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Protect the Adirondacks lays off all paid staff

by on September 30th, 2010

We’ve been reporting on the financial struggles of various environmental groups in the Park.

Now Protect the Adirondacks — formed by the Residents Committee and the Association for the Protection of the Adirondacks — is terminating all paid employees.

This from the Schenectady Daily Gazette.

Seven remaining paid staffers at the conservation group Protect the Adirondacks! are expected to be let go later this week, and the group will be run solely by volunteers, a board member said.

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4 Comments on “Protect the Adirondacks lays off all paid staff”

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  1. Brian says:
    September 30, 2010 at 11:33 am

    This combined with 200+ job losses at DEC must be making those who want to pave over the Adirondacks lick their chops.

  2. DBW says:
    September 30, 2010 at 12:01 pm

    Brian –

    Don’t worry Brian with the credit crisis there isn’t money to build much anyway and there are other places they can make more money than paving over the Adks. If the organizations were disappearing during a boom time, there might be reason to worry.

  3. Paul says:
    September 30, 2010 at 12:43 pm

    Brian, there are 3 million acres of public land and 1 million acres of easement land all ‘sans’ pavement in perpetuity. I know that many people like to portray the place as under some hugely imminent threat but that is just not the case. That is part of the reason some of these groups are having trouble, they are stuck dealing with reality. Giving for environmental issues has gone up over the past few years so they should be doing well, but I think it is more likely that people are just starting to get a clue when it comes to what these groups are doing in the Adirondacks.

  4. Brian says:
    October 1, 2010 at 10:56 am

    Paul, there is no “Berlin Wall” separating the 3 million public acres and the 3 million private ones.

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