After a 3-year project with Adirondack Council, Julia Goren returns to Adirondack Mountain Club as the new deputy...
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Cuomo’s work in the Adirondacks included both substantial purchases that expanded the public forest preserve and a thwarted effort to expanded motorized use on some of those lands.
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Recent NYS DEC Forest Ranger actions
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