Download or read book A Wild Idea written by Brad Edmondson and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-15 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Wild Idea shares the complete story of the difficult birth of the Adirondack Park Agency (APA). The Adirondack region of New York's rural North Country forms the nation's largest State Park, with a territory as large as Vermont. Planning experts view the APA as a triumph of sustainability that balances human activity with the preservation of wild ecosystems. The truth isn't as pretty. The story of the APA, told here for the first time, is a complex, troubled tale of political dueling and communities pushed to the brink of violence. The North Country's environmental movement started among a small group of hunters and hikers, rose on a huge wave of public concern about pollution that crested in the early 1970s, and overcame multiple obstacles to "save" the Adirondacks. Edmondson shows how the movement's leaders persuaded a powerful Governor to recruit planners, naturalists, and advisors and assign a task that had never been attempted before. The team and the politicians who supported them worked around the clock to draft two visionary land-use plans and turn them into law. But they also made mistakes, and their strict regulations were met with determined opposition from local landowners who insisted that private property is private. A Wild Idea is based on in-depth interviews with five dozen insiders who are central to the story. Their observations contain many surprising and shocking revelations. This is a rich, exciting narrative about state power and how it was imposed on rural residents. It shows how the Adirondacks were "saved," and also why that campaign sparked a passionate rebellion.
Download or read book Annual Report Adirondack Park Agency written by Adirondack Park Agency (N.Y.) and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Adirondack Park Agency Administration and Enforcement of the Adirondack Park Land Use and Development Plan written by Adirondack Park Agency (N.Y.) and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Citizen s Guide to Adirondack Park Agency Land Use Regulations written by Adirondack Park Agency (N.Y.) and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Citizen s Guide to Adirondack Park Agency Land Use Regulations written by Adirondack Park Agency (N.Y.) and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Adirondack Park Agency Rules and Regulations written by Adirondack Park Agency (N.Y.) and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Why the Adirondacks Look the Way They Do written by Mike Storey and published by Storey Publishing. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of the Task Force on Expediting Adirondack Park Agency Operations and Simplifying Its Procedures written by Task Force on Expediting Adirondack Park Agency Operations and Simplifying its Procedures (N.Y.) and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proposal to Revise Adirondack Park Agency Rules and Regulations written by Adirondack Park Agency (N.Y.) and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Adirondack Park written by Frank Graham, Jr. and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1991-10-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rules and Regulations written by Adirondack Park Agency (N.Y.) and published by . This book was released on 1979* with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Inside the Green Lobby written by Bernard C. Melewski and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2022-02-01 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inside the Green Lobby recounts the behind-the-scenes efforts, both at the State Capitol in Albany and the halls of Congress, of a lobbyist for a major environmental advocacy group. Bernard C. Melewski worked to save the six-million acre Adirondack Park from twin threats to its future: the devastating damage from acid rain and the sudden breakup of massive private land holdings that had been intact for almost one hundred years. Starting with the political uproar ignited by the recommendations of New York Governor Mario Cuomo’s 1990 Adirondack Park Commission, and the rejection by the public of a new environmental bond act, Inside the Green Lobby documents the events that led to the sudden acquisition by New York State of tens of thousands of acres within the park that the public now enjoys. From strategy sessions with lobbyists to private meetings with legislators, governors, members of Congress, and even the President of the United States, Melewski recounts engaging and entertaining stories that introduce how environmental advocates successfully pursue legislative and policy change.
Download or read book Adirondack Park Agency Rules and Regulations written by Adirondack Park Agency (Ray Brook, N.Y.) and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Staff Draft Revision of Adirondack Park Agency Rules and Regulations written by Adirondack Park Agency (N.Y.) and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of the Task Force on Expediting Adirondack Park Agency Operations and Simplifying Its Procedures written by Task Force on the Adirondack Park Agency and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of the Adirondack Park Agency to the New York State Legislature Regarding the Inclusion of Additional Rivers in the Wild Scenic and Recreational Rivers System written by Adirondack Park Agency (N.Y.) and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of the Citizens Advisory Task Force on Open Space to the Adirondack Park Agency written by Adirondack Park Agency (N.Y.). Citizens' Advisory Task Force on Open Space and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
