Adirondack National Park

Since this week’s reading focuses on the birth of the Adirondack State Park, I was very interested by an article on Adirondack Almanac called “What would an Adirondack National Park look like?”

In this article, author Pete Nelson decides to have a little fun by exploring what a National Park in the Adirondacks might look like.  First, he talks a little bit about how in 1967, Laurence Rockefeller proposed an immense National Park in the middle of the Adirondacks.  This park would have been the huge - the third largest in the United States at 1,720,000 acres.  This plan was vehemently opposed partly due to the fact that it would have swallowed many communities and towns in the Central Adirondacks, and due to the fact that the Federal government would have needed to acquire almost 600,000 acres of private land.  Another immense national park proposal was never proposed again after Rockefeller but some people do support smaller versions of a National Park in the Adirondacks. Pete Nelson is not a supporter but he goes on to depict his own imaginary versions of National Parks in the Adirondacks.  Here is the link if you want to want to read more!

http://www.adirondackalmanack.com/2014/11/what-would-an-adirondack-national-park-look-like.html

At the end of his article Nelson asks, “What do you think? Does anyone support a modern-day proposal to create an Adirondack National Park?”  I am very curious to hear your opinions!