For Immediate ReleaseMarch 30, 2022 Contact: David Gibson518-469-4081 Adirondack Wild Hails Vote for Smarter Development The nonprofit advocate Adirondack Wild: Friends of the Forest Preserve hailed yesterday’s vote in the NYS Assembly in favor of an act to preserve ecological integrity, wildlife and open space in the Adirondack Park. The bill was sponsored by…
By Dave Gibson, Managing Partner Adirondack Wild. Paul Schaefer and the making of an Adirondack map The Association for the Protection of the Adirondacks had hired me the previous winter. It was now the spring of 1987. Windows and doors were again opening to the hope and then the reality of spring’s warmth. The director…
The Hon. Kathy Hochul, GovernorState of New YorkExecutive ChamberState CapitolAlbany, NY 12224 Re. Round Goby Threat to Lake Champlain Dear Governor, Adirondack Wild wishes to join the Adirondack and New York Nature Conservancy, the Lake Champlain Basin Program, the Essex County Board of Supervisors, and many other stakeholders in asking that the Canal Corporation issue…
John BurthEnforcement UnitNYS Adirondack Park AgencyP.O. Box 99Ray Brook, NY 12977 Re. Erosion and Sedimentation into Streams, Woodward Lake Properties Dear John: I write to call the Agency’s attention to an apparent and concerning lack of any basic erosion and sediment control practices at the Woodward Lake subdivision on Collins-Gifford Valley Road in Northhampton. Driving…
By Dave Gibson, Managing Partner Adirondack Wild. Is APA review the equivalent of an Environmental Impact Statement? No. Over the course of time, the Adirondack Park Agency’s permit practice has drifted too far away from what the 1973 Agency Act and the State Environmental Quality Review Act require. The State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQR)…