeal the Appellate Court decision on lawsuit challenging the APA’s approval of the Adirondack Club & Resort project
Statement from Protect the Adirondacks and the Sierra Club on [...]
Public comments needed on historic draft EPA climate change rules
Public Comments Needed by December 2, 2014 to Support Historic [...]
Public comments needed on draft UMP amendments to Forest Preserve areas in the central Adirondacks
The Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has released a draft [...]