Important Notice: Annual Meeting Location Has Been Changed. The location for the 2023 annual membership meeting of Protect the Adirondacks has been moved from the Visitor Interpretive Center in Newcomb to the Exit 29 (Adirondack [...]
Road salt pollution in Adirondacks lakes has been well documented over the last three decades and spotlighted for political action over the last decade. Contamination of residential and small business drinking water wells in lands [...]
The best investment in Adirondack conservation and environmental protection that you can make. Adirondack 500 is a group of dedicated donors who commit to an annual contribution at the level of their choice to support [...]
New York State becomes the 9th state to ban wildlife killing contests On June 21, 2023, the NYS Assembly passed legislation carried by Deborah Glick, Chair of the Assembly Committee on Environmental Conservation, to ban [...]
In June, a draft Article 14 Constitutional Amendment was passed by both the State Senate and State Assembly to clean up violations at the Mount Van Hoevenberg Winter Sports Complex outside of Lake Placid. This [...]
Don’t privatize the Public Forest Preserve, this bad deal for forever wild must be stopped! Protect the Adirondacks opposes S.03030 (Stec)/A.02816 (Jones). This legislation states that its purpose is to amend the constitution to convey [...]
The Adirondack Park has long been cherished by New Yorkers. Over 90 percent of the constitutionally protected public Forest Preserve in New York State is in the Adirondack Park, including the state’s grandest Wilderness Areas. [...]
PROTECT supports First Passage of Article 14 Amendment for Camp Gabriels state prison complex Protect the Adirondacks supports the proposed amendment to Article 14, Section 1, the “forever wild” clause of the New York State [...]
APA is trying to change its Public Comment Policy to make it more difficult for the public to submit comments and provide less public input. The Adirondack Park Agency (APA) is seeking to change its [...]
The US Census recently released its estimates for changes in U.S. population for 2021-2022. These are estimates that are based on samples and models from across the country and are not the complete counts that [...]
