Bald Mountain is a challenging hike with numerous small lookouts that leads to sweeping views of Giant Mountain and Rocky Peak Mountain Bald Mountain 3.9 miles (7.8 round-trip) Giant Mountain Wilderness Elizabethtown, Essex County Hiking, [...]
Baldface Mountain is a short paddle across Indian Lake to a short hike to an open mountain summit with sweeping views of Indian Lake and surrounding mountains Baldface Mountain 0.8 miles (1.6 round-trip) Indian Lake, [...]
Baker Mountain is an short 0.9-mile hike to rocky outcrops with sweeping views of the Village of Saranac Lake and the surrounding lakes and mountains Baker Mountain 0.9 mile (1.8 round-trip) North Elba, Essex County [...]
Auger Falls is a short hike to a beautiful ravine and waterfall south of Speculator Auger Falls 0.4 mile (0.8 round-trip/1.2 mile loop) Wells, Hamilton County Siamese Ponds Wilderness Hiking, Snowshoeing Level of Difficulty: Easy [...]
Oral arguments were made on March 23, 2021 at the New York Court of Appeals in lawsuit by Protect the Adirondacks against the Department of Environmental Conservation and Adirondack Park Agency over alleged heavy tree [...]
The New York State Assembly hit a home run in its fiscal year 2021-22 New York State budget with the historic increase of the Environmental Protection Fund. The New York State Senate hit one out of [...]
New High Peaks Advisory Group report calls for broad, long-term reforms of Forest Preserve management. The eagerly awaited final report of the High Peaks Strategic Planning Advisory Group (HPAG) is out. It was worth the [...]
The APA gets low marks for its inability to meaningfully improve or change a 34-lot subdivision in the southern Adirondacks. After 2-year review, the project is barely changed from the original submission. A proposed 34-lot [...]
Current Legislation in the State Assembly and State Senate seeks to reform the APA Act to protect open space and prevent forest and habitat fragmentation. This would be the most important revision of the APA [...]
Briefs Have Been Submitted to the Court of Appeals Updated March 1, 2021 The formal filings by both sides are complete in the lawsuit by Protect the Adirondacks against the New York State Department of [...]
