Adirondack Explorer’s reporter and writer Gwendolyn Craig has authored a fine article this month titled “The Long Wait for Forest Preserve Plans,” referring to the lack of unit management plans (herein, “UMP”) for some significant Forest Preserve Wilderness areas, like West Canada Lake and William C. Whitney, and for a group of Wild Forest areas,…
Adirondack Wild Meets at the Newcomb Visitor Interpretive Center. October 6 Meeting Open to the Public.2023 Wilderness and Wild Stewardship Awards announced. Newcomb, NY – The nonprofit advocate Adirondack Wild: Friends of the Forest Preserve announces its Annual Meeting of Members and Friends will begin at 11 AM on Friday October 6, 2023, at Newcomb’s…
Survey of Ideas August 2023 Concerning the $650 million from the Bond Act that New York voters have made available for open space land conservation and recreation, Adirondack Wild: Friends of the Forest Preserve asks that: NYS DEC work more closely with the NYS Attorney General’s and Comptroller’s offices to overcome current logjams in the…
Adirondack Wild Takes APA to Court for Bypassing Park Wetland Laws For Immediate ReleaseAugust 14, 2023Contact: David Gibson, 518-469-4081dgibson@adirondackwild.org Adirondack Wild: Friends of the Forest Preserve has filed an Article 78 lawsuit in State Supreme Court to contest the failure of the Adirondack Park Agency (APA) to assert its responsibilities for Value 1 wetlands, the…
Jonathan DeSantis New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYS DEC) Division of Lands and Forests 701 South Main Street P.O. Box 1316 Northville, NY 12134 Re. Work Plan for the Wilson Ridge Trail, Arietta Adirondack Wild: Friends of the Forest Preserve and Adirondack Wilderness Advocates appreciate this opportunity to comment on the July 12…
Before there were motor free lakes Although by 1973 Wilderness areas had been officially designated on about one million acres within the Adirondack Forest Preserve, the question of whether waterbodies within those million acres would be similarly free of use by motors was still highly uncertain. In June 1973 the first Commissioner of the new…
Fiona Watt, DirectorDivision of Lands and ForestsNYS DEC625 BroadwayAlbany, NY 12233 Joseph Zalewski, Regional DirectorNYS DECRt. 86Ray Brook, NY 12977 Megan Phillips, Director of PlanningNYS Adirondack Park AgencyP.O. Box 99Ray Brook, NY 12977 Improper use of all-terrain vehicles on Wild Forest Trail in classified Wilderness Dear Ms. Watt, Mr. Zalewski, and Ms. Phillips, The undersigned…
At the APA, Critical Questions about Wetland Protection Are Not Asked APA’s staff presentation about the variance recently issued for SL Marina on Lower Saranac Lake may have been “heroic,” just as APA chair John Ernst stated. The marina has a lengthy and complex history of regulatory and legal actions since 2014 to remove wooden,…
Proforestation in the Adirondacks and Statewide Two recent public forestry panel discussions at Paul Smith’s College and the Adirondack Research Consortium have led me to consider both private and public forests in the Adirondacks in an economically innovative, pro-climate way. Both forestry panel discussions that I attended focused on climate change, and both gave action…
Mr. John BurthNYS Adirondack Park AgencyP.O. Box 99Ray Brook, NY 12977 Re. Public Hearing, Variance Request, Project 2016-0029A, LS Marina, Lower Saranac Lake We write in response to the June 5 public hearing called by the Agency for a variance to the Agency’s shoreline restrictions. We listened carefully to that hearing. Although information was presented…