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 PHOTO PROVIDEDAdirondack Council Director of Government Relations Kevin Chlad stands holding the 2020 Paul Schaefer Wilderness Award, presented to him by Adirondack Wild: Friends of the Forest Preserve. Chlad was recognized, in part, for his work in 2016 to organize statewide volunteers for the Adirondack Park Wilderness Campaign, which resulted in a Wilderness classification for the Boreas Ponds and to the most significant expansion of the High Peaks Wilderness area in decades. He has also helped to up funding each year for Forest Preserve stewardship, an important part of the stateâs Environmental Protection Fund. Chlad played an instrumental role in organizing the 2020 Adirondack Park Environmental Lobby Day to heighten legislatorsâ consciousness about the Adirondack Park which led, in part, to passage of the Randy Preston Road Salt Reduction Act of 2020 which was recently signed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo. âAdirondack Wild has admired Kevinâ