GUEST COLUMN: State must reform policies, restore damaged forestlands | The Daily Gazette
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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the state constitution must be reformed, and plans for a motorized trail network that violated forever wild need to be rescinded.
Yet neither the DEC or APA have managed a coherent and thoughtful response that acknowledges their violations and takes responsibility for their mismanagement.