{"id":4887,"date":"2011-09-29T15:11:27","date_gmt":"2011-09-29T19:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=4887"},"modified":"2011-10-03T08:59:08","modified_gmt":"2011-10-03T12:59:08","slug":"adirondack-landmark-acquired-by-schenectady-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/09\/29\/adirondack-landmark-acquired-by-schenectady-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Adirondack landmark acquired by Schenectady college"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4888\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/09\/29\/adirondack-landmark-acquired-by-schenectady-college\/adirondack-research-center-for-web\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4888\" title=\"Adirondack Research Center for web\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2011\/09\/Adirondack-Research-Center-for-web-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2011\/09\/Adirondack-Research-Center-for-web-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2011\/09\/Adirondack-Research-Center-for-web-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2011\/09\/Adirondack-Research-Center-for-web-450x337.jpg 450w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2011\/09\/Adirondack-Research-Center-for-web.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The environmental group Protect the Adirondacks announced today that it has completed the sale of the historic Schaefer property in Niskayuna, NY, to Union College.<\/p>\n<p>The home (pictured at left) was owned by Paul Schaefer, one of the most influential environmental activist in the Park&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n<p>He led the fight to block construction of dams on many of the Adirondacks&#8217; wildest rivers.<\/p>\n<p>He also convinced Albany not to route the I-87 Northway through what is now the Pharoah Lake Wilderness.<\/p>\n<p>His old property includes a large library of Adirondack-related material, which will be on permanent loan to the college.<\/p>\n<p>According to Protect&#8217;s senior advisor, Peter Borrelli, Union College plans to use the site as the anchor for a new Adirondack studies program.<\/p>\n<p>The move to sell the property came following the merging and downsizing of two of the Park&#8217;s most important environmental groups.<\/p>\n<p>Protect the Adirondacks has re-emerged as a significant player in Park debates, playing a prominent role recently in public hearings surrounding the Adironack Club and Resort proposed for Tupper Lake.<\/p>\n<p>Terms of the sale weren&#8217;t disclosed.\u00a0 &#8220;I believe strongly that Union College has the capacity and interest to put [the property] to excellent use,&#8221; Borrelli wrote in a statement.<span style=\"font-family: Verdana; color: navy; font-size: x-small;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The environmental group Protect the Adirondacks announced today that it has completed the sale of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[7],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4887"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}