Remembering an Adirondack legend
By Tim Rowland
September 13, 2021
Richard Persico led the Adirondack Park Agency through its tumultuous early years
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A park like no other
April 18, 2021
Decades of experience suggest the state needs to do more to protect shorelines, uplands, and the privately owned backcountry
Regulators and Rebels pt 7: The push for a plan
April 12, 2021
As the APA worked to develop its land use plan, backlash against agency continued to grow
Regulators and Rebels pt 6: Big project, small budget
April 9, 2021
The APA had a big goal and a small budget. They had a little over a year to write two huge land use plans.
Regulators and Rebels pt 4: The opportunity of a lifetime
April 5, 2021
How George Davis and other environmentalists took over the Temporary Study Commission on the Future of the Adirondacks.
Regulators and Rebels pt 3: Adirondack National Park?
April 2, 2021
Adirondack Park as a national park? The idea proposed by a Rockefeller in the late 1960s achieved consensus: Everyone hated it.
Regulators and Rebels pt 2: Clarence Petty’s surveys
March 31, 2021
Clarence Petty and Neil Stout’s Adirondacks survey work laid the foundation for the State Land Master Plan.
Regulators and Rebels: Tempers flared at Adirondack Park Agency’s birth
March 29, 2021
This is the first story in an nine-part series about the roots of the Adirondack Park Agency, which marks its 50th anniversary in June.