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John McDonald of Lyons Falls with his seaplane
at Lows Lake, where he and his father have been flying in and
fishing, camping and canoeing for over twenty years. The APA
has decreed that planes will be prohibited from landing on Lows
Lake after three years.
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Sign announcing the statutory “Lake George
Park” on Route 9N west of the Village of Lake George at
the drainage boundary between waters feeding the Hudson River
and Lake George-Lake Champlain-St. Lawrence River. The Lake George
Park Commission, which people thought related to the lake itself
and shorefront, is asserting strict land use control in the lake
watershed, where most of the property is privately owned.
Photo: Peter J. LaGrasse |
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Robin and Ted Galusha and Carol LaGrasse at the
PRFA display at the New East Arms Collectors Association (NEACA)
fair in Saratoga City Center in March. Many of the collectors
are hunters, camp holders, and ATV users who care about the Constitution
and are concerned over the arbitrary state policies in the Adirondack
region.
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Merwin McDonald, 81, at Lows Lake, where he flew
in with son John. By APA ruling, seaplanes will be banned in
three years because the agency has declared the lake to be “wilderness,”
although it is man-made and there are three private houses on
the large area of private shore, as well as a road used by motor
vehicles.
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Sunbeam Camp owned by Industrial Contractors Corp.
on Blue Mountain Road at the oxbow on the St. Regis River in
1999. The camp was on a lease from the Champion International
Corp. After the DEC acquired the land, the agency announced that
the lease was to be terminated and the camp, which was had been
enjoyed for years by many company employees and guests, was later
eradicated and “restored” to nature.
Photo: Carol W. LaGrasse |
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The cozy interior of the main lodge at the Sunbeam
Camp in Franklin County in October 1999. Twenty-nine thousand
acres of land acquired from the Champion International Corporation
was largely designated as “wilderness” by the APA and
DEC. The most beautiful land, that within reach of rivers, was
blocked from all but canoers and hikers, and these camps destroyed.
Nothing is there today.
Photo: Carol W. LaGrasse |
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