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Court Strikes Down Lower Saranac Lake Marina Permit Issued by APA

March 8, 2023 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Upper Saranac LakeThe Appellate Division, Third Department has issued a unanimous ruling annulling a permit issued by the Adirondack Park Agency (APA) for a large-scale expansion of a commercial marina on Lower Saranac Lake in the Adirondack Park.

The decision in Thomas Jorling vs Adirondack Park Agency, et. al. reverses a lower court decision issued by State Supreme Court. [Read more…] about Court Strikes Down Lower Saranac Lake Marina Permit Issued by APA

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Nature, Recreation Tagged With: Adirondacks, APA, boating, development, Lower Saranac Lake, Protect the Adirondacks, Saranac Lakes Wild Forest

Did Covid Reshape Adirondack and NYS School Enrollments?

February 16, 2023 by Peter Bauer Leave a Comment

Enrollment Change 2017-2022The answer appears to be not so much. School district enrollment trends in New York State have been consistent for the last few decades, and an assessment of enrollment numbers over the last five years doesn’t show a big or lasting change to these trends.

Here’s an analysis: [Read more…] about Did Covid Reshape Adirondack and NYS School Enrollments?

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, New York City Tagged With: 2020 Census, Adirondacks, Clinton County, covid, Demographics, Education, Essex County, Franklin County, Fulton County, Hamilton County, Herkimer COunty, Lake Placid, New York City, politics, Protect the Adirondacks, Warren County

Protect the Adirondacks Names Claudia Braymer Deputy Director

February 1, 2023 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Protect the AdirondacksProtect the Adirondacks has announced that Claudia Braymer, an environmental attorney and local government official from Glens Falls, New York, has joined the organization as its new Deputy Director. Braymer is an attorney who has worked on environmental cases across New York State and was co-counsel on Protect the Adirondacks’ successful lawsuit that upheld and defended the Forever Wild clause in the State Constitution in 2021. She also serves as a Supervisor, elected from the City of Glens Falls, on the Warren County Board of Supervisors. [Read more…] about Protect the Adirondacks Names Claudia Braymer Deputy Director

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Nature Tagged With: Protect the Adirondacks

DEC & APA Defy The Courts And Keep Unconstitutional Trails Open

January 23, 2023 by Peter Bauer 1 Comment

Seventh-Lake-Mountain-Trail-2022-4 It’s been nearly two years since the New York Court of Appeals, the State’s highest court, ruled that extra-wide Class II Community Connector Snowmobile Trails designed, approved, and constructed by the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) and the Adirondack Park Agency (APA) violate Article 14, Section 1, of the New York State Constitution, the famed the “Forever Wild” clause.

The high court’s decision followed a decision in 2019 by the Appellate Division, Third Department, that Class II trails violate Article 14. The Court of Appeals decision came out in May 2021 and we’re now into our second winter where the DEC and APA continue to operate unconstitutional Class II trails as if the courts have not ruled against them. Protect the Adirondacks is now back in court in an effort to get the state to comply with the appellate court decisions. [Read more…] about DEC & APA Defy The Courts And Keep Unconstitutional Trails Open

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Nature, Recreation Tagged With: APA, DEC, Forest Preserve, Legal History, Protect the Adirondacks, snowmobiling, trails

10 Organizations Unite to Call for Adirondack Investments

December 23, 2022 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Entering Adirondack Park sign photo credit, Eric Meier;A coalition of 10 conservation and educational organizations has sent a letter to New York State Governor Kathy Hochul urging her upcoming State of the State message and Executive Budget proposal to advance investments and strengthened policies to improve the protection and management of the Adirondack Park. [Read more…] about 10 Organizations Unite to Call for Adirondack Investments

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Nature, Recreation Tagged With: Adirondack Council, Adirondack Experience, Adirondack Wild, Adirondack Wilderness Advocates, Adirondacks, Citizens Campaign for the Environment, conservation, Environmental Advocates of NY, Environmental Protection Fund, Forest Preserve, Invasive Species, Kathy Hochul, nature, New York League of Conservation Voters, NYS Budget, politics, Protect the Adirondacks, Sierra Club, WE ACT for Environmental Justice, Wildlife

Peter Bauer: Lame, Tired, And Wrong Blame-The-Adirondack Park Editorializing Persists

November 29, 2022 by Peter Bauer 1 Comment

AA-2020-NYS-Census-Map In the Adirondacks, I thought we had moved beyond weak economic and social analysis that blames the Adirondack Park for all of the problems and challenges facing Adirondack communities.

I thought that many in the Adirondacks had looked at long-term national rural population and economic trends and learned that the issues facing Adirondack communities are the same issues facing Rural America – and that the first decades of the 21st Century in the U.S. have proved extremely difficult and challenging times for Rural America. [Read more…] about Peter Bauer: Lame, Tired, And Wrong Blame-The-Adirondack Park Editorializing Persists

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, History, Nature Tagged With: Adirondacks, Demographics, Economic History, Forest Preserve, Protect the Adirondacks

Advocates: Adirondack Park Agency Should Comply With State Climate Goals

November 1, 2022 by Editorial Staff 1 Comment

Protect the AdirondacksProtect the Adirondacks (PROTECT) has called upon the Adirondack Park Agency (APA) to include, as part of its permit application review, an evaluation of the direct and upstream greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated with the large-scale subdivision and resort complex proposed by Eric Stackman in the Town of Jay, Essex County.

This project is currently under review and does not have a complete application. The APA has issued two Notices of Incomplete Application to the developer. [Read more…] about Advocates: Adirondack Park Agency Should Comply With State Climate Goals

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Nature Tagged With: Adirondacks, APA, Climate Change, development, Environmental History, nature, Protect the Adirondacks

Peter Bauer: Important NYS Forest Preserve Management Reforms

October 6, 2022 by Peter Bauer Leave a Comment

NYSDEC Trail Work2022 may end up as the year some of the most important reforms in New York State Forest Preserve management were started, both in practice and in theory.

Forest Preserve management reform has been a long time coming as the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC), which is responsible for the care and custody of the Forest Preserve, has struggled for years with how to improve its overall management program.

Small changes have been attempted at various points, but no major reforms have been successfully brought to the DEC’s Forest Preserve management. [Read more…] about Peter Bauer: Important NYS Forest Preserve Management Reforms

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, History, Hudson Valley - Catskills, Nature, Recreation Tagged With: Adirondacks, APA, Article 14, Catskills, DEC, development, Environmental History, Forest Preserve, Legal History, nature, Protect the Adirondacks, snowmobiling, wilderness

38 Groups Call On DEC To Protect Wolves in New York State

September 21, 2022 by Peter Bauer Leave a Comment

wolf courtesy Oregon Department of Fish and WildlifeThe plot continues to thicken around the killing of an 85-pound wolf near Cooperstown in December of 2021 and the response by the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC).

Under state and federal law, a wolf that wanders into New York State is protected under the Endangered Species Act. The wolf shot near Cooperstown by a coyote hunter clearly enjoyed no such protections. [Read more…] about 38 Groups Call On DEC To Protect Wolves in New York State

Filed Under: Nature, Western NY Tagged With: Cooperstown, coyotes, DEC, endangered species, hunting, nature, Otsego County, Protect the Adirondacks, trapping, Wildlife, wolves

Forest Preserve Decision Has Far-Reaching Implications Beyond Tree Cutting

June 19, 2022 by Peter Bauer Leave a Comment

Canopy by Peter BauerRecent pieces in the Adirondack Explorer (see here and here) have attempted to assess the implications of the decision by New York State’s highest court in Protect the Adirondacks v Department of Environmental Conservation and Adirondack Park Agency.

The Court of Appeals found that these state agencies violated the state constitution in their efforts to build a network of new extra-wide snowmobile trails in the Adirondack Forest Preserve. These commenters have derided the decision because they say it’s focused on tree cutting, which they argue is a poor standard to evaluate the constitutionality of management actions by state agencies under Article 14, Section 1, the Forever Wild Clause. [Read more…] about Forest Preserve Decision Has Far-Reaching Implications Beyond Tree Cutting

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Nature Tagged With: Adirondacks, Article 14, Environmental History, Forest Preserve, Legal History, Logging, nature, Protect the Adirondacks, trees

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