The State Supreme Court in Albany issued a decision recently that allows a lawsuit to advance over snowmobile trail management on the Forest Preserve filed by Protect the Adirondacks in February 2013 against the Adirondack [...]
On August 29, 2013 Protect the Adirondacks, along with the Adirondack Council, Adirondack Mountain Club, and Adirondack Wild: Friends of the Forest Preserve, submitted a letter to the Adirondack Park Agency (APA) urging the Board [...]
One of the biggest experiments in the northeast U.S. in stormwater management is up and running at the south end of Lake George. Last June, Warren County completed a reconstruction project on a .75 mile [...]
Protect the Adirondacks Adirondack Mountain Club Adirondack Council Adirondack Wild: Friends of the Forest Preserve Environmental Advocates Hudson Riverkeeper National Wildlife Federation Environment New York Sierra Club Atlantic Chapter Public Comments Support Wilderness for Finch [...]
Almost 5,000 pages of written public comments, most supporting Wilderness classification, were submitted as part of the recent public hearing concerning some 46,000 acres of newly purchased and existing Forest Preserve lands around the Essex [...]
Attorneys for Protect the Adirondacks submitted a response to the state's motion to dismiss its lawsuit that challenges the state's construction and management of snowmobile trails in the Forest Preserve. The case focuses on the [...]
At the current public hearings by the Adirondack Park Agency (APA) over the classification of the former Finch Paper lands, a common refrain among snowmobile trail expansion advocates has been something like "after the snow [...]
Three new interesting data points have recently come out from the US Census and the NYS Department of Education that provide a state and national context for the Adirondack population debate. In previous posts I [...]
The Adirondack Park is held up as the great wilderness area in the eastern United States. It's the place where people come for a wilderness experience and to enjoy the great outdoors. One great myth [...]
Protect the Adirondacks filed a Memo in Opposition against legislation (S.4282) to create a new Transferrable Development Rights program in the Adirondack Park as well as streamline permit-filing requirements. This legislation has passed the State [...]
