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AWA Co-organizing an Alpine Summit Adaptive Management Pilot

April 29, 2021

AWA has achieved its first success in its initiative to help the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation implement the most important recommendations from the High Peaks Strategic Planning Advisory Group (HPAG) Final Report. …

AWA Selects New Leader

April 28, 2021

Adirondack Wilderness Advocates

News

At its spring 2021 quarterly meeting, which was held (remotely) in April, the Adirondack Wilderness Advocates board of directors held its first officer elections since incorporating as a 501(c)(3) organization…

What to Watch in the AMR’s “Permitting Pilot”

April 6, 2021

Ari Epstein

Protection

High Peaks Wilderness, Permits

Adirondack websites and social media are abuzz with news of a new pilot permit program that the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) and Adirondack Mountain Reserve (AMR)…

Expertise and Adaptive Management for the High Peaks

March 15, 2021

Pete Nelson

Protection

Adaptive Management, High Peaks Wilderness, Visitor Use Management

AWA’s first order of business in serving on the High Peaks Advisory Group (HPAG) was to ensure that protection of the Wilderness was a paramount and inviolate principle. That was…

Leading with Principles

March 6, 2021

Pete Nelson

Protection

High Peaks Wilderness

Friday, March 5, 2021 Dear AWA Supporter: Earlier this afternoon, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) released the long-awaited Final Report from the High Peaks Strategic Planning…

A Very Brief History of the High Peaks Wilderness

February 27, 2021

Bill Ingersoll

Knowledge

High Peaks Wilderness, History

The human history of the Adirondack High Peaks region is such a voluminous subject matter that it could easily fill an entire book. These mountains have been so scrutinized over…

Old Roads on Old Maps

February 13, 2021

Bill Ingersoll

Enjoyment

Silver Lake Wilderness

We are on the south side of the stream, and there is no sign of the old logging road. All around us are open hardwoods: mature maples and birches arching…

Forty-Six: On the Occasion of the 2021 Presidential Inauguration

January 20, 2021

Bill Ingersoll

Opinion

Boreas Ponds

We started Adirondack Wilderness Advocates in 2016, a year with implications in the political history of this country. We weren’t anything close to a national movement then, nor do we…

UPDATE: Development Continues on AWA’s Visitor Use Management App

December 13, 2020

Ari Epstein

Protection

High Peaks Wilderness

Earlier this year, I wrote about a proof of concept app we had started working on to produce better data about visitor activity in the Adirondack Park. The concept was…

River of No Return

December 9, 2020

Bill Ingersoll

Enjoyment

Silver Lake Wilderness

Over Lexie’s curled form, over the down sleeping bag and the spare coat that has kept us warm through the night, out of the tent and across the small campsite…

Wilderness Drop Zones: A Poor Management Practice

December 4, 2020

Bill Ingersoll

Protection

Ha-de-ron-dah Wilderness, High Peaks Wilderness, Lake George Wild Forest, Shaker Mountain Wild Forest, West Canada Lake Wilderness

Maintaining wilderness facilities such as trails, footbridges, and lean-tos is an important responsibility for the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC), the agency in charge of managing the forever-wild Adirondack…

When the Earth Was Wilderness

December 2, 2020

Bill Ingersoll

Opinion

I‌ ‌wrote‌ ‌my‌ ‌first‌ ‌book‌ ‌in‌ ‌the‌ ‌second‌ ‌grade.‌ ‌Seriously.‌ ‌It‌ ‌was‌ ‌written‌ ‌and‌ ‌drawn‌ ‌in‌ ‌pencil,‌ ‌and‌ ‌it‌ ‌was‌ ‌colored‌ ‌in‌ ‌crayon.‌ ‌But‌ ‌it‌ ‌had‌ ‌thirty-two‌ ‌pages‌ ‌and‌ ‌a‌ ‌cover,‌…

AWA Co-organizing an Alpine Summit Adaptive Management Pilot

AWA Selects New Leader

What to Watch in the AMR’s “Permitting Pilot”

Expertise and Adaptive Management for the High Peaks

Leading with Principles

A Very Brief History of the High Peaks Wilderness

Old Roads on Old Maps

Forty-Six: On the Occasion of the 2021 Presidential Inauguration

UPDATE: Development Continues on AWA’s Visitor Use Management App

River of No Return

Wilderness Drop Zones: A Poor Management Practice

When the Earth Was Wilderness

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