The New York League of Conservation Voters has honored the work of The Adirondack Council at its 2010 Eco-Breakfast. Founded in 1975, the Adirondack Council is a privately funded, not-for-profit organization dedicated to ensuring the ecological integrity and wild character of New York’s Adirondack Park, the largest park in the contiguous United States.

The Adirondack Park contains the largest, intact deciduous forest remaining in the world. It is home to nearly all of the old-growth forest and wilderness in the Northeast.

The vent was held December 9th at the Fort Orange Club on Washington Avenue in Albany. Speakers at the event included newly elected NYS Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli and recently retired New York State Parks Commissioner Carol Ash; as well as League of Conservation Voters President Marcia Bystryn and League Capital District rep James Melius.

Headquartered in the Adirondack Park hamlet of Elizabethtown, the Adirondack Council carries out its mission through research, education, advocacy and legal action. Its government relations and communications office is located a block from the Empire State Plaza government complex in Albany.

The Adirondack Council’s four-volume 2020 VISION land-use planning studies on the park led directly to the creation of the NYS Open Space Conservation Plan, the State’s blueprint for public land acquisitions. The Council’s annual State of the Park reports are the most comprehensive review of government officials’ actions and their impact on the environment published on behalf of any park in the United States. The Council is a national leader in the fight against the air pollution that leads to acid rain and climate change. The Council doesn’t accept government grants or taxpayer-supported donations of any kind.

The Adirondack Council began as a collaboration of national, regional and local environmental organizations, with a single staff member and a handful of donors. It has grown to a staff of 14 full time professionals, with members in all 50 United States and on four continents.

The League of Conservation Voters also honored the work of the New York Preservation League.