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. There it…
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High Peaks Wilderness Gateway
This proposal is a companion piece to the Adirondack Wilderness Advocates’ proposal for a true Wilderness classification for the Boreas Ponds Tract with Gulf Brook Road closed at the gate. …
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Millennials Stand Up For Wilderness
For More Information: [email protected] 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…
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Economic Benefits of Wilderness
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…
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Four Minutes
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…
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Truth About Age, Ability, Access and Wilderness
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…
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Support for Adirondack Wilderness Abounds
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…
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Adirondack Roots, A Voice for Wilderness from Afar
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,…
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A Perspective from the High Peaks
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…
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Conserving Brook Trout on the Boreas Ponds Tract
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%…
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Adirondack Wilderness Advocates Calls for Rejection of the APA’s DSEIS for the Boreas Ponds Tract
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…
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The Case for a Wild Boreas
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…
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