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Adirondack North Country Association
It works to bring about sustainable economic development across the Adirondack North Country. It works to bring about sustainable economic development across the Adirondack North Country. It works to bring about sustainable economic development across the Adirondack North Country.

Adirondack.net
Adirondack.net is an online guide to the Adirondack Mountains for vacationers, residents, and anyone who calls the Adirondacks home

Adirondack Mountain Club
The Adirondack Mountain Club (ADK) is a nonprofit membership organization that protects wild lands and waters through a balanced approach of conservation and advocacy, environmental education, and responsible recreation.

Adirondack Museum Acid Rain Website
This web site hopes to bring current research concerning acid rain to a wider public.

1Sky
1Sky brings people together to help push elected officials work to fight global climate change.

350.org
350.org is building a global grassroots movement to solve the climate crisis. Our online campaigns, grassroots organizing, and mass public actions are led from the bottom up by thousands of volunteer organizers in over 188 countries

Adirondack Adaptive Adventures
Adirondack Adaptive Adventures works to enhance the lives of people with disabilities and their families through adaptive adventure recreation.

Adirondack Ecological Center (AEC)
The Adirondack Ecological Center (AEC) is the leader in ecological sciences in the Adirondack Mountains of northern New York and a major contributor to the science internationally. The AEC provides the science that underpins the management of Adirondack Park as one of the world's foremost experiments in conservation and sustainability.

Adirondack Explorer
The Adirondack Explorer is a nonprofit magazine supported by contributors, readers, and advertisers, and devoted to exploring, protecting, and unifying the Adirondack Park.

Adirondack Harvest
Adirondack Harvest is a community organization formed out of concern for the loss and abandonment of farmland in the Adirondacks. Our goals are to increase opportunities for profitable, sustainable production and sale of high quality food and agricultural products, and to expand consumer choices for locally produced healthy food.

Adirondack Park Invasive Plant Program (APIPP)
The Adirondack Park Invasive Plant Program's (APIPP) mission is to protect the Adirondack region from the negative impacts of nonnative invasive species. The program coordinates two projects: the Aquatic Invasive Species Project and the Terrestrial Invasive Species Project.

Adirondack Regional Tourism Council
Adirondack Regional Tourism Council provides tourism information to visitors.

Adirondack Research Consortium
The Adirondack Research Consortium (ARC) was founded to bring together scientists from research organizations and people who work to make the Park a better place, such as business owners, local and State governments, private land managers, farmers, foresters, teachers, and interested citizens. We partner researchers with decision-makers to make sure good science is being used to answer real questions.

Adirondack Wild: Friends of the Forest Preserve
The mission of Adirondack Wild: Friends of the Forest Preserve is to advance New York’s ‘Forever Wild’ legacy and Forest Preserve policies in the Adirondack and Catskill Parks, and promote public and private land stewardship that is consistent with wild land values through education, advocacy and research.

Audubon New York
Audubon's mission is to conserve and restore natural ecosystems, focusing on birds, other wildlife, and their habitats for the benefit of humanity and the earth's biological diversity.

Center for Biological Diversity
The Center for Biological Diversity works through science, law and creative media to secure a future for all species, great or small, hovering on the brink of extinction.

Champlain Valley Conservation Partnership
The Champlain Valley Conservation Partnership (CVCP) is the program Champlain Area Trails (CATS) developed to connect people to to nature, conserve natural habitat and scenic vistas, and promote economic vitality. These actions advance a vision of New York's Champlain Valley where conserved forests and farmland surround vibrant hamlets with people hiking and skiing on a network of trails and using the communities’ products and services in ways that enhance local economies.

Citizens Campaign for the Environment (CCE)
Citizens Campaign for the Environment (CCE) works to build widespread citizen understanding and advocacy for policies and action designed to manage and protect interdependent land and water resources, wildlife and public health. CCE carries out this mission through public education, research, lobbying, organizing and public outreach.

Common Ground Coalition
Common Ground Coalition works to recognize the common good of the communities, residents, and resources of the Adirondack Park, not to further specific organizational, institutional, or individual agendas.

Department of Natural Resources – Cornell University
The Department of Natural Resources focuses on the interplay of the ecological and social sciences in fostering environmental sustainability.

Earth Share of New York
Earth Share of New York is more than 65 of the most effective environmental and conservation charities working to preserve and protect our environment - locally, regionally, nationally, and globally. It makes it easy for government organizations and corporations to help their employees preserve, protect, and defend the environment through expanded charitable giving campaigns at the workplace. Contact Earth Share today to see how you can bring Earth Share to your workplace!

Empire State Forest Products Association
The Empire State Forest Products Association (ESFPA) is a nonprofit organization for businesses and individuals, is dedicated to individuals. The Empire State Forest Products Association (ESFPA) is a nonprofit organization for businesses and individuals, The Empire State Forest Products Association (ESFPA) is a nonprofit organization for businesses and individuals.

Northern Forest Institute – SUNY ESF
The mission of the Northern Forest Institute is to advance knowledge and skills and to promote the leadership necessary for the stewardship of both the natural and designed environments in the Adirondacks and Northern Forest.

Empire State Future
The Empire State Future Coalition consists of local, regional, state, and national organizations and companies dedicated to smart growth and sustainable development.

Environmental Advocates
Environmental Advocates of New York's mission is to protect our air, land, water and wildlife and the health of all New Yorkers.

Keeping Track
Keeping Track is an organization devoted to providing technical training to professional biologists, citizen scientist volunteers, land trust officials and conservation planners.

Lake Champlain Basin Program
The Lake Champlain Basin Program (LCBP) works in partnership with government agencies from New York, Vermont, and Quebec, private organizations, local communities, and individuals to coordinate and fund efforts which benefit the Lake Champlain Basin's water quality, fisheries, wetlands, wildlife, recreation, and cultural resources.

Lake George Association
The Lake George Association (LGA) is the leading citizen group responsible for conserving Lake George. Established in 1885, the LGA is the oldest lake association in the nation. Over the years, our balanced approach to lake management has ensured the Lake's exceptional water quality, as well as the environmental and economic viability of the entire watershed.

Lake George Waterkeeper
The Fund for Lake George is a not-for-profit, privately funded organization dedicated to the protection of Lake George and its nine surrounding communities.

National Wildlife Federation
The National Wildlife Federation is America's largest conservation organization. We work with more than 4 million members, partners and supporters in communities across the country to protect and restore wildlife habitat, confront global warming and connect with nature.

Natural Resources Defense Council
NRDC is the nation's most effective environmental action group, combining the grassroots power of 1.3 million members and online activists with the courtroom clout and expertise of more than 350 lawyers, scientists and other professionals.

Nature Conservancy, Adirondack Chapter
The mission of The Nature Conservancy is to preserve the plants, animals and natural communities that represent the diversity of life on Earth by protecting the lands and waters they need to survive.

The Northern Forest Center
With partners across the region, the Northern Forest Center is creating a new generation of conservation tools that can provide economic incentives for good long-term forest stewardship while reinvigorating the economy.

Open Space Institute
The Open Space Institute (OSI) protects scenic, natural, and historic landscapes to ensure public enjoyment, conserve habitats, and sustain community character.

Orion Grassroots Network
Orion’s mission is to inform, inspire, and engage individuals and grassroots organizations in becoming a significant cultural force for healing nature and community.

RESTORE: The North Woods
RESTORE: The North Woods is providing leadership for positive change through three major campaigns: the creation of a 3.2-million-acre Maine Woods National Park; the recovery of the extirpated and imperiled wildlife, including the eastern timber wolf, Canada lynx, and Atlantic salmon; and the recovery and protection of wild forests in New England.

Sierra Club, Atlantic Chapter
Sierra Club Atlantic Chapter works on environmental issues across New York State.

Two Countries One Forest
Two Countries, One Forest is a major Canadian-U.S. collaborative of conservation organizations, researchers, foundations and conservation-minded individuals. Our international community is focused on protection, conservation and restoration of forests and natural heritage from New York to Nova Scotia, across the Northern Appalachian/Acadian ecoregion.

Upper Saranac Lake Foundation
The Upper Saranac Lake Foundation seeks to preserve, enhance and protect the natural beauties, environmental quality and recreational enjoyment of the Upper Saranac Lake region.

Wilderness Society
The Wilderness Society's mission is to protect wilderness and inspire Americans to care for our wild places.

Wildlands Network
The Wildlands Network wants future generations to inherit a continent rich in wildlife, with plenty of room for all species to roam.

Wildlife Conservation Society's Adirondack Communities & Conservation Program
Since the mid-1990s, WCS has worked to find common ground between local interest groups in the Adirondacks and to develop innovative conservation solutions that work for the region as a whole. Our goal is to ensure that Adirondack Park remains a resilient landscape where human and wildlife populations thrive across a patchwork of communities, forests, wetlands, mountains, and rivers.

State Government

New York State Assembly
The website of the New York State Assembly.

New York State Senate
The website of the New York State Senate.

The Adirondack Park Agency
The APA is a New York State government agency, consisting of approximately 56 staff and an eleven-member board. In 1971 the APA was created by the State Legislature to develop long-range land use plans for both public and private lands within the Adirondack Park.

The Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC)
The DEC's mission is to conserve, improve and protect New York's natural resources and environment and to prevent, abate and control water, land and air pollution, in order to enhance the health, safety and welfare of the people of the state and their overall economic and social well-being.

Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI)
The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) is the first market-based regulatory program in the United States to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Ten Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic states have capped and will reduce CO2 emissions from the power sector 10 percent by 2018.

Federal Government

The White House
The website of the White House.

US House of Representatives
The website of the United States House of the Representatives.

US Senate
The website of the United States Senate.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
The website of United States Environmental Protection Agency.

EPA Acid Rain Website
This website provides information about the causes and effects of acid rain, how we measure acid rain, and what is being done to reduce acid rain.

Forever Wild Partners

Cultural

Adirondack Theatre Festival
Adirondack Theatre Festival (ATF) is a professional not-for-profit summer theatre located in Glens Falls, NY. ATF strives to challenge, entertain, and nourish its audience through the development and production of new and contemporary musicals and plays.

Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts
The Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts is a multi-disciplinary arts center, serving over 2,000 square miles of the Adirondack Park. The Arts Center provides service to the non-profit field as a presenter, producer and educator in the artistic disciplines of visual arts, theater, music, dance, and film throughout the Adirondack region.

Lake Placid Center for the Arts
The Lake Placid Center for the Arts is a year-round performing and visual Arts Facility. It is dedicated to presenting and fostering quality arts, which inspire, enrich, educate and entertain people of all ages.

Pendragon Theatre
Pendragon Theatre is an ensemble of artists, based in the Adirondacks, dedicated to preserving the vitality and enhancing the quality of professional theatre through year-round performance and education programs.

Depot Theatre
The Depot Theatre is committed to providing professional theatre productions and outreach services to the Adirondack region and to creating a vibrant, nurturing artistic home for diverse theatre artists in which they can further develop their craft.

View
View is dedicated to making the visual and performing arts an integral and accessible part of the lives of residents and visitors of the Adirondacks, inspired by and reflecting the beauty of our natural environment.

Lodging

ACC Keene Farm, Inc.
The Keene Farm is located within the Adirondack Forest Reserve near Keene in northern New York State, USA, 160 km from Montreal, approximately 60km southwest of the city of Plattsburgh. Special for Adirondack Council members and supporters... For every overnight spent camping or at the hut, 50% of your cost will be donated to the Adirondack Council. (Cost is $12 camping/$25 hut pp). For reservations, visit: http://dev.accmontreal.ca/en/reservations

Elk Lake Lodge
Described by National Geographic as the “Jewel of the Adirondacks,” Elk Lake is the centerpiece of a 12,000 acre private forest preserve in the heart of the High Peaks. Its turn of the century lodge and lake front cottages offer spectacular mountain views.

Adirondack Country Inn
The Adirondack Country Inn is a chef/owner-operated facility that offers Bed & Breakfast lodging, cottages and a full menu dining room featuring Real Pit Southern BBQ and home cooking. Their secluded cottages have Adirondack style interiors with lake and mountain views. They are centrally located within the Adirondack Park, making day trips in any direction a pleasure.

Golden Arrow Lakeside Resort
Beautiful in a winter or summer setting, the Golden Arrow Lakeside Resort in the heart of Lake Placid boasts the best location in town. It has taken great steps to operate as a sustainable resort.

Irondequoit Inn 
The Irondequoit Inn is a 600-acre retreat situated on the northern end of Piseco Lake in the southern Adirondacks (Hamilton County).  It includes a mile of shoreline and a five-acre undeveloped island, a sandy beach for swimming or launching canoes or kayaks, and hiking trails through pristine mountain woodlands.  The Inn’s front porch provides scenic views of Oxbow, Rogers and Piseco Mountains.  Accommodations include the main lodge with guest rooms, cabins, and secluded campsites along the lake.  A relaxed and informal atmosphere where time moves at its own pace (there is no television but WiFi is available).

The Lodge on Lake Clear
The Lodge was voted #1 in "Best of the Mountains" Ambiance Category and Top 2 in Best Restaurants Category. Also recommended by The Discerning Travelers Adirondacks Guide.

Split Rock Lighthouse and Split Rock Farmhouse
There are places you go to find memories, and places you go to make them…two unique historic Adirondack properties available for rent…Split Rock Lighthouse and Split Rock Farmhouse, Essex, NY.

Camps

The Adirondack Camp
The Adirondack Camp is one of the original great traditional summer camps of North America – that remains to this day, after one hundred and six years, one of childhood's greatest treasures. Nestled into the bedrock shores of Lake George in Upstate NY, kids of all ages come from around the world to make really close friends, have outrageous fun, discover their true selves and have the summer of their lives.

Brant Lake Camp
At Brant Lake Camp, we enjoy more than a 90 year tradition, under one family ownership, as a top tier private resident camp for boys ages 7 through 15 with a strong sports component. But as you will find, we are also a whole lot more.

Camp Tree Tops
Located in the Adirondack mountains outside Lake Placid, NY, Treetops is a residential summer camp for boys and girls ages 8-14. Here children experience the natural world and an array of creative and challenging activities in a simple, unhurried, child-centered environment.

Other

Adirondacks.com
New York's premier award winning web site showcasing hundreds of exciting attractions throughout upstate New York and the neighboring region of Vermont's beautiful Lake Champlain Valley (as well as the Canadian border city of Montreal.)

Adirondack Farmers' Market Cooperative
Adirondack Farmers' Market Cooperative coordinates farmer's market around the Adirondacks.

Adirondack Living Show, LLC
A celebration of camps, Adirondack art, and rustic living.

Minnowbrook Conference Center
This unique twenty-eight acre retreat owned and operated by Syracuse University is a multiple building complex designed in rustic charm with modern amenities. Located on sparkling Blue Mountain Lake in the Adirondack Mountains of New York, this facility operates year round and can comfortably accommodate up to fifty-six overnight guests in our lodging quarters.