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…
By David Gibson, Managing Partner, Adirondack Wild 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…
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…
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…