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GUEST COLUMN: State must reform policies, restore damaged forestlands | The Daily Gazette SECTIONS For The Daily Gazette The Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) and Adirondack Park Agency (APA) were found this month to have violated the famed “forever wild” clause in New York’s constitution. Neither agency has been able to muster a meaningful response. Damaged public Forest Preserve lands need to be restored, official state policies that debased the state constitution must be r...

Since New York’s top court ruled last week that the state violated its own constitution by cutting trees for Class II snowmobile trails on the Forest Preserve, state agencies have given scant response on what this might mean for the future of...

International aid to Africa needs an overhaul. Tips on what needs to change Format Disclosure statement Tigist Mekonnen Melesse does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment. The fact that foreign aid as currently practised has failed to achieve its poverty reduction targets in Africa is clear from the data. Over 75% of the world’s ...

The fact that foreign aid as currently practised has failed to achieve its poverty reduction targets in Africa is clear from the data. Over 75% of the world’s poor live in Africa today. In 1970 the figure was 10%. Some forecasts suggest it could rise to 90% by 2030. Africa is the only continent in the world where official aid inflow outstrips private capital inflow by a large margin. This is problematic since no country in the world has achieved substantial development based on reliance on a...

In a sweeping and decisive decision last week, New York’s highest court ruled in favor of Protect the Adirondacks that a new type of wide snowmobile trail is

New York state is acquiring more than 1,200 acres of land in Warren County that will be added to the Adirondack Park.

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New York’s top court ruled on Tuesday that the state violated its own constitution by cutting trees for snowmobile trails in the Adirondacks. This case also defined what the word “timber” means in the “forever wild” clause of the state constitution, expanding it to include trees under 3 inches in diameter. While the ruling says too many trees were cut for these trails, it leaves vague how much will be too much cutting for future trail work. The state Court of Appeals ru...

New York promises for Frontier Town fall short Iconic building in Adirondacks is being renovated, but big plans for area havent transpired FacebookTwitterEmail 1of99 Local businessman Muhammed Ahmad is renovating the iconic A-frame at the entrance to Frontier Town in the Adirondacks.Muhammed AhmedShow MoreShow Less 2of99Buy PhotoSign in front of the abandoned Frontier Town on Sunday, Aug. 6, 2017 in North Hudson, N.Y. (Lori Van Buren / Times Union)Lori Van BurenShow MoreShow Less 4of99 A render...

4:05 Adirondack environmental groups are lauding a ruling from New York’s highest court that finds a Department of Environmental Conservation project building snowmobile connector trails in the Adirondacks violates the state Constitution. In 2013 Protect the Adirondacks filed suit against the DEC and the Adirondack Park Agency over the project on Adirondack Forest Preserve lands.   The New York Court of Appeals on Tuesday ruled that “…the planned construction of the Class II community c...