Our friends at Protect the Adirondacks! are planning a canoe-in on August 18th for a Motorless Weller Pond. The Sierra Club Atlantic Chapter's Adirondack Committee is parterning with Protect! as we take part in a great protesting flotilla! Join us and demonstrate for motorless waters in the Adirondack Park. Join the Canoe-In for Motorless Waters on Weller Pond on Saturday, August 18, 2018.
WHAT: Protect the Adirondacks! is hosting a Canoe-In for Motorless Waters on Weller Pond. Sierra Club is partnering in this event.
WHEN: Saturday, August 18, starting at 9AM
WHERE: NYSDEC South Creek (Middle Saranac) Canoe Launch Site, State Route 3, Franklin County (https://www.dec.ny.gov/outdoor/32524.html)
Registration: Please register in advance by clicking here. Canoes will be available for rental at the put-in site, but you MUST register in advance; additional information at the registration link as well.
More Info: We’re aiming to get 100 canoes and kayaks in a flotilla of protest calling for state action to make Weller Pond and Little Weller Pond motorless waters. We urge you to join us in this protest and add your voice to this important issue. This event is free and open to the public.
WHEN: Saturday, August 18, starting at 9AM
WHERE: NYSDEC South Creek (Middle Saranac) Canoe Launch Site, State Route 3, Franklin County (https://www.dec.ny.gov/outdoor/32524.html)
Registration: Please register in advance by clicking here. Canoes will be available for rental at the put-in site, but you MUST register in advance; additional information at the registration link as well.
More Info: We’re aiming to get 100 canoes and kayaks in a flotilla of protest calling for state action to make Weller Pond and Little Weller Pond motorless waters. We urge you to join us in this protest and add your voice to this important issue. This event is free and open to the public.
Register on Protect the Adirondacks! website by clicking here. Help to spread the word and get your family and friends to join in! This will be a complicated event to stage so we need to know how many people are planning to attend this rally. Please use the electronic registration form found here.
We Need More Motorless Waters in the Adirondack Park
Wild places grow fewer each year. The Adirondack Park offers great opportunities for hiking in wild places, where the longer one hikes the more remote the country one can access, but opportunities to do this by boat are limited. For many, canoe or kayak access is how they get to wild places and enjoy Wilderness. Greater opportunities are needed for motorless waters in the Adirondacks and Weller Pond is one such opportunity that must be seized.
A scene from the August 15, 1998 Canoe-In for Wilderness on Little Tupper Lake. This event helped to usher in a golden era of new motorless waters in the Adirondack Park.
Picture by Nancie Battaglia
Picture by Nancie Battaglia
This event is being held in part to commemorate the successful Canoe-In for Wilderness that we held 20 years ago on Little Tupper Lake. August 15, 1998 was a wonderful day of protest. Over 300 people in over 200 canoes, kayaks, rowboats, and one small sail boat, rallied on the open sloping lawn of the Whitney Headquarters on the shore of Little Tupper Lake and then paddled out onto the lake in a massive flotilla in the Canoe-In for Wilderness at Little Tupper Lake. This event was the biggest environmental rally in a very challenging and divisive time in Adirondack Park history. Those who gathered that day were unabashed in their support for a Wilderness classification for the newly purchased Little Tupper Lake.
The wilderness classification of Little Tupper Lake that followed also saw the upgrading the classification of Lake Lila from Primitive to Wilderness. These decisions by the Adirondack Park Agency at the time, led in particularly by Jim Frenette of Tupper Lake, then an APA Board member, and the Pataki Administration, spawned a series of new motorless waters. The Little Tupper Lake classification marked one of the most active periods in the history of the Adirondack Park for the creation of Wilderness lands and motorless waters. The years after the creation of the William C. Whitney Wilderness Area saw the creation of the Round Lake Wilderness, the Madwaska Flow Primitive Area, classification of Henderson Lake as Wilderness, the reclassification of Low’s Lake, classifications of Bog Lake and Clear Pond as Wilderness, and motorless management of Thirteenth Lake, among other wildlands victories. Recent decisions for the Essex Chain Lakes and Boreas Ponds were influenced by this history.
We hope you can join us! Register for the Canoe-In for a Motorless Weller Pond on August 18th!
Tuesday, July 24, 2018
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