Wild Thoughts – Page 10 – Adirondack Wilderness Advocates

Millennials Stand Up For Wilderness

November 24, 2016

For More Information: contact@adirondackwilderness.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – November 22, 2016 Young Adirondack Park Residents Are Standing Up and Speaking for Wilderness at APA Hearings Members of the Millennial Generation…

Economic Benefits of Wilderness

November 23, 2016

Pete Nelson

Knowledge

AWA’s position on the benefits of Wilderness areas to local communities is strongly supported by ongoing research from academic institutions, economics think tanks and others. Headwaters Economics, a non-partisan economics…

Four Minutes

November 21, 2016

Bill Ingersoll

Enjoyment

Blue Ridge Wilderness

I hold the lighter to the rim of the stove, and a flame leaps to life. It is faintly blue at first, and then dingy yellow-orange as it bursts up…

Truth About Age, Ability, Access and Wilderness

November 20, 2016

Pete Nelson

Enjoyment, Protection

Boreas Ponds

One of the points made repeatedly by those who want to see motorized access to the Boreas Ponds Tract is that “elderly and disabled” people should have access to the…

Support for Adirondack Wilderness Abounds

November 15, 2016

Brendan Wiltse

Expansion, Protection

Boreas Ponds

The birth of an idea Bill, Pete, and I met for the first time on a hike up Ragged Mountain on the Boreas Ponds tract. We were drawn together over…

Adirondack Roots, A Voice for Wilderness from Afar

November 2, 2016

Jacqueline Keating

Protection

I was sure it was over, I was done. The winds had picked up out of nowhere, I had lost control and simply didn’t possess the strength to regain it,…

A Perspective from the High Peaks

October 27, 2016

Tyra Olstad

Enjoyment

High Peaks Wilderness

By all accounts, it takes effort to get to the summit of Mt. Marcy. Even the easiest route to the top of New York State demands an exhausting climb up…

Conserving Brook Trout on the Boreas Ponds Tract

October 16, 2016

Brendan Wiltse

Knowledge

Boreas Ponds

Brook trout are a species of greatest conservation need in New York State and face challenges throughout their native range1. Intact stream populations of brook trout exist in only 9%…

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

October 10, 2016

Adirondack Wilderness Advocates

Expansion, News, Protection

Boreas Ponds

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, Tuesday, October 11, 2016 SARANAC LAKE, N.Y. – Adirondack Wilderness Advocates (AWA) today called for the rejection of the 2016 Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (DSEIS) just…

The Case for a Wild Boreas

September 20, 2016

Bill Ingersoll

Expansion, Protection

Boreas Ponds

When I began to explore the Adirondack Forest Preserve as a young adult in the 1990s, the Wilderness and Wild Forest areas had already been established two decades before my…

Millennials Stand Up For Wilderness

Economic Benefits of Wilderness

Four Minutes

Truth About Age, Ability, Access and Wilderness

Support for Adirondack Wilderness Abounds

Adirondack Roots, A Voice for Wilderness from Afar

A Perspective from the High Peaks

Conserving Brook Trout on the Boreas Ponds Tract

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

The Case for a Wild Boreas

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