{"id":37752,"date":"2024-10-22T15:45:12","date_gmt":"2024-10-22T19:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.glensfalls.com\/glensfallsbusinessjournal\/?p=37752"},"modified":"2024-10-22T15:45:12","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T19:45:12","slug":"the-adirondack-council-has-issued-its-43rd-annual-state-of-the-park-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glensfalls.com\/glensfallsbusinessjournal\/2024\/10\/the-adirondack-council-has-issued-its-43rd-annual-state-of-the-park-report\/","title":{"rendered":"The Adirondack Council Has Issued Its 43rd Annual State Of The Park Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_37753\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37753\" style=\"width: 251px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-37753 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.glensfalls.com\/glensfallsbusinessjournal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/109\/2024\/10\/state-of-the-park-report-2024-cover-251x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"251\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.glensfalls.com\/glensfallsbusinessjournal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/109\/2024\/10\/state-of-the-park-report-2024-cover-251x300.jpg 251w, https:\/\/www.glensfalls.com\/glensfallsbusinessjournal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/109\/2024\/10\/state-of-the-park-report-2024-cover-857x1024.jpg 857w, https:\/\/www.glensfalls.com\/glensfallsbusinessjournal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/109\/2024\/10\/state-of-the-park-report-2024-cover-768x917.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.glensfalls.com\/glensfallsbusinessjournal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/109\/2024\/10\/state-of-the-park-report-2024-cover.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 251px) 100vw, 251px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-37753\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cPoised for Action\u201d is the theme of the Adirondack Park\u2019s 43rd edition of its report.<br \/>Courtesy of Adirondack Park Agency<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Adirondack Council and the Adirondack Park are \u201cPoised for Action\u201d as 2025 approaches, according to the 43rd edition of Adirondack Council\u2019s State of the Park Report, released recently.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Adirondack Council\u2019s annual State of the Park Report is comprehensive annual assessment of environmental conditions, social issues and government actions for the largest park in the contiguous United States.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Its current 43 editions serve as an almanac of important park events and decisions affecting generations of New York residents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Adirondack Park had a good year in terms of water quality funding, a new draft of the State Wildlife Action Plan, approval of a Climate Superfund Act and significant improvements in river habitat for native trout,\u201d said Adirondack Council Executive Director Raul J. Aguirre. \u201cAll of those wins will require additional action and collaboration in the coming months to achieve their intended goals.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven when we saw wins for the Adirondacks, such as the governor doubling the amount of grant funding available to rural communities seeking to build or replace municipal wastewater treatment systems, there is work to do to see actual projects come to fruition in the North Country,\u201d he said. \u201cFacilitating positive outcomes on the ground from our successful advocacy efforts in Albany and Washington, DC is part of what we envision in the year ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><strong><span class=\"s1\"><span class=\"s2\"><!--more--><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span>\u201cIn addition, the state has a new draft of its Wildlife Action Plan that is designed to keep healthy wildlife populations intact,\u201d Aguirre explained. \u201cDue for final adoption in 2025, the action plan aims to prevent rare and threatened species from becoming \u2018endangered\u2019 by addressing habitat-protection needs before species reach the brink of extinction. This will require the state to become more progressive in protecting lands and waters.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The plan also includes the idea of conserving plants as part of a newly holistic approach to wildlife protection.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another part of the Adirondack habitat protection effort is succeeding with federal funding, he said. This effort focuses on the removal of no-longer-needed dams from rivers across the Adirondack Park to help native fish populations to recover.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>During the Industrial Revolution, many of the Adirondack Park\u2019s rivers were dammed and diverted to create hydro-power for factories, mills and electricity generation. Large numbers of those dams are still in place. Many are no longer needed. Nearly all of them are barriers to fish passage, preventing the natural spawning of native fish, including trout and salmon.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>That requires expensive fisheries enhancement programs that monitor local conditions and stock non-native species to replace the missing natives.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Fish &amp; Wildlife Service and Trout Unlimited are working to remove some of the most impactful derelict dams in the eastern Adirondacks.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The partners removed two dams from the Saranac River in the fall and winter of 2023, allowing trout and salmon from Lake Champlain to reach spawning areas near the Adirondack border for the first time in more than a century.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>USF&amp;W and TU are restoring habitat in four rivers connecting Adirondack uplands to Lake Champlain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are also awaiting action from Governor Kathy Hochul, whom we hope will sign the Climate Superfund Act,\u201d he said. \u201cThe bill would generate funds for climate stabilization and prevention of damage to fundamental infrastructure, while also calling on climate polluters to pay a share of the clean-up costs.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Requiring climate polluters to pay a portion of the bill is an effective way to discourage poor behavior when it comes to greenhouse gas emissions.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t have any more time to waste in solving this problem,\u201d he explained. \u201cThis summer we saw dozens of very destructive storms in the Adirondacks, including seven tornadoes in a single day and torrential rains that washed away state highways, again.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Adirondack Council and the Adirondack Park are \u201cPoised for Action\u201d as 2025 approaches, according to the 43rd edition of Adirondack Council\u2019s State of the Park Report, released recently.\u00a0 The Adirondack Council\u2019s annual State of the Park Report is comprehensive annual assessment of environmental conditions, social issues and government actions for the largest park in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":37753,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - 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