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AdkAction’s “Don’t Be Salty” Campaign Inspires Statewide Action

Our Don’t Be Salty ADK and Don’t Be Salty Lake Champlain public outreach initiatives are making waves beyond the Adirondacks! This winter, they will transform into the Don’t Be Salty NY program, led by the NYS Dept. of Environmental Conservation and Dept. of Transportation, aimed at reducing road salt impacts on waterways and ecosystems across the state. It’s a great example of AdkAction’s local ideas shaping statewide action to protect our water.

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“It’s Not About What We Don’t Have”

Day of Action shows what’s possible when a community says yes. By lunchtime, paintbrushes were drying. Volunteers were arriving back at Flanders Park with dirty gloves, full trash bags, and stories to swap. A public art project had taken shape. Fresh produce had found its way into dozens of households.

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Fair Food Card, Six Months In: How Our New WIC Partnership Is Working

At the start of 2026, AdkAction changed how the Fair Food Card project reaches families across the North Country. Instead of enrolling participants directly, we partner with Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) offices in Clinton, Essex, Hamilton, Warren, Franklin, and St. Lawrence Counties to support low-income families of young children.

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Over 5,800 Native Plants Take Root on Indian Lake Landfill in Landmark Community Planting Day

On a drizzly Saturday morning, 77 volunteers gathered at a capped landfill just north of the Town of Indian Lake and got to work. By noon, they had planted more than 5,800 native plants across an eight-acre site, a milestone moment in an ongoing effort to transform one of the

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