For many people, time spent in the wilderness is bliss. It’s fulfilling. It’s all encompassing. But it also entails responsibility, both for ourselves and others.

Wilderness is many things. It’s complicated. Wilderness is remote. Wilderness is solitude. It’s far from any roads. Not near a town.

Visit the accessible trail to Sand Pond in the Pepperbox Wilderness.

This lightly-visited tract may not have same cachet as the much larger Siamese Ponds, West Canada Lakes, or Five Ponds Wilderness areas (much less the High Peaks Wilderness), but its charms are equally alluring.

The legacy of Evelyn Greene (1940-2025) lives on in the Adirondacks.

Adirondack Wilderness Advocates today called upon New York State to step up to ensure the best possible protection of what is one of the most significant wild parcels in private ownership in the Eastern United States.