DEC and APA have embraced a new plan for wide snowmobile trails that violate the constitutional protections for the Forest Preserve and recent court decisions. The Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) and Adirondack Park Agency [...]
Submit your comment today to the Department of Environmental Conservation on its draft “Strategies and Methodology” for complying with New York’s 30 by 30 Act The Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) is seeking public comments [...]
The Nature Conservancy announced that it has worked out two new conservation easements with the State of New York to protect for all time the 14,645-acre Follensby Pond tract. These easements will protect the world [...]
Through most of the last few years, Protect the Adirondacks stood alone in its opposition to the proposed amendment to Article 14, Section 1, the famed Forever Wild clause of the New York Constitution, to [...]
Wolves that migrate into New York or are already in the state deserve greater protections Protect the Adirondacks supports new legislation (S.7927/A.8295) in the State Senate and State Assembly sponsored by Senator Brad Hoylman-Sigal and [...]
In April 2021, Red Rock Quarry Associates, LLC (Red Rock) submitted a permit application to the Adirondack Park Agency (APA) seeking approval for a new major granite mining project on a 56-acre parcel of land [...]
The Adirondack Park Agency is accepting public comments on its proposed land classifications for 5,800 acres of newly purchased Forest Preserve lands in the Adirondack Park. The Adirondack Park Agency (APA) is seeking public comment [...]
Assessing the carrying capacity of specific areas of the public Forest Preserve, especially lakes and ponds, has been a requirement of the Adirondack Park State Land Master Plan for decades. Despite the plain language of [...]
It’s been nearly two years since the New York Court of Appeals, the State’s highest court, ruled that extra-wide Class II Community Connector Snowmobile Trails designed, approved, and constructed by the Department of Environmental Conservation [...]
Protect the Adirondacks will defend the Appellate Division ruling that the State is appealing, which held that the amount of tree cutting by the State on the Forest Preserve violated Article 14, Section 1, and [...]
