The Adirondack Council is a not-for-profit environmental group that has been working since 1975 to protect the open-space resources of New York State's six-million-acre Adirondack Park and to help sustain the natural and human communities of the region. Based in the Adirondacks with a second office in Albany, the Adirondack Council has a staff of 15. The Adirondack Council is the largest citizen environmental group in New York State working full-time, on a daily basis in the Adirondack Park, in the state capital and in Washington to preserve this six-million-acre treasure. Click here to read our vision statement.

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The Council's Park protection efforts include:

• Advocacy and lobbying for land use planning and land protection.
• Research issues that affect the ecology and economy of the Park.
• Public education about the Park through the media and schools.
• Environmental monitoring on the local, state, and national levels.
• Litigation, when necessary.

Click here to read the Council's strategic plan.

The Adirondack Council works on every governmental level to gain land and water protection funding. The Council:

• Helped gain state legislative and voter approval of a $1.75 billion "Clean Air, Clean Water" Bond Act.
• Works to ensure that the New York State Legislature provides adequate funding to New York's Environmental Protection Fund.
• Pushes Congress to appropriate federal Land and Water Conservation Fund money for land protection in New York.
• Presses for changes to national clean air policy to give the Adirondacks a chance to recover from the damage acid rain has caused and is still causing.
  

The Adirondack Council monitors development on private lands, ensures the mandated constitutional protection of public lands, and "watchdogs" and advises the public agencies that work within the Park. The Council keeps members up-to-date on "goings-on" in the Adirondack Park through regular newsletters, special publications - like our report on acid rain "Acid Rain - A Continuing National Tragedy" and action alerts on hot Adirondack issues. It also plans for the future of the Adirondacks through public education, research and policy analysis.