By David Gibson, Managing Partner, Adirondack Wild Cost to Lake George of Not Holding APA Hearings The Adirondack Park Agency (APA) last held an adjudicatory public hearing in 2011 – the kind of hearing that involves sworn testimony and cross-examination of evidence before a law judge, followed by a full hearing record on which to…
By David Gibson, Managing Partner, Adirondack Wild Civic Conversations about Wilderness – with Ed Zahniser As reported in Adirondack Almanack this winter (www.adirondackalmanack.com) , the Warren County Department of Planning and Community Development has launched a collaboration with Cliff & Redfield Interactive (CRI), a Saratoga Springs-based rich-media communications organization, for a year-long campaign to promote…
John Ernst, Chair, Members and DesigneesNYS Adirondack Park AgencyP.O. Box 99Ray Brook, NY 12977Dear Chairman Ernst, Members, and Designees, Letter to APA Re. Adjudicatory Public Hearings The undersigned organizations and individuals have great concerns about the spread of adverse environmental impacts across the Adirondack Park and what appears to be an ongoing resistance by the…
By Dave Gibson, Managing Partner Adirondack Wild. Adirondack Park within NYS Climate Strategies – Barely Mentioned It is in Chapter 19 of the NYS Climate Action Council’s Draft Scoping Plan, the chapter on “Land Use,” that I expected the words “Adirondack” or “Adirondack Park” or “Adirondack Park Agency” to get some focused attention. I was…
For Immediate ReleaseMarch 30, 2022 Contact: David Gibson518-469-4081 Adirondack Wild Hails Vote for Smarter Development The nonprofit advocate Adirondack Wild: Friends of the Forest Preserve hailed yesterday’s vote in the NYS Assembly in favor of an act to preserve ecological integrity, wildlife and open space in the Adirondack Park. The bill was sponsored by…
By Dave Gibson, Managing Partner Adirondack Wild. Paul Schaefer and the making of an Adirondack map The Association for the Protection of the Adirondacks had hired me the previous winter. It was now the spring of 1987. Windows and doors were again opening to the hope and then the reality of spring’s warmth. The director…
The Hon. Kathy Hochul, GovernorState of New YorkExecutive ChamberState CapitolAlbany, NY 12224 Re. Round Goby Threat to Lake Champlain Dear Governor, Adirondack Wild wishes to join the Adirondack and New York Nature Conservancy, the Lake Champlain Basin Program, the Essex County Board of Supervisors, and many other stakeholders in asking that the Canal Corporation issue…
John BurthEnforcement UnitNYS Adirondack Park AgencyP.O. Box 99Ray Brook, NY 12977 Re. Erosion and Sedimentation into Streams, Woodward Lake Properties Dear John: I write to call the Agency’s attention to an apparent and concerning lack of any basic erosion and sediment control practices at the Woodward Lake subdivision on Collins-Gifford Valley Road in Northhampton. Driving…
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).…