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Dedicated to promoting the knowledge, enjoyment, expansion, and protection of the Adirondack Park’s wildest places!

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Armchair Exploring — Adirondack Wilderness Advocates Getting outdoors is fun, but sometimes it’s fun to explore from the comfort of your home. Read how one of our Wilderness Advocates got started with maps and the joy they get from them.

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10.11.2025 23:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Adirondack Old Growth Forests — Adirondack Wilderness Advocates Learn about the biggest and oldest trees in the Adirondack Park!

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28.10.2025 23:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Adirondack Wilderness Advocates' New Website — Adirondack Wilderness Advocates We have a new website!

Check out our brand new website!

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24.10.2025 14:39 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
State eyes massive purchase of Whitney Park in conservation effort Gov. Kathy Hochul comes forward with presenting the state's desire to acquire the majority of Whitney Park's 36,600 acres in the Adirondacks

We are thrilled about this news

13.10.2025 15:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Blue Ridge Wilderness

06.10.2025 01:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Those Who Walked Before Us: Accepting the Human in the Adirondack Wilderness – Adirondack Wilderness Advocates Who walked before us on the wild lands in the Adirondack Park?

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02.10.2025 21:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Lost in the Wilderness – Adirondack Wilderness Advocates For many people, time spent in the wilderness is bliss. It’s fulfilling. It’s all encompassing. But it also entails responsibility, both for ourselves and others.
14.09.2025 22:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Sign Up and Stay Informed Visit the post for more.

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12.08.2025 22:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Commentary: Put Mark Hall on the short list for next Adirondack Park Agency chair Current Adirondack Park Agency board member, Clifton-Fine community leader known for his fairness, strong leadership skills

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12.08.2025 20:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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What is Wilderness? – Adirondack Wilderness Advocates What is Wilderness? The answer might be more complicated than meets the eye.

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08.08.2025 17:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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EXPLORE! Sand Pond – Adirondack Wilderness Advocates Sand Pond is located within the 23,800+ acre Pepperbox Wilderness. The Pepperbox isn’t exactly known for having extensive hiking opportunities; in fact, the wilderness here is largely “trailless.” …
10.07.2025 22:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Today in the Pepperbox Wilderness

01.07.2025 23:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Adirondack Eskers A look at the glacial feature known as an "esker" that defines the Adirondack landscape. This story provides examples and tells readers where to see eskers in person.
22.06.2025 22:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Pharoah Lake Wilderness – A Recovered Jewel – Adirondack Wilderness Advocates In late May, Amy and I went for a jaunt in the nearly-15,000-acre Pharoah Lake Wilderness in the southeast portion of the Adirondack Park. This lightly-visited tract may not have same cachet as the…
17.06.2025 14:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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APA saves accessibility issue for another day The APA stepped back from a proposed change to the Adirondack Park State Land Master Plan on devices people with disabilities can use in state wilderness areas.

Updates from the APA

14.06.2025 12:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Evelyn Greene, Denizen of the Forest Preserve, 1940 – 2025 – Adirondack Wilderness Advocates A couple of years ago, my partner Amy and I led a treasured guest on a bushwhack towards our inholding deep in the High Peaks. Two miles of not inconsiderable effort, passing upward through several…
09.06.2025 00:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Thank you for supporting our “No Motors in Wilderness” petition – Adirondack Wilderness Advocates Update: June 6, 2025 Dear AWA Supporters: In a memo released today, the Adirondack Park Agency (APA) announced that it has listened to all our shared comments and concerns about some of the propose…

An updated “thank you” to all our supporters.

06.06.2025 20:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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In Wake of Whitney Park News, New York State Needs to Step Up – Adirondack Wilderness Advocates FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Friday, June 6, 2025  Keene, N.Y. – In the wake of news that the 36,000-acre Whitney Park is under contract to be  purchased by a developer, Adirondack Wilderness Advocates (…

NYS needs to step up #Adirondacks #WhitneyPark

06.06.2025 14:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Whitney buyer says New York shut out of Adirondack Park land deal Conservationists hope that Whitney Estate buyer will consider protecting parts of the 36,600-acre property through easements

Pete Nelson, of AWA, said the state DEC has the ability to enter into conservation easements and has done so with some small and large properties in the Adirondacks. “A conservation easement could help protect a lot of that land,” he said about Whitney Park.

05.06.2025 03:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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EXPLORE! Ausable Marsh – Adirondack Wilderness Advocates A hidden gem in the Town of Peru is the Ausable Marsh encompassing 660 acres of the Ausable River delta on the shore of Lake Champlain. Ausable Marsh is a birding heaven – migratory spec…
01.06.2025 21:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Splish Splash!: Hiking During “Mud Season” – Adirondack Wilderness Advocates Written by Board Director Amy Nelson I remember the first time I brought my brother out to an Adirondack trail. We were up to our kneecaps in muck, surrounded by armpit-high plants, and he hollers …
28.05.2025 23:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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COMMENTARY: When it comes to mobility devices in wilderness, more work is needed to understand what users want - Last December, through a FOIL request, I received the 2,074 pages of letters in response to the proposed amendments to the Adirondack Park State Land Master Plan (SLMP). I was most interested in the l...
05.05.2025 23:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Caretakers in the Wild – Adirondack Wilderness Advocates As volunteer caretakers, my wife and I have lived in the middle of wilderness areas around the world. Despite being a board member of the Adirondack Wilderness Advocates, a group dedicated to savin…
25.04.2025 00:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Exploring a Different Wilderness On a relatively mild day in mid-January members of the Board of Directors of Adirondack Wilderness Advocates stood on the shore of a remote and wild pond. It was frozen enough to walk across, so we…
10.04.2025 22:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Meet Our Newest Board Members Adirondack Wilderness Advocates adds three new members to the board.
02.04.2025 23:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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AWA Supports Trail Usage Research – Adirondack Wilderness Advocates The State Department of Environmental Conservation, Adirondack Park Agency, several Adirondack conservation groups, and the public have been concerned about trail overuse, crowds, trail degradation…
31.03.2025 15:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Hopefully we’ll see you at the Adirondack Sports Summer Expo later this month!

04.03.2025 20:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

#ICYMI - ADIRONDACK CONSERVATION ORGANIZATIONS URGE PARK AGENCY
TO DROP MOTOR-VEHICLE PLAN

03.03.2025 23:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Recently in the Five Ponds Wilderness.

26.02.2025 01:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Turning point: What 2025 holds for environmental groups in the Adirondacks With new leaders stepping up in influential Adirondack organizations, how will advocacy adapt to challenges like climate change and regulatory changes?
20.02.2025 23:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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