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
Public comments needed on draft UMP amendments to Forest Preserve areas in the central Adirondacks
The Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has released a draft [...]
PROTECT and other groups start legal action to stop exploratory mining in the Jay Mountain Wilderness
Exploratory Drilling in Wilderness Would Violate Non-Constitutional Laws; Groups File [...]
Public comments needed now on draft Essex Chain Complex UMP to defend the Forest Preserve
The Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has released a draft [...]
New dataset for various quality of life measures places the Adirondack Park in a national context
Recent pieces posted by PROTECT Board member Phil Terrie and [...]
Protect the Adirondacks is disappointed by decision in its legal challenge to APA’s approval of ACR project
The New York Appellate Division, Third Department ruled to uphold [...]
APRAP Update misdiagnoses population issues in Adirondack Park
The Adirondack Park Regional Assessment Project (APRAP) recently came out [...]