For Immediate Release: July 6, 2001
Contact:
Victoria Hristovski | Director Public Information | Adirondack Park Agency
contact@apa.ny.gov | (518) 891-4050
RAY BROOK - This month’s Adirondack Park Agency meeting will be held July 12 and 13 at the headquarters in Ray Brook.
On Thursday of this month’s full board meeting, Agency members will welcome Douglas B. Schelleng, a new designee for Empire State Development. Agency members will also welcome new staff member Andy Flynn, recent editor of the Adirondack Daily Enterprise, to the position of Senior Public Information Specialist for the Paul Smith’s and Newcomb Visitors Interpretive Centers. Andy has a degree in communications from Fredonia. He has worked at the Enterprise from 1994-1996 as a news reporter with a stint at the Lake Placid News for two years before returning to the Enterprise in 1998 as city editor and then managing editor. Andy is a jack-of-all-trades in newspaper and radio. He brings a wealth of experience in the communications field, and as a Tupper lake native, a wealth of local and regional insight. Andy enjoys cooking, woodworking, painting, hiking, camping, playing the banjo, amateur radio operating and vegetable gardening.
On Friday, Sean Connin , the Agency's freshwater resources analyst, will make a presentation at 9 a.m. to Park Ecology Committee members on the ecology of invasive aquatic species and the Agency’s program initiative. Because the spread of invasive aquatic species is often a foremost concern among lake managers and landowners, he will present a description of a proposed approach to resolving the issue using a Park-wide planning and collaborative approach. The Agency staff has discussed the concepts of a New York State program initiative in forums such as the June St Lawrence Conference on the Adirondacks and will bring the Agency up to date on staff's latest thoughts on the issue and feedback received from the public.
This month’s new projects to come before the Board are: A two-lot subdivision involving wetlands in the Town of Franklin (Franklin County); the use of SONAR as a demonstration project for the control of Eurasian water milfoil at four sites in the town of Bolton (Warren County). Sonar is an EPA and state registered aquatic herbicide proposed for control of dense beds of non-native Eurasian water milfoil. The Board will decide whether to hold a public hearing due to staff concerns on the proposed concentration and duration of treatment in order to protect the native wetland plants and to promote restoration of the wetland communities. The Board will also consider a request for a permit amendment to allow a project in Resource Management, in the Town of Essex, in Essex County, to be undertaken and completed in 2002.
A Strategic Plan update and a presentation and discussion of the Agency’s Citizen’s Guide is scheduled for Thursday, July 12 during the Administration Committee.
An update and discussion of the permanent exhibit and lobby exhibit at the Paul Smith’s Visitors Interpretive Center will be given by Director of Interpretive Programs Sandra Bureau and Exhibit Artist, Cara McCann.
Next month’s Agency meeting will be held in North Creek, August 9-10, 2001 at the Copperfield Inn. Please call 518-891-4050 for more details.