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
PROTECT and other groups start legal action to stop exploratory mining in the Jay Mountain Wilderness
Exploratory Drilling in Wilderness Would Violate Non-Constitutional Laws; Groups File [...]
Public comments needed now on draft Essex Chain Complex UMP to defend the Forest Preserve
The Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has released a draft [...]
New dataset for various quality of life measures places the Adirondack Park in a national context
Recent pieces posted by PROTECT Board member Phil Terrie and [...]
Protect the Adirondacks is disappointed by decision in its legal challenge to APA’s approval of ACR project
The New York Appellate Division, Third Department ruled to uphold [...]
APRAP Update misdiagnoses population issues in Adirondack Park
The Adirondack Park Regional Assessment Project (APRAP) recently came out [...]
Judith Enck, EPA Region 2 Administrator, to Speak about Climate Change at annual meeting of Protect the Adirondacks on July 6th at Great Camp Sagamore
Protect the Adirondacks is pleased to announce that Judith Enck, [...]