As part of his 2010-2011 Executive Budget, Governor David Paterson proposed significant and disproportionate cuts to the Environmental Protection Fund (EPF) and Adirondack Park Agency (APA) that would have lasting negative consequences for the Adirondack Park. Your help is needed today to ensure that the APA can perform its duties, the Park’s open space is protected and opportunities to save ecological significant lands are not lost forever. We need you to write letters to the Legislature to urge them to save the environmental programs in the budget. View our full Action Alert on the Adirondack Council's website: http://www.adirondackcouncil.org/EPF_aa_Feb10.html  Without full funding to New York's EPF, many lands within the Adirondack Park are at risk to development or unsustainable logging. Failure to secure these vital lands would jeopardize a Park that is a global conservation model and a landscape that offers the greatest of New York’s natural heritage.  Please read more about... Read More