Adirondack Wilderness Advocates 6/6/25 Adirondack Wilderness Advocates 6/6/25

In Wake of Whitney Park News, New York State Needs to Step Up

Adirondack Wilderness Advocates today called upon New York State to step up to ensure the best possible protection of what is one of the most significant wild parcels in private ownership in the Eastern United States.

Bill Ingersoll 3/28/23 Bill Ingersoll 3/28/23

A Road is a Road—Any Questions?

If a road leads into a wild forest, is it still a road?

Pete Nelson 12/1/21 Pete Nelson 12/1/21

Examining Hiker Dispersal: What’s Next

One of the issues AWA is working on is dispersal: the strategy of redirecting hikers from busier to lesser-used trailheads. We started with an informal survey sent to our supporters, to help us gain additional perspective on hikers’ views of dispersal. We learned quite a bit from the responses, and now we are working to incorporate a more formal investigation of dispersal as a part of coming adaptive management projects in the Adirondack Park.

Bill Ingersoll 10/19/20 Bill Ingersoll 10/19/20

The Future Forest

Everyone who loves the outdoors would lose if New York was unable to secure a purchase agreement, now or in the near future.

Bill Ingersoll 9/22/20 Bill Ingersoll 9/22/20

Roads of Recovery

Recent news that the remaining portion of Whitney Park, one of the last surviving private parks erected in the 1890s, is on the market has both intrigued me and disappointed me. On the one hand, I have been dreaming of exploring its woods and waters for twenty-two years; on the other, the current owner has expressed hostility to the idea of selling the land to the Forest Preserve.

Janelle Jones 1/29/18 Janelle Jones 1/29/18

2B or Not to Be

What’s next for Boreas Ponds?

Bill Ingersoll 1/13/18 Bill Ingersoll 1/13/18

Reaction to the Adirondack Park Agency’s Plan for Boreas Ponds

News that the Adirondack Park Agency plans to subvert another upcoming wilderness designation at Boreas Ponds with both motorized and mechanized access corridors is not just discouraging, it is frightening.

Janelle Jones 11/14/17 Janelle Jones 11/14/17

A Journey to Boreas Ponds

Our increasingly developed world is distancing us from nature, from our roots. Boreas Ponds offers us a chance to rekindle that relationship.

Adirondack Wilderness Advocates 11/2/17 Adirondack Wilderness Advocates 11/2/17

Advocate To Walk From Boreas Ponds To November APA Meeting With More Than 1,000 Letters Supporting Full Wilderness Classification

Adirondack Wilderness Advocates (AWA) today announced that Tyler Socash, AWA member and activist, will attend the Adirondack Park Agency’s next meeting on November 16th by walking all the way from the Boreas Ponds Tract to the APA’s Ray Brook headquarters.

Adirondack Wilderness Advocates 10/10/16 Adirondack Wilderness Advocates 10/10/16

Adirondack Wilderness Advocates Calls for Rejection of the APA’s DSEIS for the Boreas Ponds Tract

“To limit their thinking to only three similar alternatives for the most significant addition to the Forest Preserve in a century is unacceptable.”

Bill Ingersoll 9/20/16 Bill Ingersoll 9/20/16

The Case for Wild Boreas

Should the newly acquired Boreas Ponds tract be Wilderness? We think so!