The testimony on February 1, 2022 at the joint Assembly-Senate budget hearing, provided by Basil Seggos, Commissioner of the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC), was false and misleading. Steven Englebright, Chairman of Assembly Committee on [...]
The current New York State budget being negotiated by Governor Kathy Hochul and the State Legislature contains significant new spending on a number of things, like $29 million for a new headquarters for the Adirondack [...]
In the time of Covid pandemic, the public Forest Preserve has been indispensable. New Yorkers from far and wide flocked to the public Forest Preserve for safe, socially-distant, outdoor activities throughout 2020 and 2021. The [...]
Will the new boss be the same as the old boss? We’ll know the answer to this question when the Adirondack Park Agency (APA) meets on January 13-14th. On its agenda is a draft permit [...]
APA Board to vote on this project at its January 13th meeting A huge number of public comments requested a formal adjudicatory public hearing for the project, but the APA has refused to hold any adjudicatory public [...]
Governor Kathy Hochul touted new investments in the Adirondack Park and Forest Preserve as part of the 2022 NYS State of the State address that she made in Albany today. In front of a lightly [...]
Protect the Adirondacks has been named to a new working group to help state agencies reform Forest Preserve trails management The Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has organized a working group to assist the department [...]
Protect the Adirondacks has a number of concerns about the proposed new project submitted to the Adirondack Park Agency (APA) in the Town of Jay in Essex County by Eric Stackman, a land developer from Miami, [...]
The Paul Smith’s College Adirondack Watershed Institute (AWI) recently announced that it has been awarded a grant from the Lake Champlain Basin Program to expand the Adirondack Lake Assessment Program (ALAP) and further safeguard waterbodies [...]
A very strange thing happened this fall in the High Peaks Wilderness Area. The Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) worked for weeks in 2021 with heavy machinery to rebuild an old logging road in the [...]
