The Adirondack Park Agency recently released draft plans for the management and classification of the Boreas Ponds and adjacent lands. Unfortunately, the Agency’s proposals fail to adequately protect this unique habitat from future motorized use, threatening the most significant new tract of Forest Preserve purchased by the State in over a hundred years.
The Boreas Ponds and its watershed must be protected with a Wilderness Classification. Anything less will allow the ponds to be subject to needless stress, wildlife habitat degradation, and invasive species.
Comments on the Boreas Ponds proposed Alternatives Classification Plan are due on Friday December 30, 2016.
Please lend your voice today and ask the State to reject proposals which do not fully provide true Wilderness protection within a mile of the Boreas Ponds.