Wildlife Conservation Society’s Adirondack Communities and Conservation Program:

The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) saves wildlife and wild lands, achieving this mission through careful science, international conservation, education, and the management of the world's largest system of urban wildlife parks, led by the flagship Bronx Zoo. Together, these activities change individual attitudes toward nature and help people imagine wildlife and humans living in sustainable interaction on both a local and a global scale.  Today WCS is at work in 53 nations across Africa, Asia, Latin America and North America, protecting wild landscapes that are home to a vast variety of species. 

In 1995, WCS established the Adirondack Communities and Conservation Program (ACCP) to help residents understand their relationship to the natural environment within the unique structure of the Adirondack Park.  ACCP strives to promote healthy human communities and wildlife conservation in the Adirondacks through an information-based, cooperative approach to research, community involvement, and outreach.

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Natural History Museum of the Adirondacks:

The Wild Center, built in the heart of New York’s six-million acre Adirondack Park, is a major new museum that mixes the indoors and outdoors, live and digital, in unusual ways. There are waterfalls inside, and exhibit labels in the woods outside. Hiking trails through the Wild Center’s 31-acre campus are like museum exhibit halls, except they’re in the forest, with labels that change with the seasons. Indoors, there’s a marsh that seems to flow into a real wetland outside the building. The live otters mix with the splashing cascade of falling water from a trout-filled stream. Films from field scientists doing research in the Adirondacks showcase the world that surrounds the Museum. The Museum’s newest exhibit, Wings Over the Adirondacks, will be unveiled in the summer of 2007.

The Wild Center/Natural History Museum of the Adirondacks
45 Museum Drive
Tupper Lake, NY  12986
518-359-7800
www.wildcenter.org

New York State Department of Environmental Conservation:

The Department of Environmental Conservation is the state agency directed toward protecting and enhancing the environment of New York State. The mission of the Department, as described in the New York State Environmental Conservation Law, is to: "conserve, improve, and protect its natural resources and environment, and control water, land and air pollution, in order to enhance the health, safety and welfare of the people of the state and their overall economic and social well being." The DEC is responsible for administration and enforcement of the Environmental Conservation Law.

For more information, contact:
Division of Fish, Wildlife, and Marine Resources, Bureau of Wildlife
New York State Dept. of Environmental Conservation
625 Broadway
Albany, NY 12233
(518) 402-8919
www.dec.state.ny.us

BioDiversity Research Institute:

BioDiversity Research Institute (BRI) is a Maine-based nonprofit group dedicated to progressive environmental research and education. Avian research and aquatic toxicology are the primary focus of BRI’s work. Loons and other piscivorous (fish-eating) birds that are high in the food chain are used as indicators of the health and condition of the aquatic environment. 

For more information, contact:
BioDiversity Research Institute
411 Route 1, Suite 1
Falmouth, ME 04105
(207) 781-3324
www.briloon.org

Audubon Society of New York State, Inc.:

The Audubon Society of New York State, Inc. is an independent state Audubon society that works to administer its lands for protection of water quality and wildlife habitat, and to encourage public education and involvement in water dependent wildlife conservation and water quality protection. ASNY runs the New York Loon Conservation Project which has monitored the migratory and breeding populations of loons in New York State since 1987.

For more information, contact:
New York Loon Conservation Project
c/o Audubon Society of New York State, Inc.
46 Rarick Rd.
Selkirk, NY 12158
(518)-767-9051, ext. 11
www.audubonintl.org/programs/asny