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.
Protect the Adirondacks cheers the passage of the New York Wildlife Crossings Bill.
Click here for more information and to read about this important legislation.
Register today for the 2024 Annual Membership Meeting on July 20th at the Visitor Interpretive Center in Newcomb.
Click here to get more information and join us on July 20th.
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
The making of the Boreas Ponds compromise
News about the state's decision on the classification of the [...]
PROTECT applauds compromise in the state’s proposed classification of the Boreas Ponds tract
Compromise protects Boreas Ponds as Wilderness, while enabling easy public [...]
Union Tank Car Company pulls the plug on storage of its oil tankers in the Adirondacks, dealing Iowa Pacific a second major setback
The plan by Iowa Pacific Holdings and its owner/CEO Ed [...]
PROTECT cheers state action to stop storage of used oil tanker railcars in the Adirondack Park
State submits petition to federal Surface Transportation Board to end [...]
Judge rules against Protect the Adirondacks to allow vast expansion of motorized recreational use on the Forest Preserve
On December 1st, Judge Gerald Connolly, of State Supreme Court [...]
PROTECT, Local Government and Business Leaders Release New Video “Don’t Trash the Adirondack Park” about oil tanker storage on remote rail lines in the Adirondack Park GalleryPROTECT, Local Government and Business Leaders Release New Video “Don’t Trash the Adirondack Park” about oil tanker storage on remote rail lines in the Adirondack Park
PROTECT, Local Government and Business Leaders Release New Video “Don’t Trash the Adirondack Park” about oil tanker storage on remote rail lines in the Adirondack Park
4th shipment of over 20 new oil tankers was transported [...]