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)…
By Dave Gibson, Managing Partner Adirondack Wild. The Voluntary Professionals Behind the Adirondack Research Library Many organizations introduce their work with the words “were it not for the volunteers, we could not…” That can be justifiably said of the Adirondack Research Library (ARL), formerly part of the Association for the Protection of the Adirondacks (AfPA).…
For Immediate ReleaseFebruary 14, 2022 Contact: David Gibson518-469-4081 Adirondack Wild Supports Debar Pond Lodge Land Exchangeand Bill to Support Ecological Integrity in the Adirondack Park Adirondack Wild has endorsed a joint legislative resolution in Albany to amend Article 14 of the New York State Constitution and authorize a land exchange between the Debar Institute and…
Memorandum of Support A. 4074 (M/A Englebright et. al.) An Act to amend the executive law in relation to preserving ecological integrity, wildlife and open space in the Adirondack Park, sponsored by Assembly Member Englebright, et.al. Adirondack Wild: Friends of the Forest Preserve encourages passage of A. 4074 (same as S. 1145) in the…
Matt KendallNYS Adirondack Park AgencyP.O. Box 99Ray Brook, NY 12977 Re. Town of Warrensburg Proposed Land Use Map Changes Dear Mr. Kendall, On behalf of Adirondack Wild, we find the proposed map amendments in Warrensburg, both proposed to be reclassified Hamlet, problematic in terms of the APA Act. The likely adverse environmental impacts of reclassification,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…