The Adirondack Park Agency (APA) has released its preferred alternative for classification of over 21,000 acres of new Forest Preserve lands around the Essex Chain Lakes and Hudson River and reclassification of over 18,000 acres [...]
Protect the Adirondacks calls upon the Adirondack Park Agency (APA) to release an extensive legal analysis written by the chairman of the APA State Lands Committee that details the legal and policy options for the [...]
Protect the Adirondacks is heartened by the over million New Yorkers who voted no on Proposition 5 and voted to defend the Forest Preserve. The issue here was never about the economic vitality of small [...]
Protect the Adirondacks is deeply grateful for all the support from people around New York who have stood up for Forever Wild. This is no small feat in this day and age. Proposition 5 is [...]
Protect the Adirondacks has filed a major part of our lawsuit that challenges the construction and management of snowmobile trails on the Forest Preserve by the Adirondack Park Agency (APA) and Department of Environmental Conservation [...]
No state permits have been issued to date Two recent media accounts (here and here) about the status of the Adirondack Club & Resort (ACR) project in Tupper Lake have written about "permits" having been [...]
Protect the Adirondacks supports this proposed Constitutional Amendment to Article XIV of the State Constitution. This is Proposition 4 on the state ballot. PROTECT does so with grave reservations as to its future implementation by [...]
The November ballot this year will feature six Constitutional Amendments. Two involve land exchanges involving the Forest Preserve. PROTECT opposes Proposition 5, known as the "NYCO" amendment, while supporting Proposition 4, known as the "Township [...]
The 1924 sign law that effectively banned billboards throughout the Adirondack Park shows how our forbearers were braver, wiser, and more prescient than we are today. It was a bold decision that resulted, by some [...]
PROTECT files a new Motion for Preliminary Injunction against new Snowmobile Trail Building See full Press Release. Protect the Adirondacks has filed a new Motion for a Preliminary Injunction against the NYS Adirondack Park Agency [...]