DEC Mobility Device Policy for State Lands Requires Oversight, Comments from the Adirondack Park Agency

For Immediate ReleaseMarch 18, 2026 Contact: David Gibson, [email protected] DEC Mobility Device Policy for State Lands Requires Oversight, Comments from the Adirondack Park Agency Ray Brook, NY – The nonprofit wilderness advocate Adirondack Wild: Friends of the Forest Preserve is asking the Adirondack Park Agency’s State Land Committee this week to review and comment on…

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Coming of age in the Adirondacks 

Coming of age in the Adirondacks Paul Schaefer grew to become a highly influential Adirondack wilderness conservationist. This chapter of “A Force for Nature: Paul Schaefer’s Adirondack Coalitions” reveals a truth: Family units often discover the healing and teaching properties of Adirondack landscapes and Adirondack people together. In the case of the Schaefer family, Adirondack…

The Legacy of Paul Schaefer – April 30,2026 

The Legacy of Paul Schaefer Events A Force for Nature: Paul Schaefer’s Adirondack Coalitions (2025 by Syracuse University Press), my biography of Friends of the Forest Preserve founder Paul Schaefer will be featured at three events during the month of April 2026. 30th Annual Conference on the Adirondacks Wednesday, April 15th and Thursday, April 16th,…