Strengthening the APA: Water Quality, Part 3
By Phil Brown
Julie Regan of the Lake Tahoe Regional Planning Agency describes regulations that are restoring Lake Tahoe’s water quality.
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Strengthening the APA: Water Quality, Part 4
By Phil Brown
Panelists answer questions and elaborate on ways to improve water safeguards in the Adirondacks.
Strengthening the APA: Interview with Dan Stec
By Phil Brown
The New York State assemblyman says changes to APA law or regulations need local government support.
Strengthening the APA: Randall Arendt
By Phil Brown
The nationally recognized planning expert outlines the principles of “conservation development.”
Strengthening the APA: Conservation Development, Part 1
By Phil Brown
Michale Glennon on ecological surveys; Dave Cox on upland development; Dave Gibson on Adirondack examples; Carleton Montgomery on the New Jersey Pinelands regulations.
Strengthening the APA: Conservation Development, Part 2
By Phil Brown
Panelists field questions and elaborate on their experiences with conservation development.
Strengthening the APA: Voices of experience
By Phil Brown
Former agency leaders look to the future.
Strengthening the APA: Economic benefits
By Phil Brown
Adirondack Council Executive Director Willie Janeway argues that economic development and environmental preservation work together.
Outside Scoop: Public’s gain is clubs’ loss
By Fred LeBrun AS I WRITE THIS, the debate is continuing to rage over how much motorized access should be allowed on former Finch, Pruyn lands sold to the state, but regardless of the decision, the age of private hunting and fishing clubs on those lands is quietly drawing to a close. We’re in the…
Rafting the Hudson Gorge
By Phil Brown
Explorer Editor Phil Brown takes a head-cam video while riding through class III rapids in a ducky, or inflatable kayak.