the Enterprise staff This past week in the Adirondacks, the state Department of Environmental Conservation rescued fishermen from a floating ice sheet, helped an injured snowmobiler and and rescued a couple whose vehicle got stuck on a snowmobile trail. –
– On Mar. 1 at 3 p.m., DEC environmental conservation police officers (ECOs), DEC forest rangers and the Cumberland Head Fire Department helped two anglers stranded on a floating ice sheet on Lake Champlain in the town of Plattsburgh. Fire department personnel accessed the men, from Plattsburgh, with an inflatable rescue craft and brought one of them safely to shore. When rangers arrived on scene, two fire department personnel and the second angler and his gear were still on the ice sheet. ECOs and rangers launched the airboat, and Ranger Glen Bronson was able to retrieve all parties and gear from the ice and bring them back to shore.
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Former APA board member Chad Dawson joins Adirondack Wild board
Gwendolyn Craig Adirondack Explorer
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ALBANY Chad Dawson, the Adirondack Park Agency board member who resigned late last year out of frustration with the agency and state Department of Environmental Conservation, has taken a new position with an environmental advocacy group.
Dawson, a leading expert on natural resource management, was elected Tuesday to the board of directors for Adirondack Wild: Friends of the Forest Preserve. The professor emeritus of recreation resources management at the state University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, will focus on planning management in forest preserve, including the Adirondack and Catskill parks, according to a news release.
Criticizing New York DEC, Park Agency board member resigns
Chad Dawson s announcement follows approval of items he opposed
Gwendolyn Craig Adirondack Explorer
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The view from Nippletop Mountain, one of the Adirondack Park High Peaks accessible from the Adirondack Mountain Reserve. (Gwendolyn Craig/Adirondack Explorer)Gwendolyn Craig
SARANAC LAKE Chad Dawson, an Adirondack Park Agency board member who has advocated for protecting the park’s wilderness character, said at the end of a contentious meeting on Thursday that he will submit his resignation to Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
Dawson criticized the state Department of Environmental Conservation’s administration for elevating recreational amenities over environmental protection without sufficient study of the consequences.