Adirondack Council, Inc.

Elizabethtown, New York

Our Mission

Since its founding forty years ago in 1975, the Adirondack Council has been the leading advocate for protecting New York Stateâ€™s six-million-acre Adirondack Park. Created in 1892 as a unique six-million-acre patchwork of both publicly and privately owned lands, the Adirondack Park is the largest park in the contiguous United States. By State Constitution, the public portions are protected as "Forever Wild" Adirondack Forest Preserve. The Adirondack Council, using the best science, works to protect and build a better Adirondack Park with wild character and vibrant communities. We defend wilderness, support community sustainability, fight for clean air and water, combat invasive species and climate change, and advocate for private land stewardship and working farms and forests.

Who We Are

Many of the issues the Adirondack Council confronts in its role as lead defender of the Adirondack Park have national and international impact, especially acid rain and global climate change. The Council's advocacy efforts are also focused on current threats specific to the ecology and wild character of the Adirondacks including shoreline development and water degradation, the fragmentation of large blocks of working forest lands, use of motor vehicles in wild areas, and proposals to build telecommunications towers on ridgelines and open agricultural lands. The Adirondack Council works with other organizations and state agencies to secure state and federal funding for conservation, environmental projects, and community revitalization.