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 urge APA to be deliberative and methodical in classification of Essex Chain Lakes and Hudson River Forest Preserve areas
On August 29, 2013 Protect the Adirondacks, along with the [...]
Beach Road porous pavement project in Lake George is an excellent model for major stormwater pollution control
One of the biggest experiments in the northeast U.S. in [...]
PROTECT and eight other groups call for Wilderness for former Finch lands
Protect the Adirondacks Adirondack Mountain Club Adirondack Council Adirondack Wild: [...]
Public comments are overwhelmingly pro-Wilderness in APA land classification hearings
Almost 5,000 pages of written public comments, most supporting Wilderness [...]
PROTECT responds to state motion in snowmobile trail construction and management lawsuit
Attorneys for Protect the Adirondacks submitted a response to the [...]
Controversial new snowmobile trail still a mess long after the snow has melted
At the current public hearings by the Adirondack Park Agency [...]