For Immediate ReleaseOctober 17, 2022 Contact: David Gibson518-469-4081 or Ken Rimany, krimany@adirondackwild.org Area residents receive Adirondack Wild honors Paul Smith’s, NY – The nonprofit advocate Adirondack Wild: Friends of the Forest Preserve presented its annual awards at the Paul Smith’s College Visitor Interpretive Center on Friday, Oct. 14, 2022 Tracy Ormsbee, Publisher of Adirondack Explorer,…
For Immediate ReleaseOctober 5, 2022 Contact: David Gibson518-469-4081 or Ken Rimany, krimany@adirondackwild.org Adirondack Wild Honors former NYS DEC Forest Rangers and Adirondack Explorer Paul Smith’s, NY – The nonprofit advocate Adirondack Wild: Friends of the Forest Preserve presents its annual awards at a ceremony set for the afternoon of Friday, October 14, 2022, in the…
By David Gibson, Managing Partner, Adirondack Wild Another large resort subdivision. Still no conservation design. I just skimmed through Eric Stackman’s recent replies to the Adirondack Park Agency. See the APA website, apa.ny.gov, large-scale subdivisions. Mr. Stackman, a Miami, Florida developer, wants to construct a 120-lot resort subdivision in Jay, Essex County, above the East…
RE: December 2021 hunting incident of gray wolf underscores need for DEC to increase protections To: Commissioner Basil SeggosNew York Department of Environmental Conservation625 BroadwayAlbany, NY 12233-1010Via: Basil.Seggos@dec.ny.gov CC: DEC Wildlife Bureau (wildlife@dec.ny.gov)Assemblymember Steve Englegight, (EngleS@nyassembly.gov)Governor Kathy Hochul Dear Commissioner Seggos, In December 2021, a hunter in New York shot and killed a large…
For Immediate ReleaseSeptember 9, 2022 Contact: David Gibson518-469-4081 Adirondack Wild Meets at Paul Smith’s Visitor Interpretive Center. October 14 Meeting Open to the Public.2022 Wilderness and Wild Stewardship Awards announced. Paul Smith’s, NY – The nonprofit advocate Adirondack Wild: Friends of the Forest Preserve announces its Annual Meeting of Members and Friends will begin at…
By David Gibson, Managing Partner, Adirondack Wild An influential film highlighted Adirondack rivers As the Adirondacks celebrates the 50th anniversary of the nation’s Clean Water Act (1972-2022), I thought to thumb through a set of old reports to find out what the nonprofit advocate Association for the Protection of the Adirondacks was doing or thinking…
By David Gibson, Managing Partner, Adirondack Wild From the Mountain They Call Thunder’s Nest: An Adirondack poet Throughout our region author Sandra Weber appears in the summer to tell tales of Remarkable Women of the Adirondacks. One of the remarkable women she features is the “poet Jeanne Robert Foster.” Eileen Mach has similarly studied and expertly…
Re. Project 2021-0256, DEC, Wetland Impacts Along Multi-Use Trail David GibsonManaging PartnerAdirondack Wild: Friends of the Forest PreserveBallston Lake, NY 518-469-4081dgibson@adirondackwild.org Dear Mr. Haralson, Thanks to the Agency’s longstanding study and mapping of Adirondack watersheds and wetlands, the APA has applied a fine filter to the varied characteristics, classifications, and values of Park wetlands over…
Re. Deerwood Subdivision Tree Clearing, Lot 9 David GibsonManaging PartnerAdirondack Wild: Friends of the Forest PreserveBallston Lake, NY 518-469-4081dgibson@adirondackwild.org Dear Ms. Rice and Mr. Ernst, The undersigned organizations write out of concern for an anticipated future application to the APA from the owners of Lot # 9, Deerwood Subdivision, Upper Saranac Lake, to cut out…
By David Gibson, Managing Partner, Adirondack Wild More misinformation about APA formal hearings by Dave Gibson, Managing Partner, Adirondack Wild Reporter Megan Plete Postol reported on a recent judicial proceeding in Oneida County Supreme Court brought by Adirondack White Lake Association. The lawsuit was brought by neighbors of Red Rock Quarry, a proposed new granite quarry…