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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Take the Forest Preserve Hiker Survey. Share your experience hiking in the Adirondack Forest Preserve.
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.
Our Annual Meeting will be held July 11, 2026.
The link for more information is available here.
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
Governor Cuomo should sign into law legislation to ban the transport of harmful aquatic invasive species across New York
Legislation passed in June that bans the transport of aquatic [...]
Long identified as a non-conforming use in the Pharaoh Lake Wilderness, the Crane Pond Road is a poorly managed mess
There have been steady reports through the summer of 2014 [...]
Field notes on the proposed West Stony Creek Wilderness Area
Trail work has started on the re-route of the Northville [...]
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 [...]