Adirondack Park report to be discussed Thursday

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. >> A report about the Adirondack Park by Adirondack Wild: Friends of the Forest Preserve will be the subject of a presentation at the Saratoga Springs Public Library on Thursday, April 27. The presentation at noon in the Library’s H. Dutcher Community Room will be free and open to the public.

Adirondack Wild published “Adirondack Park at a Crossroad: A Road Map for Action” that documents a pattern of mission drift, forest fragmentation, lowered standards and reduced wilderness safeguards by the state agencies whose job it is to protect the Adirondack Park, a news release said. The report also describes Adirondack Wild’s recommendations for needed policy and legislative changes.

Presenting the report’s findings and fielding questions about it will be David Gibson, Adirondack Wild’s managing partner.

“One goal of our report is to document a pattern to show that the Adirondack Park is not as well protected as many may assume it is,” Gibson said in the release. “A second goal is to reawaken and re-energize a longstanding statewide citizen constituency ready to stand up for the park and its constitutional protection, a park that is truly unique not only in New York state but on planet earth.”

Adirondack Wild: Friends of the Forest Preserve is a not for profit, membership organization which advances New York’s “Forever Wild” legacy and Forest Preserve policies in the Adirondack and Catskill Parks, and promotes public and private land stewardship consistent with wild land values through education, advocacy and research, the release said.

For more information, visit www.adirondackwild.org.