APA failure to hold public hearings has consequences Last April, Adirondack organizations wrote to the Adirondack Park Agency asking APA to rediscover their discretionary power to hold adjudicatory public hearings on particularly complex, controversial Adirondack land use projects. No response to our joint letter has been forthcoming from the APA. However, a rather resounding response…
March 8, 2023Barbara Rice, Executive Director &John Ernst, ChairNYS Adirondack Park AgencyP.O. Box 99Ray Brook, NY 12977Dear Barbara and John, During the February Agency meeting members and staff continued to debate Wild Forest guideline 4, “no material increase in the mileage of Wild Forest roads and snowmobile trails open to motorized uses by the public”…
Nearly 100 people attend Adirondack Park Lobby Day in Albany Nearly 100 people from 20 different Adirondack organizations met with 50 state legislators and their staff during Adirondack Park Lobby Day to advocate for funding and policy advancements for the Adirondack Park. A group of Eagle Scouts from Queens, NY took the bus to Albany…
March 1, 2023Contact: David Gibson, Adirondackwild.org518-469-4081, dgibson@adirondackwild.org Adirondack Park Lobby Day in Albany Photo by Ken Rimany Albany, NY – Nearly 100 people from 20 different Adirondack organizations met with 50 state legislators and their staff during Adirondack Park Lobby Day to advocate for funding and policy advancements for the Adirondack Park. A group of…
The Heart of the Adirondacks Newcomb is in the heart of the Adirondack Park, and Newcomb’s Adirondack Interpretive Center (AIC) of the State University College of Environmental Science and Forestry is the beating heart of Park ecological science. AIC operates one of the longest, if not the longest, uninterrupted study of the interactions of forest…
Peter FrankNew York State DECDivision of Lands and Forests625 BroadwayAlbany, NY 12233 Re. Comment on draft Commissioner’s Policy: Forest Preserve Work Plans Dear Mr. Frank, While DEC’s Draft Forest Preserve Work Plan Policy contains good logic and structure, and addresses key constitutionally required questions to be answered in Forest Preserve work plans, there are also…
APA Act at 50 – Interdependence, not Balance Well, it’s happened again. Another state budget is proposed by the Executive wherein the Adirondack Park Agency’s job is mischaracterized by this Governor’s (and former governors’) budget divisions as working “to achieve a balance between strong environmental protection and sustainable economic development opportunities for the residents of…
Honorable Kathy Hochul, GovernorExecutive ChamberState CapitolAlbany, NY 12224 Adirondack CouncilAdirondack Wild: Friends of the Forest PreserveEnvironmental Advocates of New YorkProtect the AdirondacksSierra Club Atlantic Chapter Dear Governor Hochul: 2023 presents major challenges and great opportunities for the Adirondack Park. The year will kick off with the World University Games in Lake Placid and North Creek,…
DEC Lands and Forests – Should It Still Do More with Less? DEC discussing future accessible trail to Boreas Pond lean-toGovernor Kathy Hochul has signed the “30:30 by 2030” state legislation whose objective is, in line with national goals, to bring New York State’s percentage of protected lands and waters up to 30 percent by…
Ariel Lynch, John Burth, Barbara Rice, Chris CooperNYS Adirondack Park AgencyP.O. Box 99Ray Brook, NY 12977 Re. P2022-0008 Dear Ms. Lynch, Ms. Rice, Mr. Burch, Mr. Cooper, I recognize the comment period is over for this project before you but hope you would be willing to add this comment on this Tuesday before your Thursday…