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 [...]
The impacts of Tropical Storm Irene are still plainly evident across large swaths of the eastern Adirondack Park. Highly altered and hardened stream channels, new bridges and stretches of highway, new concrete walls along stream [...]
Update: This article was originally posted on October 23rd based on a field visit to the site on October 18, 2012. On November 12th the site was visited again to view new work. New pictures [...]
In August, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced his intention to purchase 69,000 acres of former Finch, Pruyn & Company lands from the Nature Conservancy for addition to the "forever wild" Forest Preserve. PROTECT heartily congratulates the [...]
