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.
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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.
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’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 [...]
PROTECT applauds new Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) to reduce carbon emissions by 45% by 2020
Protect applauds the new agreement by the Regional Greenhouse Gas [...]
PROTECT calls for swift action by the Governor and DEC to protect Lake George from aquatic invasive species
Lake George needs action by Governor Cuomo and the Department [...]
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 [...]