Wild Thoughts – Page 8 – Adirondack Wilderness Advocates

Part 4 of 4 It has been a slow process, but it has been a privilege to observe these changes over a twenty-year period. Now instead of imagining the future,…

Wilderness by Description or Proscription?

October 13, 2020

Part 3 of 4 When you walk through the woods for miles at a time, it stimulates blood flow throughout your body. The brain is often a passive beneficiary, and…

A Wilderness of Roads

October 3, 2020

Part 2 of 4 The year 2000 was memorable for two reasons: I had met Barbara McMartin that winter and became her newest guidebook assistant, and in the summer DEC…

Roads of Recovery

September 22, 2020

Adirondack Wilderness Advocates

Part 1 of 4 – Introduction Recent news that the remaining portion of Whitney Park, one of the last surviving private parks erected in the 1890s, is on the market…

Wilderness Is Essential

May 17, 2020

Kayla White

Enjoyment, Opinion

I am lucky to live with wild places right outside my front door. I have local trails on which I can hike, ski, or take my dog for a walk,…

Wilderness Visitor Management: There’s an App for That!

March 1, 2020

Ari Epstein

Protection

High Peaks Wilderness

A little over ten years ago, I had the opportunity to attend a lecture Phil Brown delivered about his then-newly published collection of letters and essays by Bob Marshall, one…

AWA Takes an Active Role in High Peaks Visitor Management

February 7, 2020

Pete Nelson

Protection

High Peaks Wilderness

At Adirondack Wilderness Advocates we refer to our core mission as KEEP: Knowledge, Enjoyment, Expansion and Protection of the Adirondack Park’s wildest places. That goes for the High Peaks Wilderness as much as…

Adirondack Wilderness Advocates Incorporates, Names Board

December 12, 2019

News

Adirondack Wilderness Advocates (AWA) today announced its incorporation as a non-profit 501(3)(c) charitable corporation dedicated to the purpose of advancing public knowledge, enjoyment, expansion, and protection of the Adirondack Park’s…

Cathead Mountain: Where Public Safety and Wilderness Meet

December 6, 2019