New York state needs to step up in conserving Whitney Park
By Guest writer
Adirondack Wilderness Advocates urge conservation easements for Whitney estate
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Historic Adirondack property gets permanent protection from development
By Tim Rowland
Adirondack Land Trust, Paul Smith's College enter $4.1M easement agreement to protect 2,800 acres
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Barton Mines’ easement donation expands Gore Mountain trail network
By Mike Lynch
200-acre easement links North Creek Ski Bowl to Siamese Ponds Wilderness
Landowner closes road to Madawaska Flow
By Phil Brown
The logging road to Madawaska Flow and Quebec Brook, waterways acquired by the state in 1998, is closed to the public, the Adirondack Explorer has learned. I intended to drive to Madawaska on Sunday to take photos for a paddling guidebook and was surprised to find the gate locked. A sign indicated that the road…
Questions on easement deal
By Phil Brown
Neil Woodworth, executive director of the Adirondack Mountain Club, is not happy with the proposed modification of the easement agreement with Heartland Forestland Fund. (See previous two posts here and here.) Woodworth contends that the modification would weaken protection of the 110,000 acres covered by the easements by allowing hunting camps to remain, with members…
Proposed Forest Preserve addition
By Phil Brown
In a post yesterday, I reported that Heartland Forestland Fund would donate 2,661 acres to the state under a plan to modify a conservation-easement agreement in order to allow hunting camps to remain on timberlands in the northern Adirondacks. I now have a map of the lands in question, shown above. Most of the land…
New deal for hunters
By Phil Brown
When the state signed a deal a decade ago to protect 139,000 acres owned by Champion International, Adirondack residents complained that it called for the demolition of hunting camps that had been in use for many years. As a result, the state Department of Environmental Conservation is proposing to modify the deal to allow the…