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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Take the Forest Preserve Hiker Survey. Share your experience hiking in the Adirondack Forest Preserve.
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.
Our Annual Meeting will be held July 11, 2026.
The link for more information is available here.
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 Submits ACR Reply Brief
By Charles Morrison Protect's Reply Brief for the Proposed Adirondack [...]
ACR Post Hearing Brief Filed
By Charles Morrison WHOÂ PROTECTS THE ADIRONDACKS? WE DO.......... PROTECT THE [...]
Low’s Lake Ruled to be Managed as Wilderness
In August 2011, Supreme Court Justice Michael C. Lynch of [...]
A New Phase for the Center for the Forest Preserve and the Adirondack Research Library.
May 1, 2011 Union College Plans an Adirondack Program through [...]
Letter to Governor Cuomo about future of Camp Gabriels
March 29, 2011 Hon. Andrew M. Cuomo, Governor Executive Chamber [...]
PROTECT’s position on snowmobile trails in the Adirondack Forest Preserve
By Michael Wilson, Conservation Advocacy Committee, Protect the Adirondacks Protect [...]