A Call to Action – If Not You, Who?!?
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Why are we attracted to the backcountry? Some go there for exercise and recreation. Others go to take pictures and to breathe the fresh air. But I don’t believe our…
Adirondack Love Affair
Although I have lived in the Adirondack Park for the last 5 years, my love affair with the Adirondacks goes much further back than that. I have been coming to…
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?! While comparable in distance to traveling to Lake Colden in…
The Road to Recovery
My name is Janelle, and I am a wilderness advocate. If anyone knows anything about me it’s that I love wild nature. I love everything about it: from the tops…
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…
Diminishing Wilderness Protection
As an Adirondack resident who moved to the park to have a more quiet lifestyle, wilderness advocacy is something I am passionate about. It is my belief that it is…
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…
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. …
Millennials Stand Up For Wilderness
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
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
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
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…