Pete Nelson
Pete is a teacher, writer, essayist, and activist whose work has appeared in a variety of Adirondack publications, and regularly in the Adirondack Almanack.
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Pete is a teacher, writer, essayist, and activist whose work has appeared in a variety of Adirondack publications, and regularly in the Adirondack Almanack.
Chair, Co-Founder
This lightly-visited tract may not have same cachet as the much larger Siamese Ponds, West Canada Lakes, or Five Ponds Wilderness areas (much less the High Peaks Wilderness), but its charms are equally alluring.
The redefinition of “motor vehicle” would fundamentally alter the traditional definition of Wilderness, which has always had the prohibition of motor vehicle access by the public as an essential tenet.
It has long been a characteristic of human societies that oppressed classes end up pitted against each other, as though one is the cause of the other’s oppression. When it comes to the matter of improved access to the Forest Preserve for those with disabilities, let’s not let it happen here in the Adirondacks.