Protect the Adirondacks has been monitoring the construction of the new community connector class II snowmobile trail from the Limekiln Lake-Cedar River Road to the Sagamore Road in Raquette Lake in the Moose River Plains [...]
Protect the Adirondacks Adirondack Mountain Club Adirondack Council Adirondack Wild Sierra Club Atlantic Chapter January 7, 2013 Hon. Andrew Cuomo Executive Chamber State Capital Albany, NY 12224 Hon. Joe Martens Commissioner NYSDEC 325 Broadway, 14th [...]
Protect the Adirondacks supports a decision by the Adirondack Park Agency (APA) to postpone action on a new draft General Permit to dramatically ease the rules for clearcutting in the Adirondack Park. Current rules call [...]
Protect the Adirondacks was fully engaged in a variety of issues across the Adirondack Park in 2012. PROTECT worked effectively to defend the Forest Preserve, advocate for open space protection, lead the way in water [...]
As we move through the end-of-the-year holidays season it's worth pausing to note that 2012 will go down as as the warmest year ever for the lower 48 states in the U.S. An unusually warm [...]
The Adirondack Park Agency (APA) has begun an official process to loosen rules to make clearcutting Adirondack forests much easier. The APA passed a draft new General Permit at its November Board meeting and issued [...]
Protect the Adirondacks and the Sierra Club put out a press release today about a new decision from the state Appellate Division to remand our discovery motion to State Supreme Court. You can read the [...]
Good news is out today for those that appreciate the Wilderness parts of the Forest Preserve in the Adirondack Park and who think that there should be places where motors of all kinds are not [...]
Protect the Adirondacks today put out a press release calling for the creation of a new 39,000-acre Upper Hudson River Wilderness Area. See the full press release and a map of the new Wilderness Area. [...]
The preservation of wild open spaces – forests, lakes, streams, rivers, wetlands – is one of the best things that our civilization does. Wildlands serve us in many ways. They protect our water and air [...]