Major changes afoot for management of the “forever wild” Forest Preserve
Some major changes are afoot for our "Forever Wild" Adirondack Forest Preserve. Last fall, the Adirondack Park Agency (APA) held a series of "listening sessions" regarding possible amendments to the Adirondack Park State Land Master [...]
PROTECT releases new criteria to evaluate proposed Article XIV Constitutional Amendments
Article XIV, Section 1, of the New York State Constitution states: "The lands of the state, now owned or hereafter acquired, constituting the forest preserve as now fixed by law, shall be forever kept as [...]
Court actions are a major part of American democracy and a tool PROTECT uses only as a last resort
In their recent Letter to the Editor, Philadelphia developer Michael Foxman and his partner Thomas Lawson, representatives of Adirondack Club & Resort (ACR) in Tupper Lake, impugned the "high motives" of Protect the Adirondacks in [...]
Protect the Adirondacks cheers appointment of Steve Englebright as the new Chairman of the Assembly Environmental Conservation Committee
Protect the Adirondacks cheers the appointment of Steve Englebright (D-Setauket) as the new chairman of the Assembly Committee on Environmental Conservation. Assemblyman Englebright has served in the State Assembly since 1983, following service in the [...]
Governor Cuomo boosts environmental spending in the Environmental Protection Fund by cutting climate change funding
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has released his new 2014-15 state budget and it includes a boost in environmental spending for the Environmental Protection Fund (EPF). Governor Cuomo has proposed to increase the Environmental Protection [...]
PROTECT calls on Essex County Board of Supervisors to let freedom ring
Protect the Adirondacks published an op-ed in the Plattsburgh Press Republican titled "Let Freedom Ring in Essex County." This op-ed called on the Board of Supervisors to rescind its support for the vicious editorial published [...]
PROTECT responds to ill conceived resolution by the Essex County Board of Supervisors in support of curbs on free speech and free expression
When Protect the Adirondacks was viciously and unjustly attacked by Denton Publications, we talked to the newspaper and pointed out many factual errors and lapses of ethical standards in its editorial. The newspaper relented and [...]
PROTECT and other groups oppose 1,100-acre subdivision around Woodworth Lake set for approval by the Adirondack Park Agency
Protect the Adirondacks and other groups oppose the a subdivision on 1,100 acres around Woodworth Lake in the southern Adirondacks in the towns of Bleecker and Johnstown. This is a controversial issue because the Adirondack [...]
Denton Publications renounces its controversial editorial attacking Protect the Adirondacks
After two weeks of steady criticism for its inaccurate, poorly researched and inflammatory editorial attacking Protect the Adirondacks where it called for silencing and blacklisting of our advocacy work, Denton Publications published an apology and announced [...]