Buffalo farm in the Adirondacks

2022 Environment Budget Hearings

By Dave Gibson, Managing Partner Adirondack Wild. 2022 Environment Budget Hearings As one who paused this week to testify and to listen to the Environmental Budget hearing in the State Legislature’s Ways and Means and Finance Committees, I could not help but notice the budget winners and losers. In a year when state revenues are…

Re. Executive Budget for the Environment for FY 2021-22

Statement to the New York State LegislatureConcerning the Executive Budget for the EnvironmentJanuary 27, 2021 To Senator Krueger, Assemblywoman Weinstein and all Members of the Joint Senate Finance and Assembly Ways and Means Committee Public Hearing Re. Executive Budget for the Environment for FY 2021-22 Overall: Adirondack Wild applauds Governor Cuomo’s executive budget for not…

Kathy Martino

The next APA executive director

By Dave Gibson, Managing Partner Adirondack Wild. The next APA executive director – a lot at stake for Kathy Hochul, John Ernst and the rest of us After a dozen years, Terry Martino is retiring as the executive director of the NYS Adirondack Park Agency. Terry is an admirable person who has had a difficult…

Ken Rimany holding a beaver

Remembering Wendy Hall

Remembering Wendy Hall By Ken Rimany, Partner Adirondack Wild. Wendy Hall, founder of the Adirondack Wildlife Refuge, which she ran alongside her husband Stephen Hall (who also is a long-time Almanack contributor), passed away on Sunday. Ken Rimany, a partner with Adirondack Wild, shared this recollection: Incomparable champions of all wildlife, big and small, Wendy and Steve…

David Gibson with a group at the New York State Legislature building

In Adirondack Common Cause

By David Gibson, Managing Partner, Adirondack Wild In Adirondack Common Cause Adirondack Wild and I have been among those who heralded the NYS Court of Appeals ruling in May that the only way for the Department of Environmental Conservation to construct snowmobile community connector trails in the Adirondack and Catskill Forest Preserve was through a…

Adirondack Wild & Public Comments Improve Kildare Tract Management Plan

For Immediate ReleaseJanuary 7, 2021Contact: David Gibson, 518-469-4081 Adirondack Wild & Public Comments Improve Kildare Tract Management Plan Comments from the nonprofit advocate Adirondack Wild and the public have positively influenced state planning for one of the most sensitive areas of the Adirondack Park, the Raquette-Boreal area. The final plan released by the NYS Department…