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Grassroots Activism and the American Wilderness

Digital Exhibits on John S. Apperson Jr. and Paul Schaefer: Pioneers in the Adirondack Park Conservation Movement

Three men making camp at Slant Rock on the Johns Brook trail up Mount Marcy, NY, June 1920.

This Land is Your Land: The Birth of 'Forever Wild'

Pulpwood logs almost completely covering the surface of the Hudson River as they float near Lake Luzerne, NY. An empty boat is hemmed in by the logs along the shore, May 24, 1931.

Natural Enemies: Growing Views on Conservation

John S. Apperson Jr. and Dr. Irving Langmuir looking out over the Adirondack Mountains from the summit of Mount Marcy, NY in 1912

John Apperson's Early Battles

Birthday party with Mohawk Valley Hiking Club members Gertrude Schaefer Fogarty, Marion Lipe, Muriel Allen, and Carolyn Keseberg Schaefer, 1931.

Wild at Heart: The Education of Paul Schaefer

Public Hearing of the Join Legislative Committee on River Regulation, January 20, 1950.

The Black River Wars

Governor Nelson Rockefeller signs the Adirondack Park Agency's Private Land Use and Development Plan into law in 1973. Behind him stand APA Chairman Richard W. Lawerence (left), Perry Duryea (center) and Bernard C. Smith (Right), Chairman of the New York State Senate's Environmental Conservation Committee.

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