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By Phil Brown
After hiking, biking, canoeing, and sailing 7,600 miles over 280 days, John Davis says the hard work has just begun. Davis resigned as the Adirondack Council’s conservation director last year to undertake TrekEast, a muscle-powered journey designed to draw attention to the need to protect wild lands in the eastern United States and Canada. He…
Despite ban, riders continue to abuse trails in the Forest Preserve, though the extent of the problem is debated. By Stephen Williams It’s a warm and sunny morning on the old dirt road between Harrisburg Lake and Wilcox Lake in Warren County, the sky above brilliant blue, the woods full of birdsong. A beautiful day…
Environmentalists say APA needs more authority to protect ridges and mountains from unsightly development. By Stephen Williams Conservation advocates are vowing to push state and local government leaders in the coming year to regulate development on ridges, slopes, and hilltops in the Adirondacks. The Adirondack Council and other environmental groups complain that communities such as…
DEC decision leaves observers wondering if Forest Preserve routes could be opened to motor vehicles. By Adam Federman Old roads run like fault lines through the Adirondack Park. Sources of conflict since the early 1900s, they have been at the heart of several land-use battles over the last two decades. Indeed, Crane Pond Road in…
By Phil Brown
On Tuesday, voters will be asked to approve the construction of a power line that’s already been built—through the forever-wild Forest Preserve in the northwestern Adirondacks. If Ballot Proposal One is approved, the state will cede to National Grid a two-mile strip, totaling six acres, along Route 56 where the line was built last year.…