2 interesting articles about the Adriondacks from the NYTimes:

Adirondacks Are Hot. That’s Good. Or Not.

Logging Is Part of a Plan to Preserve Adirondacks

Which has this multimedia presentation:
http://www.nytimes.com

A poet from Johnsburg, Jeanne Robert Foster, echoes the fears of many who live here and love it: “And the way things are going there won’t be woods very long, or wilderness; it’ll be imitation ranches, and ski runs, and places called by names that the folks who lived there years and years ago never heard of.”