Protect The Adirondacks

[Ripitz]

A lot of hikers want quick point A to B sort of experiences.

Cue RA and friends dropping the impossible, straight down the fall line, smoking the brakes.

 

[raisingarizona]

Cue RA and friends dropping the impossible, straight down the fall line, smoking the brakes.

I’ve built some of those too. These days it’s more about limiting the steep bits to more manageable or maintainable sections, generally <30 feet on directional dh trail and with smooth exits/transitions that keep riders off the brakes but yeah, I still love an old school jam from time to time but I can’t build like that professionally

 

[Campgottagopee]

I think the difficulties go all the way back the fact that NYS decided to draw the park boundaries in a way that put thousands of people and a great deal of private property inside the park and that many activities which were allowed in the past are now claimed to be illegal based on new interpretations of old laws. Parks aren’t supposed to have towns and highways and ski resorts inside them.

Attack in the Adirondacks | Michael W. Fanning

 

[tirolski]

I think the difficulties go all the way back the fact that NYS decided to draw the park boundaries in a way that put thousands of people and a great deal of private property inside the park and that many activities which were allowed in the past are now claimed to be illegal based on new interpretations of old laws. Parks aren’t supposed to have towns and highways and ski resorts inside them.

There are more parks inside of cities&towns than outside of cities&towns.
The Blue Line is in fact a rare special case.
Bureaucracy much

 

[raisingarizona]

Gubment is often just a bunch of organized criminals.

 

[x10003q]

Roughly 3.4 million acres out of 6 million acres in the Adk Park are privately owned.

 

[tirolski]

Roughly 3.4 million acres out of 6 million acres in the Adk Park are privately owned.

A Mississippi company has some acres. They get to cut trees too.
Hotty Toddy y’all.

Molpus Woodlands is the Park's largest landowner

Molpus Woodlands, which started buying lands in New York State in 2007, says it owns 240,000 acres, primarily in the northwest sector of the Park. Lyme Timber, based in New Hampshire, owns 239,000 acres in the Adirondacks.

www.adirondackexplorer.org

 

[Brownski]

Roughly 3.4 million acres out of 6 million acres in the Adk Park are privately owned.

I knew it was a lot but that’s kind of crazy.

 

[tirolski]

“New York state offers a property tax break for landowners who commit to protect their private forest land, but some property owners are not living up to their end of the agreement,” DiNapoli said.

 

[tirolski]

Now an old DEC commissioner goes back to being chairman of the board of directors at ORDA.
I remember playing musical chairs as a kid but the rools were ya took a seat away each round when the music was playing.
Seems these folks get to play with no seats being eliminated.

Hochul taps former DEC commissioner to lead Olympic authority board

Former DEC Commissioner Joe Martens is the new head of the board of the Olympic Regional Development Authority.

www.adirondackexplorer.org

Back when Martens was board chairman @ORDA.

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