Protect the Adirondacks
Protect the Adirondacks! Inc. is a non-profit, grassroots membership organization dedicated to the protection and stewardship of the public and private lands of the Adirondack Park, and to building the health and diversity of its natural and human communities for the benefit of current and future generations.
Help save the 36,000-acre Whitney Park in the central Adirondacks. Send an email to Governor Hochul today.
Click here for more information and see how you can submit a public comment today.
Join Us for our Annual Meeting July 11, 2026. Check back here for registration info.
The link for more information and to register will be posted here.
Sign Up as a Member
Become a member of Protect the Adirondacks and add your voice to the defense of the public Forest Preserve, protection of the great forests and waters of the Adirondacks, and help campaign for strengthening protections and improving the management of the six-million-acre Adirondack Park.
The link below will bring you to our secure page to sign up today as a new member.
Become an e-Activist
When you are an E-Activist, we will provide you with information on opportunities to take immediate action online, and also become involved, on an ongoing basis.
The link below will bring you to a quick and easy online form.
Conservation and Advocacy
New 120-unit luxury housing development proposed in the Adirondacks in the Town of Jay, Essex County
Protect the Adirondacks has a number of concerns about the [...]
New opportunity for water quality monitoring of lakes and ponds in the Lake Champlain watershed area of the Adirondack Park
The Paul Smith’s College Adirondack Watershed Institute (AWI) recently announced [...]
NYSDEC’s Management Fiasco in the High Peaks Wilderness Area
A very strange thing happened this fall in the High [...]
State Agencies need to comply with historic forever wild decision
The NYS Department of Environmental Conservation and Adirondack Park Agency [...]
Our online hiking trails guide is very popular
Over the past year, PROTECT worked to research and publish [...]
The Adirondack Park Agency Must Reform and Embrace Transparency
Recently, we saw news that Governor Kathy Hochul has instructed [...]