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.
Register today for our Annual Meeting: July 12, 2025.
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
PROTECT testifies at NYS Legislature Budget Hearing for Environmental Conservation
NYS Assembly-Senate Environmental Conservation Budget Hearing on January 27, 2021 via [...]
Sign Petition to Save Whitney Park
Save Whitney Park: Sign Your Name to a Petition to [...]
2021 Agenda for a Wild Adirondack Park
The COVID19 pandemic changed the nature of Adirondack Park environmental [...]
Adirondack environmental groups release shared 2021 legislative priorities
A joint letters was submitted to state leaders in Albany [...]
Proposed subdivision of Woodward Lake is a conventional development that fragments an intact forest and rings an Adirondack lake with houses
Proposed development seeks an APA permit for 32 houses around [...]
Peter Hornbeck, Master Boatbuilder, Wilderness Advocate, and PROTECT Board Member, 1943-2020
Peter Hornbeck, founder of Hornbeck Boats and master boatbuilder of lightweight [...]