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 finds possible Wetlands Act and stormwater pollution violations along new DEC and APA “showcase” community connector class II snowmobile trail through the Moose River Plains
On a recent field visit to the new community connector [...]
PROTECT outlines its vision for official classification of 69,000 acres of new Forest Preserve lands
The official classification of the The Nature Conservancy-Finch Paper lands [...]
High praise for the Elk Lake-Clear Pond Preserve in moving boldly to donate a 12,000-acre conservation easement and 1,600 acres of new Forest Preserve lands
Protect the Adirondacks salutes the outstanding stewardship of the Elk [...]
President Obama and Governor Cuomo both talk seriously about climate change in their major speeches
In the waning days of his campaign for reelection in [...]
A brave new look at the viability of the Adirondack Park to support a population of several hundred cougars
Note: Protect the Adirondacks does not have a position on [...]
Hats Off to Open Space Institute for Saving the Marion River Carry
PROTECT salutes the fine work of the Open Space Institute [...]