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.
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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.
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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 begins major new lawsuit challenging the state’s construction of “class II community connector” snowmobile trail network based on wide, road-like trails and grooming with large tracked groomers GalleryPROTECT begins major new lawsuit challenging the state’s construction of “class II community connector” snowmobile trail network based on wide, road-like trails and grooming with large tracked groomers
PROTECT begins major new lawsuit challenging the state’s construction of “class II community connector” snowmobile trail network based on wide, road-like trails and grooming with large tracked groomers
Protect the Adirondacks has started a new lawsuit against the [...]
Tens of thousands rally in Washington DC and around the U.S. calling for action to meet the challenges of global climate change
Over 40,000 braved the cold winds and freezing temperatures in [...]
PROTECT cheers APA for tabling controversial General Permit to loosen clearcutting rules
Protect the Adirondacks heralds the decision by the Adirondack Park [...]
PROTECT and a dozen other groups urge Governor Cuomo and APA to delay or deny General Permit to relax rules for clearcutting
The APA is set to vote on a new General [...]
APA’s action to loosen rules for clearcutting will result in large-scale clearcuts of already heavily cut industrial forestlands
Protect the Adirondacks opposes plans by the Adirondack Park Agency [...]
PROTECT releases satellite photographs showing heavy cutting of forests on state conservation easement lands in the Adirondack Park that raise many questions about long-term sustainable forestry management and the wisdom of proposed new APA rules to expand clearcutting
PROTECT has released a series of satellite photographs that show [...]