For Immediate ReleaseAugust 20, 2025 Contact: David Gibson, 518-469-4081or Ken Rimany, [email protected] Adirondack Wild Announces 2025 Awards Old Forge, NY – The nonprofit advocate Adirondack Wild: Friends of the Forest Preserve will present their annual awards during the organization’s meeting on Friday, October 10, 2025, at View Arts Center (viewarts.org) in Old Forge. The public…
Steve GuglielmiNYS Department of Environmental ConservationDivision of Lands and Forests1115 State Route 86Ray Brook, NY 12977 DEC SCOPING DOCUMENT RE. Debar Pond Lodge Dear Steve,Adirondack Wild: Friends of the Forest Preserve appreciates the chance to think through the scope of environmental impacts resulting from DEC’s preferred alternative: removal of Debar Pond Lodge (herein, “the Lodge”)…
August 4, 2025 Steve GuglielmiNYS Department of Environmental ConservationDivision of Lands and Forests1115 State Route 86Ray Brook, NY 12977 DEC SCOPING DOCUMENT RE. Debar Pond Lodge Dear Steve,Adirondack Wild: Friends of the Forest Preserve appreciates the chance to think through the scope of environmental impacts resulting from DEC’s preferred alternative: removal of Debar Pond Lodge…
Adirondack Wild: A Legacy Leader By Dave Gibson Adirondack Wild: Friends of the Forest Preserve was honored to be represented as an Adirondack Legacy Leader at the 50th anniversary of the Adirondack Council on July 19, 2025. Ceremonies were held at the historic Silver Bay YMCA on the shores of Lake George. While it was…
July 10, 2025 Aaron ZiemannAdirondack Park AgencyBox 99Ray Brook, NY 12977 Re. Land Vest Timber Harvest, Indian Lake, APA 2025-0104 Dear Mr. Ziemann, Adirondack Wild has the following concerns about this timber harvest proposal to clear-cut or overstory-cut over 500 acres adjacent to and very near the Cedar River and its tributaries. Our primary concern:…
Norm Van Valkenburgh: Catskill and Adirondack Conservation Champion By Dave Gibson Norman J. (Norm)Van Valkenburgh has slipped his earthly bonds. Of this remarkable Catskill native and champion of the public’s wild forests and wildernesses, I can locate no obituary, just a death notice of Norm’s passing in July 2023 in Orono, Maine at the age…
COMMENTARY: Adirondack Park Agency’s “ADA Explainer” Fails to Fully Explain By Dave Gibson During the June APA meeting, Adirondack Explorer covered the State Land Master Plan discussion, noting that “the leaders of environmental groups, who had raised concerns about the earlier accessibility language, thanked agency officials for removing the proposed changes and called for continued…
Ken Lynch, ChairState Land CommitteeNYS Adirondack Park AgencyBox 99Ray Brook, NY 12977 Re. Adirondack Park State Land Master Plan (“Master Plan”) proposed amendments Dear Mr. Lynch, First, we thank the Agency for finally bringing the matter of substantive draft amendments to a committee discussion and deliberation this week. The highly controversial staff proposals of last…
Governor Hochul’s Adirondack Park Agency Nominations Senator Peter Harckham, Chair, Environmental Conservation CommitteeSenator Liz Krueger, Chair, Senate Finance CommitteeNYS SenateAlbany, NY 12247 Re. Governor Hochul’s Adirondack Park Agency Nominations Dear Senators Krueger and Harckham, The Adirondack Park Agency badly needs nominees with environmental and natural resource planning experience who share a commitment to protect the…
Celebrating Evelyn Greene By Dave Gibson More than a couple of my Adirondack journal entries begin with something like this one dated February 15, 1999: “Evelyn phoned me. Have you been to Nate Davis Pond, she asked? Never, I answered. Wanna go, she asked?” And I was off on another adventure with North Creek’s Evelyn…