The Adirondack Council
is a not-for-profit environmental group that has been working
since 1975 to protect the open-space resources of New York State's
six-million-acre Adirondack
Park
and to help sustain the natural and human communities of the
region. Based in the Adirondacks with a second office in Albany,
the Adirondack Council has a staff of 15.
The Adirondack Council is the largest citizen environmental group
in New York State working full-time, on a daily basis in the
Adirondack Park, in the state capital and in Washington to preserve
this six-million-acre treasure. |
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The Council's
Park protection efforts include:
- Advocacy and
lobbying for land use planning and land protection.
- Research issues
that affect the ecology and economy of the Park.
- Public education
about the Park through the media and schools.
- Environmental
monitoring on the local, state, and national levels.
- Litigation,
when necessary.
Click
here to read the Council's strategic plan.
The Adirondack
Council works on every governmental level to gain land and water
protection funding. The Council:
- Helped gain
state legislative and voter approval of a $1.75 billion "Clean
Air, Clean Water" Bond Act.
- Works to ensure
that the New York State Legislature provides adequate funding
to New York's Environmental Protection Fund.
- Pushes Congress
to appropriate federal Land and Water Conservation Fund money
for land protection in New York.
- Presses for
changes to national clean air policy to give the Adirondacks
a chance to recover from the damage acid rain has caused and
is still causing.
The Adirondack
Council monitors development on private lands, ensures the mandated constitutional
protection of public
lands,
and "watchdogs" and advises the public agencies that
work within the Park. The Council keeps members up-to-date on
"goings-on" in the Adirondack Park through regular
newsletters, special publications - like our report on acid rain
"Acid
Rain - A Continuing National Tragedy" and action alerts on hot Adirondack issues. It also plans
for the future of the Adirondacks through public education, research
and policy analysis.
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