A major new program in Governor Andrew's Cuomo's 2018-19 state budget is the Empire Forests of the Future Initiative, referred to as "EFFI." This new program seeks to overhaul and modernize two longstanding "Preferential Forest [...]
State of New York currently pays property taxes based on local assessments. A tax cap could lower state tax payments and cause a tax shift to private lands. Much more information is needed to assess [...]
Compromise protects Boreas Ponds as Wilderness, while enabling easy public access and a variety of recreational uses on neighboring Wild Forest lands Wilderness Classification for the Boreas Ponds is major milestone in the history of [...]
News about the state's decision on the classification of the 21,000-acre Boreas Ponds tract, part of a larger 54,000-acre classification package released by the Adirondack Park Agency (APA), has been met with a spectrum of [...]
Compromise protects Boreas Ponds as Wilderness, while enabling easy public access and a variety of recreational uses on neighboring Wild Forest lands Wilderness Classification for the Boreas Ponds is major milestone in the history of [...]
The plan by Iowa Pacific Holdings and its owner/CEO Ed Ellis to use the Adirondack Park as a junkyard to store thousands of out-of-service oil tanker railcars has hit significant stumbling blocks in the recent [...]
State submits petition to federal Surface Transportation Board to end use of Sanford Lake Rail Line by Iowa Pacific Holdings, citing companies failures to live up to 2012 agreenents that reopened the rail line. Protect [...]
On December 1st, Judge Gerald Connolly, of State Supreme Court in Albany County, issued his decision in the lawsuit brought by Protect the Adirondacks against the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation and Adirondack Park Agency [...]
4th shipment of over 20 new oil tankers was transported into the Adirondack Park on November 15th; over 80 oil tankers are now stored on siding track on the Boreas River and south of Tahawus [...]
Over the past month, three shipments of used out-of-service oil tanker railcars have been transported to the Adirondack Park by Iowa Pacific Holdings for indefinite storage on its dead-end, 30-mile-long Sanford Lake Railway line that [...]
