The Evolution of a Nature Nut
Most folks, if asked, would say, "Sure, I love nature." Who doesn't love grass and trees and flowers and birds and butterflies and such? I certainly do. Always have. I grew up in a Michigan [...]
Helping to Sustain a Main Street: The Community Store Comes to Saranac Lake
A grassroots effort to provide quality goods at a reasonable price will help to sustain Saranac Lake as a small Adirondack town. After the Ames Department Store closed in 2002 residents had to drive outside [...]
PROTECT begins major new lawsuit challenging the state’s construction of “class II community connector” snowmobile trail network based on wide, road-like trails and grooming with large tracked groomers GalleryPROTECT begins major new lawsuit challenging the state’s construction of “class II community connector” snowmobile trail network based on wide, road-like trails and grooming with large tracked groomers
PROTECT begins major new lawsuit challenging the state’s construction of “class II community connector” snowmobile trail network based on wide, road-like trails and grooming with large tracked groomers
Protect the Adirondacks has started a new lawsuit against the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) and Adirondack Park Agency (APA) to challenge recent snowmobile policy and trail construction practices in the Adirondack Forest Preserve. [...]
Tens of thousands rally in Washington DC and around the U.S. calling for action to meet the challenges of global climate change
Over 40,000 braved the cold winds and freezing temperatures in Washington, DC on Sunday February 17th as part of the Forward on Climate campaign to stand with climate change activist and author Bill Mckibben, 350.org, [...]
PROTECT cheers APA for tabling controversial General Permit to loosen clearcutting rules
Protect the Adirondacks heralds the decision by the Adirondack Park Agency (APA) to postpone again action on a new draft General Permit to dramatically ease the rules for clearcutting in the Adirondack Park. Current rules [...]
PROTECT and a dozen other groups urge Governor Cuomo and APA to delay or deny General Permit to relax rules for clearcutting
The APA is set to vote on a new General Permit for clearcutting on Thursday February 14th. PROTECT has opposed this action because it loosens rules to make clearcutting in the Adirondacks easier for a [...]
APA’s action to loosen rules for clearcutting will result in large-scale clearcuts of already heavily cut industrial forestlands
Protect the Adirondacks opposes plans by the Adirondack Park Agency (APA) to approve a new draft General Permit to dramatically ease the rules for clearcutting in the Adirondack Park at its meeting on February 14, [...]
PROTECT releases satellite photographs showing heavy cutting of forests on state conservation easement lands in the Adirondack Park that raise many questions about long-term sustainable forestry management and the wisdom of proposed new APA rules to expand clearcutting
PROTECT has released a series of satellite photographs that show heavy tree cutting on state-held conservation easement lands in the northern Adirondack Park. These images show many clearcuts of just under 25 acres designed to [...]
PROTECT applauds new Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) to reduce carbon emissions by 45% by 2020
Protect applauds the new agreement by the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative to make sharp cuts in carbon emissions across the nine participating Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states by 2020. See announcement from RGGI state leaders. See [...]
PROTECT calls for swift action by the Governor and DEC to protect Lake George from aquatic invasive species
Lake George needs action by Governor Cuomo and the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) to save the lake and local economy. While local government officials, environmental groups and businesses all around Lake George are calling [...]