For Immediate ReleaseMay 2, 2025Contact: Dave Gibson, 518-469-4081, [email protected] A Force for Nature: Paul Schaefer’s Adirondack Coalitions The nonprofit advocate Adirondack Wild: Friends of the Forest Preserve is pleased to announce that a biography of its founder, Paul Schaefer, has just been published by Syracuse University Press. To quote Syracuse University Press, A Force for…
Memo of Support for Amendment of Article XIV Re: Mt. Van Hoevenberg S. 5227 (Harckham) A. 7454 (Jones) Amendment of Article XIV Re. Mt. Van HoevenbergS. 6888 (Harckham) A. 3628 (Jones) Implementing bill, Mt. Van Hoevenberg Adirondack Wild: Friends of the Forest Preserve lends support for second legislative passage of the constitutional amendment of Article…
Conservation Minded Design for Adirondack Subdivisions Still Rarely Employed By Dave Gibson Ecologist and land use planner George Davis and his staff at the Commission on the Adirondacks in the 21st Century wrote in the Commission’s final report in 1990 that “rising land values and increasing costs of land ownership are making it difficult for forest and…
Michael Wilson – A river ran through him Michael died this winter, and I will remember him with much affection and admiration. I remember his laugh, and his eyes lit up when we met. I remember Michael investigating the social, cultural, and class dimensions of Adirondack wilderness, conservation, architecture, and other histories all around his…
Adirondack Park Agency Staff: ‘We Have A Hostile and Toxic Work Environment’ By Dave Gibson On February 12, 2025, the regional field representative for the Public Employees Federation (PEF), the union representing approximately 50,000 State employees with professional, scientific and technical responsibilities, sent an email to each of the eleven members of the Adirondack Park…
For Immediate ReleaseFebruary 13, 2025Contact: Dave Gibson, 518-469-4081, [email protected] Announcing Wilderness Management: Stewardship and Protection of Resources and Values, 5th Edition The 5th edition of Wilderness Management: Stewardship and Protection of Resources and Values will be published by Waveland Press later this month. The classic textbook contains the most comprehensive and updated information available about…
Statement to the New York State Legislature Concerning the Executive Budget for the EnvironmentJanuary 28, 2025 To: Senator Krueger, Assembly Member Pretlow, and all Members of the Joint Senate Finance and Assembly Ways and Means Committee Public Hearing Re. Executive Budget for the Environment for FY 2025-26 Respectfully, Adirondack Wild: Friends of the Forest Preserve…
COMMENTARY: Ten Questions to Challenge Business as Usual at the APA By David Gibson The Adirondack Park Agency’s monthly public comment opportunities and long list of permits issued during the year are duly posted on the APA website and at Adirondack Almanack. This posting of basic Agency information is positive. However, behind the apparent conduct…
COMMENTARY: Is APA OK with ceding its authority over the Master Plan? For decades the Adirondack Park State Land Master Plan (APSLMP) has required that State Land Unit Management Plans “will address, on a site specific basis the identification, in intensive use, historic and appropriate portions of wild forest areas accessible by motor vehicles, of…
Hon. Kathy Hochul, GovernorState of New YorkExecutive ChamberState CapitolAlbany, NY 12224 Re. Third Comment Letter, Proposed Adirondack Park State Land Master Plan (APSLMP) amendments Dear Governor Hochul: The undersigned Adirondack Park advocacy groups respectfully urge you to intervene to prevent an unprecedented and significantly damaging change to the Adirondack Park State Land Master Plan (Master…