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Cuomo’s Divisive Adirondack Legacy

August 25, 2021
Bill Ingersoll
Opinion, Protection
Jay Mountain Wilderness, NYCO

The Adirondack legacy of former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is more than just a land acquisition and a failed snowmobile master plan. The one project that can be fully attributed to Cuomo involved a mine, a protected wilderness, and a highly controversial amendment to the state’s constitution that allowed one to gain access to the other.

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