For many, the words "New York" conjure the antithesis of Wilderness. Yet the Wilderness movement was born there; so was Wilderness Society founder Robert Marshall. Home for most of his life was a city brownstone. But summers in the Adirondacks, now a 6-million-acre state park with over a million acres of wilderness, forged his love of wild places.

New York Land Acquisition Efforts
The huge land sales occurring across the Northern Forest haven't missed New York State. The Northern Forest's 26 million acres begin in Tug Hill, a 2,100-square mile plateau in western New York. Just to the east of Tug Hill is the Adirondack Park, which, at 6 million acres, is the largest in the contiguous U.S. The State of New York has a golden opportunity to protect, through acquisition or conservation easement, some 300,000 acres of important lands in both places.
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