Adirondack Council News Archive

SARANAC LAKE, N.Y. -- Water quality and wildlife habitat are being damaged needlessly in the largest park in the contiguous United States, because New York State is the heaviest user of road salt in the nation, said the Adirondack Council and AdkAction.org.

Motorists traveling through the Adirondack Park are accustomed to seeing brown, rustic-style guide rails protecting them from going off the road.

ALBANY -- There is a fight going on in the Adirondacks. Like a lot of fights, it is over land -- in this case, about 65,000 acres of remote forest, lakes, waterfalls and rivers, most of which have gone unseen…

ALBANY, NY -- In response to New Jersey Governor Chris Christie's announcement today that he would like to pull the Garden State out of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, several of New York's environmental and energy groups issued the following statement.

Threat of New Rule has Spurred Plans to Close Some of Nation's Dirtiest, Coal-Fired Power Plants & Replace Them as Congress, Clean Air Act, had Intended

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There has been a building binge going on in the Adirondacks. It is not of luxury second homes, but of something much less visible -- unless you are looking for bars showing coverage on a mobile telephone.

The closing of the final three quarters of a mile of West River Road in the town of Wells seemed to be an urgent state goal in 2006, and bitter debate between state and local officials ended only when they…

Last week's press reports regarding the Adirondack Council's expert witness, landscape architect Harry Dodson, are misguided attempts to distort the adjudicatory hearing record and obscure the real issues surrounding testimony of last week.

State Assemblyman Tony Jordan, R-Jackson, is preparing to introduce legislation to allow maple syrup producers to tap trees on state-owned land, with revenue from the leases going to expand agricultural conservation easement programs.

RAY BROOK - Green groups and Adirondack Club and Resort developers continued all day Thursday to battle over the Adirondack Council's alternative plans for the project.

RAY BROOK - Alternative designs an environmental group presented Tuesday for the Adirondack Club and Resort would not be approvable under state Adirondack Park Agency guidelines, according to a witness for the developers.

As the debate over the Adirondack Club & Resort marches on during public hearings at the state Adirondack Park Agency this week, participants continue to differ drastically on how the largest resort proposal in the history of the Adirondacks should…

Witnesses hired by an environmental group testified during a state Adirondack Park Agency hearing Tuesday that a large resort planned for Tupper Lake should be redesigned.

RAY BROOK - Expert witnesses for the Adirondack Council presented alternative plans Tuesday for the Adirondack Club and Resort that they called more viable than the plans on the table at an adjudicatory hearing this week and next.

Adirondack Park & Catskill Park Both Record Moderate Population Increases in Contrast to Other Strictly Rural Areas of the State, Whose Populations Declined

Outrageous Demands by Project Boosters Only Strengthen Organization's Resolve to Remain an Active Participant in Formal Public Hearing

Review Board Misused its Position as Watchdog of Adirondack Park Agency to Attack Department of Environmental Conservation, Land Purchase Agreement & The Nature Conservancy

Experts from CT Male on Water/Sewer Engineering, Dodson & Lacy on Development Patterns, plus Wildlife Conservation Society on Forests and Habitat

Adirondack Council to "Retire" the Pollution Allowances to Prevent Them From Being Used by Coal-Fired Power Plants to Worsen Acid Rain & Smog