Adirondack Wild’s 16th Annual Membership Meeting

Saturday, October 24, 2026 – 11:00 – 3:30 PM

The Wild Center, 45 Museum Drive, Tupper Lake, NY 12986

The wild Center overhead view of walkway over the tree tops of a forest

Wild Center in Tupper Lake

Please join Adirondack Wild on Saturday, October 24, 2026 as we share our work for the protection and stewardship of wilderness and wild lands of the Adirondack Park through advocacy and education. Adirondack Wild’s  16th Annual Membership Meeting begins at 11 AM on Saturday 10/24 at The Wild Center, Tupper Lake, NY, highlighted by our 2026 Awards Program.

Wild Stewardship Award

  • we are honored to help celebrate the Wild Center’s 20th anniversary by presenting our Wild Stewardship Award to Wild Center Founder Betsy Lowe, and Wild Center Executive Director Stephanie Ratcliffe. Please join us to celebrate and thank Betsy and Stephanie for all they have done to open imaginative minds and hearts around the world to the wild Adirondacks.

Paul Schaefer Wilderness Award

  • our highest honor will be presented to former DEC commissioner Joe Martens and Adirondack Land Trust executive director Mike Carr for all they have done for Adirondack land and water conservation. Please help us celebrate these remarkable Adirondack conservation leaders.

Champion of the Forest Preserve Award

  • two determined, accomplished attorneys who over the course of many years have helped Adirondack and Catskill advocates to uphold legal and constitutional protection of the Forest Preserve, Phil Gitlen, and Todd Ommen, are this year’s Champions of the Forest Preserve.

Our meeting is FREE, open to the public – and to you and to your friends and family as well.

Please bring your own brown bag lunch; we will be providing refreshments.

REGISTRATION: Please R.S.V.P. by or before Friday October 16, 2026
to Ken Rimany: [email protected]

Thank you for coming to Old Forge and being on the Wild’s Side with us!