Ron Arnold: Tracking Green

Adirondack Council, Inc. PO Box D 2
Two Church Street
Elizabethtown, NY 12932-0640
Phone: (518) 873-2240
Toll-Free Number: 800-842-PARK
Fax: (518) 873-6675
Website: http://www.adirondackcouncil.org
Email: adkcouncil@aol.com
EIN 14-1594386
Founded 1975
Exempt since 1978
The Council held a securities investment portfolio of $2,306,248 in 2009.
The Council spent $17,587 lobbying in 2009.

(Form 990 available at guidestar.org)
Self-description: The mission of the Adirondack Council is to ensure the ecological integrity and wild character of the Adirondack Park. We envision an Adirondack Park composed of large core wilderness areas, connected to working farms and forests, and augmented by vibrant communities, all within a diverse mosaic of biologically intact landscapes.

Actual: Rich elitists lording it over the unfortunate people who live in or near this 6 million acre preserve. The only vibrancy in the communities is rage against their wealthy, misanthropic oppressors.



Program self-description: The Council's consistent advocacy for the 409,000-acre Bob Marshall Great Wilderness was bolstered by the addition to the Adirondack Forest Preserve of 11,000 acres of wilderness lands within the boundary of the Bob. Council members mobilized to prevent efforts to increase motorized access in the proposed Boreal Forest Reserve. The Council and environmental colleagues took legal action preventing DEC from allowing large tracked snowmobile groomers on the Forest Preserve. The Council helped secure first passage of a Constitutional Amendment to allow a new 56 kV power line to use an existing road corridor, preventing an alternative route through ancient forest, avoiding eminent domain for local property owners, and ensuring a process that reinforces the constitutional protections for the Forest Preserve.

Actual: Keeping residents so poor they cannot obtain cell phone service or high-speed Internet in many areas, and keeping the public from entering their domain. Bob Marshall, after whom their "Great Wilderness" was named, was an independently wealthy heir of Daddy's Money, a member of the Socialist Party of Norman Thomas, and a co-founder (1935) of The Wilderness Society. Council members seem to have followed his example.

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