Lost in the Wilderness
For many people, time spent in the wilderness is bliss. It’s fulfilling. It’s all encompassing. But it also entails responsibility, both for ourselves and others.
Nighttime in the Afternoon: Planning for the Great Adirondack Eclipse
Get ready for a total solar eclipse in the Adirondacks.
AWA Co-organizing an Alpine Summit Adaptive Management Pilot
This project, The Alpine Summit Adaptive Management Pilot, will build off the work of the current Summit Stewardship Program in the Adirondack High Peaks.
Expertise and Adaptive Management for the High Peaks
AWA’s first order of business in serving on the High Peaks Advisory Group (HPAG) was to ensure that protection of the Wilderness was a paramount and inviolate principle. That was established early in our meetings and it is clearly stated in the HPAG’s Final Report. Now comes the hard part: how to protect and preserve that Wilderness in the face of massive surges in use and the increasing pressures of a changing world.
Leading with Principles
Read the report that came out of the High Peaks Strategic Planning Advisory Group (HPAG).
A Very Brief History of the High Peaks Wilderness
The history of the High Peaks Wilderness is as storied as it is rugged.
AWA Takes an Active Role in High Peaks Visitor Management
AWA is one of only three environmental advocacy organizations named to the High Peaks Strategic Planning Advisory Group (HPAG), which was formed in November.
Adirondack Explorer – It’s Debatable: No To Permits
The term “overuse” implies that we have too many people visiting the High Peaks. This term, while convenient and perhaps apt, greatly oversimplifies the problem and solution.
A Perspective from the High Peaks
I can’t speak for the thousands of others who trek into the heart of the High Peaks Wilderness each year, but I suspect that they venture into the forest and mountains seeking similar things—adventure, challenge, rediscovery of or reconnection with a place bigger and wilder than our individual lives.