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Defending ‘forever wild’: Adirondack Wild’s commitment to the Forest Preserve

By Gwendolyn Craig

Adirondack Wild serves in watchdog role

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Members and staff of the Adirondack Park Agency sit around a table listening to a presentation during the March 16, 2023 meeting in Ray Brook.

Top Adirondack Park Agency counsel to resign

By Gwendolyn Craig

With the APA in the midst of a half dozen or so court cases, including two new suits, its counsel has announced he is resigning.

APA board member Chad Dawson

Former APA board member Chad Dawson joins Adirondack Wild board

By Gwendolyn Craig

Chad Dawson, who resigned from the APA board last year, has a new role with Adirondack Wild: Friends of the Forest Preserve.

Adirondack advocates clash over lawsuit’s possible effects on trail work

By Gwendolyn Craig

The fate of Adirondack Forest Preserve trees and trails is on the line in an ongoing lawsuit that has divided environmental organizations.

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Forest preserve off the table for additional Army training, say ad hoc committee members

By Gwendolyn Craig

The U.S. Army at Fort Drum is revising its environmental assessment for additional training in the Adirondacks region.

Adirondack groups lobby for more park protections

By Gwendolyn Craig

Some of the lobbyists’ goals are to encourage lawmakers to change the draft 2021 budget for New York State. For example, no new forest rangers are listed in the state Department of Environmental Conservation’s proposal to add 47 new staff. The groups want more rangers.

High Court OKs snowmobile trail along wild section of Hudson River

By Brandon Loomis

Adirondack Wild and Protect the Adirondacks sued in 2016 to thwart a Department of Environmental Conservation plan to route a snowmobile trail across newly acquired state land between Indian Lake and Newcomb. The Adirondack Park Agency had signed off on the trail on Chain Lakes Road South, which passes within a half-mile of the Hudson River in a mile-long stretch where the river is designated “wild.”

Adirondack Wild questions bike trail work in Wilcox Lake Wild Forest

By Phil Brown

The environmental group Adirondack Wild is questioning the legality of work done this summer on a trail in the Wilcox Lake Wild Forest.

The park’s watchdogs: A guide to Adirondack environmental groups

By Brandon Loomis

A new group--Adirondack Wilderness Advocates--is seeking nonprofit status, raising the question of what niche it and several other Adirondack groups fill.

Albany’s rejection of Adirondack conservation bill disappoints environmentalists

By Brandon Loomis

Environmentalists have pressed for conservation standards since the Adirondack Park Agency approved the Adirondack Club and Resort in Tupper Lake—a major second-home project that they predict will amplify its effects by spreading them out.

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