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The Association for the Protection of the Adirondacks (AFPA) will hold its 107th annual membership meeting at 10 a.m. on Thursday, May 15 at the Mirror Lake Inn in Lake Placid.
The theme for the meeting is “A Gift of Wildness: Managing the Adirondack Forest Preserve for Present and Future Generations.”
The meeting is open to the public as well as to members.
AFPA welcomes all to meet its conservation team, staff and trustees.
The featured after-lunch speaker is Department of Environmental Conservation Assistant Commissioner for Natural Resources Chris Amato, who will address DEC’s current and future management planning for the New York State Forest Preserve.
The annual meeting features
• Highlights of the Association’s Community Conservation and Advocacy programs, and general business of AFPA
• Award presentations, including the Adirondack Achievement Award to Peter Bauer for his 13 years as leader of the Residents’ Committee to Protect the Adirondacks
• Discussion of Amato’s presentation from a panel of experts: Mike DiNunzio, AFPA; Dirk Bryant, Adirondack Nature Conservancy; Michael Washburn, Residents’ Committee to Protect the Adirondacks; and Stacy McNulty, College of Environmental Science and Forestry’s Adirondack Ecological Center in Newcomb.
Registration for lunch and the meeting is payable at the meeting. Advance reservations are requested by May 12 by calling April VanHeusen at (518) 377-1452, Ext. 304, or by emailing avanheusen@protectadks.org.
The Association for the Protection of the Adirondacks, founded in 1901, is the oldest organized nonprofit advocate and membership organization for the Adirondack Park.
With the support of 2,000 members, AFPA is dedicated to sustaining the ecological integrity and mutual well-being of the natural and human communities of the Adirondacks.
Programs focus on wildland conservation, private land stewardship and human communities in the Adirondack Park.
The Association also operates the Adirondack Research Library dedicated to fostering knowledge about the Adirondacks.
For further information about the Association, visit www.protectadks.org.