Debar Pond is seen in April 2017.
(Enterprise photo â Justin A. Levine) The state Adirondack Park Agency board on Thursday voted 9-2 to advance a draft unit management plan for the Debar Mountain Complex, opening a 60-day joint public comment period that ends Feb. 12, 2021. Board members Chad Dawson and Zoe Smith cast the no votes. John Ernst, Mark Hall, Andrea Hogan, Art Lussi, Kenneth Lynch and Daniel Wilt voted yes, as did state agency designees Bradley Austin (Department of Economic Development), Lynne Mahoney (Department of State) and Joe Zalewski (Department of Environmental Conservation). The plan, written by the DEC, would demolish the Debar Lodge and its outbuildings, and create a day-use and picnic area at Debar Pond. For the day-use area, it would reclassify about 41 acres of state Forest Preserve from wild forest, a moderately restrictive category, to intensive use, the least restrictive option.