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
APA classification proposal for Essex Chain Lakes and Hudson River brings good and bad news for the Forest Preserve
The Adirondack Park Agency (APA) has released its preferred alternative [...]
PROTECT calls upon APA to release legal and policy document about Forest Preserve classification for the Essex Chain Lakes and Hudson River tracts
Protect the Adirondacks calls upon the Adirondack Park Agency (APA) [...]
Over 1 Million New Yorkers made a Stand for Forever Wild and Voted No on Proposition 5
Protect the Adirondacks is heartened by the over million New [...]
Today is Election Day. Vote No on Proposition 5.
Protect the Adirondacks is deeply grateful for all the support [...]
PROTECT files major submissions in lawsuit challenging APA-DEC snowmobile trail construction and management
Protect the Adirondacks has filed a major part of our [...]
Adirondack Club & Resort project received an “approval” on conditions in January 2012, but zero “permits” have been issued due to developer’s failure to complete required plans and studies
No state permits have been issued to date Two recent [...]