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Adirondack Wild Hails Vote for Conservation Development Bill

April 1, 2022 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

NYS CapitalThe nonprofit advocate Adirondack Wild: Friends of the Forest Preserve hailed this week’s vote on a bill in the NYS Assembly in favor of an act requiring conservation subdivision design. Advocates say the bill will “preserve ecological integrity, wildlife and open space in the Adirondack Park.”

The bill was sponsored by Assembly Member and Environmental Conservation Committee Chair Steve Englebright. It has an identical or companion bill pending before the State Senate. [Read more…] about Adirondack Wild Hails Vote for Conservation Development Bill

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, History, Nature Tagged With: Adirondack Park, Adirondack Wild, Adirondacks

David Gibson: In Adirondack Common Cause

December 27, 2021 by David Gibson 2 Comments

Coalition advocating at the State Capitol for full and fair Forest Preserve taxation, March 12 2018 photo courtesy Jim McKenna, Lake PlacidAdirondack Wild and I have been among those who have heralded the NYS Court of Appeals ruling in May that the only way for the Department of Environmental Conservation to construct snowmobile community connector trails in the Adirondack and Catskill Forest Preserve was through a constitutional amendment.

Protect the Adirondacks lawsuit had taken seven years to reach that court. New York’s high court decision upheld the NYS Constitution’s clause that “the lands of the state…shall be forever kept as wild forest land.” New York State, said the court in so many words, lacked the authority to essentially amend the constitution by administrative fiat. Only the people can do that. We joined Protect in celebrating the most important high court decision affecting the Forest Preserve in 90 years. [Read more…] about David Gibson: In Adirondack Common Cause

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Capital-Saratoga, Hudson Valley - Catskills, Nature, Recreation Tagged With: Adirondack Park, Adirondack Wild, Catskills, Environmental History, Forest Preserve, Political History, Protect the Adirondacks

Adirondack Wild Announces 2021 Award Recipients, Annual Meeting

September 20, 2021 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Tannery Pond Community Center provided by Adirondack WildAdirondack Wild: Friends of the Forest Preserve will hold its 11th Annual Membership Meeting on Friday, September 24th at Tannery Pond Community Center in North Creek, focusing on the current state of the Adirondack Park Agency at 50 Years (1971-2021) and reimagining the APA in the next 50 years. [Read more…] about Adirondack Wild Announces 2021 Award Recipients, Annual Meeting

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Events Tagged With: Adirondack Wild

Dedicated Forest Ranger Academy Announced

June 17, 2021 by Editorial Staff 2 Comments

Forest Ranger truck provided by Adirondack WildFor the first time, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Forest Ranger training will be held at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY-ESF) campus in the hamlet of Wanakena in the Adirondacks.

For decades, Forest Ranger recruits have had to share a training academy with Environmental Conservation Office recruits, where law enforcement and policing became the training emphasis. The two positions are very related, but also very distinct. [Read more…] about Dedicated Forest Ranger Academy Announced

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Nature, Recreation Tagged With: Adirondack Park, Adirondack Wild, DEC, Forest Preserve, Forest Rangers, Search and Rescue, Tourism

Seven Years Later Arbor Day Efforts Yield Results

April 29, 2021 by David Gibson Leave a Comment

Brother Yusuf BurgessApril 30th, 2021 is Arbor Day. On Arbor Day 2012, NYS DEC Forest Rangers and Foresters had recruited us to help plant young potted and bare root trees on an eroding section of Adirondack Forest Preserve south of Warrensburg in what was then known as the Hudson River Recreation Area. The saplings had come from the DEC Saratoga Tree Nursery. [Read more…] about Seven Years Later Arbor Day Efforts Yield Results

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Nature Tagged With: Adirondack Wild, Albany, DEC, Environmental History, Forest Rangers, Hudson River, Hudson River Recreation Area, nature, Saratoga Tree Nursery, Tivoli Lake Preserve, Warrensburg

Chad P. Dawson Joins Adirondack Wild Board

March 3, 2021 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

adirondack wildDr. Chad P. Dawson, formerly a member of the NYS Adirondack Park Agency from 2016 until December 2020, has been elected to Adirondack Wild’s Board of Directors.

Adirondack Wild: Friends of the Forest Preserve is a not-for-profit membership organization which acts on behalf of public wilderness and embraces wild land values and stewardship on both public and private lands. [Read more…] about Chad P. Dawson Joins Adirondack Wild Board

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Capital-Saratoga, Nature, Recreation Tagged With: Adirondack Park, Adirondack Wild

Adirondack Diversity Director Receives Stewardship Award

December 8, 2020 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Dave Gibson presents Wild Stewardship Recognition to Nicky Hylton-PattersonAdirondack Wild: Friends of the Forest Preserve has awarded Nicole “Nicky”’ Hylton-Patterson, the executive director of the Adirondack Diversity Initiative, their 2020 Wild Stewardship Award in recognition of her initiating and elevating difficult conversations about race, shared power, and influence in the Adirondack region over the past year. [Read more…] about Adirondack Diversity Director Receives Stewardship Award

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY Tagged With: Adirondack Diversity Initiative, Adirondack Wild, diversity

Adirondack Wild Presents 2020 Wilderness Award

November 19, 2020 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Kevin Chlad receives the 2020 Paul Schaefer Wilderness AwardAdirondack Wild: Friends of the Forest Preserve has presented its 2020 Paul Schaefer Wilderness Award, the organization’s highest honor, to Kevin Chlad, Director of Government Relations for the Adirondack Council with offices in Elizabethtown and in Albany. [Read more…] about Adirondack Wild Presents 2020 Wilderness Award

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Capital-Saratoga, History, Nature, Recreation Tagged With: Adirondack Council, Adirondack Park, Adirondack Wild, Forest Preserve, High Peaks, Kelly Adirondack Center, wilderness

Adk Wild: DEC Should Test High Peaks Online Permit System

October 13, 2020 by Editorial Staff 1 Comment

Crowded conditions along Rte. 73, High Peaks Wilderness region. Photo by Ken RimanyThis 2020 Columbus Day Weekend, peak use of parts of the High Peaks and Giant Mountain Wilderness areas in the Adirondack Park have again be exceeded.

Now is the time to consider a permit reservation or limited entry system for key points of entry into these wilderness areas as necessary, helpful, practical, and practicable, says Adirondack Wild: Friends of the Forest Preserve. [Read more…] about Adk Wild: DEC Should Test High Peaks Online Permit System

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Nature, Recreation Tagged With: Adirondack Wild, camping, DEC, High Peaks, hiking, Overuse, Tourism

Adirondack Park Developer Rejects Conservation Design

July 16, 2020 by David Gibson 1 Comment

marsh at north end of Woodward Lake taken from the roadEven during the summer’s pandemic, development submittals to the Adirondack Park Agency (APA), which oversees land use in the Adirondack Park, have not slowed very much.

Case in point: the proposed developer of Woodward Lake in Fulton County has submitted additional information to the APA this month of July. The Agency has issued multiple requests for additional information since the applicant, New York Land and Lakes LLC of Oneonta, first submitted an application in 2018. Their plan is to subdivide an undeveloped 1,100-acre lake and forest near Northville in the Adirondack Park into 37 second home lots, driveways and onsite septic. There is no public water or sewer here and the applicant proposes none. [Read more…] about Adirondack Park Developer Rejects Conservation Design

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Nature, Recreation Tagged With: Adirondack Park, Adirondack Wild, APA, development, Fulton County

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