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
Governor Cuomo finalizes state purchase of OK Slips Falls, Blue Ledges and Hudson River Gorge for the Forest Preserve
From the Governor's press office with pictures by Protect the [...]
PROTECT files formal papers in lawsuit challenging APA and DEC management of road-like snowmobile trails on the Forest Preserve
Last week, Protect the Adirondacks's attorneys at Caffry and Flower [...]
A conversation about the Bicknell’s thrush and the Endangered Species Act with the Center for Biological Diversity
This month the Center for Biological Diversity notified the US [...]
Sometimes we all need a laugh: The April 1st Chronicle writes about PROTECT using drones in the skies over the Adirondack Park
Gotta love it. Each year The Chronicle, published in Glens [...]
New York State wraps up a new state budget with an increase in environmental spending
The Governor and state Legislators wrapped up the 2013-14 state [...]
Center for Biological Diversity files its intent to sue the US Fish & Wildlife Service over its failure to protect the Bicknell’s thrush in the northeast
The Center for Biological Diversity filed a "formal notice [...]