A Call to Action – If Not You, Who?!?
Immersing oneself in Adirondack wildness is a quintessential spiritual experience. If you won’t advocate for wilderness protection, who will?
Adirondack Love Affair
I did not understand the impact the Adirondacks had on me until 5 years ago, when I was sick of my job working at a 7-11 in Buffalo, I decided to move to the place that I remembered being the happiest in my life.
The Sound of Silence
If you’re looking for a cross-country skiing destination this winter, might I suggest skiing Gulf Brook Road to Boreas Ponds?
The Road to Recovery
The amount of wilderness the world has lost over the last two decades is staggering — 10% in the last 20 years. Today, only 23% of the Earth’s surface is considered a true wilderness. How do we recover?
Coming to Understand the Boreas Ponds Debate
It has taken me many moons to develop my thoughts on the Boreas Ponds Tract, a large parcel of land within the Adirondack Park that was recently purchased by New York State.
An Unselfish Wilderness Advocate’s View
After attending APA public hearings and reading articles from Access the Adirondacks, I can’t help but question, “Am I the bad guy thinking the Boreas Ponds Tract should be a Full Wilderness area?”
Diminishing Wilderness Protection
Boreas Ponds reflects Wilderness. That is what we are arguing for.
South Pond
I might have abandoned the idea of reaching South Pond had I not caught a glimpse of it through the trees, right at that critical moment of decision.
Economic Benefits of Wilderness
Western counties containing wilderness areas outperform other rural counties, and further that there is a causal relationship between the appeal of wilderness and economic benefit.
Millennials Stand Up For Wilderness
Young Adirondack Park residents are standing up and speaking for Wilderness at APA hearings.
Four Minutes
It will take four minutes for the coffee to steep. A lot can happen in four minutes.
Truth About Age, Ability, Access and Wilderness
We must never forget that every person has the right to experience the grandeur of Adirondack Wilderness, including the Boreas Ponds Tract. There are a variety of ways to make that more possible without compromising Wilderness protection.
Support for Adirondack Wilderness Abounds: The Birth of an Idea
One of my personal goals with AWA was to engage those that have been left out of this process in the past and activate a voice that is rarely heard.
Adirondack Roots, A Voice for Wilderness from Afar
Get involved in Adirondack Wilderness advocacy!
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.
Conserving Brook Trout on the Boreas Ponds Tract
We should do what we can do protect brook trout on the new Boreas Ponds tract.
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.”
The Case for Wild Boreas
Should the newly acquired Boreas Ponds tract be Wilderness? We think so!