Life in the Adirondacks and North Country is finding the right balance.
A good example of this are the many Lake Champlain fishing tournaments.
This incredible piece of information was mentioned this morning in an article about the FLW Series Eastern Division tournament on Lake Champlain:
Overall, there were 687 bass weighing 1,839 pounds, 9 ounces caught by 146 pros Thursday. The catch included 127 five-bass limits.
Tags: clinton county·conservation·economic development·fish·lake champlain
We have big “Parks” and little “parks”. In case you haven’t heard, New York State is having a bit of a fiscal issue. While the rest of our “system” languishes in a limbo of budget-extenders, Department of Environmental Conservation and Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation fought their own battle and “won” a small victory.
Every organization with a stake in state budget negotiations is doing the same with mixed results. You could say that I’m one of those “mixed results”. And like most things in life, there are two sides of the coin.
Update: Mountain Visions recognizes this game.
Legislature Successfully Defends Paterson’s Assualt On EPF
Paterson tossed a grenade into the assembly and senate chambers and waited for someone to dive on it. Of course there probably isn’t one upstanding human being in the legislature, so they did the only thing they could, they tossed the EPF on it to save themselves.
I like the traditional Adirondack Yellow-on-Brown, but maybe the Blue is more watery.
Under the leadership of the Adirondack North Country Association (ANCA) communities from Warren, Hamilton, Herkimer and Oneida Counties along the Central Adirondack Trail Scenic Byway will now have a new theme and logo to set their special travel route apart from other New York State Scenic Byways. The new logo reflects the “Waterways Crescent Connection” theme that was developed by ANCA, Fuller Communications and community representatives who participated in a regional marketing and branding project that explored the many sites, attractions, and activities located along the Byway that are so appealing to today’s travelers.
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Tags: advertising·branding·economic development·scenic byways
Following the news of the Adirondack Council suing the Adirondack Park Agency (APA), I mentioned to someone that lawsuits are quickly becoming a norm in any regulatory process in the Adirondacks. Seems like there could be a better way to get things done. Two hostile parties rarely reach mutually satisfying results.
Well, another one just dropped into my mailbox:
ALBANY, N.Y. — The Adirondacks’ leading conservation groups, the Adirondack Mountain Club (ADK) and Protect the Adirondacks! (PROTECT), filed a lawsuit Tuesday in state Supreme Court in Albany to force the Adirondack Park Agency (APA) to adhere to state law and classify a state-owned wilderness canoe route in the heart of the Adirondacks.
“We are forced to seek redress in the courts because, despite the best efforts of many different parties, our state agencies failed to settle some important matters regarding implementation of the State Land Master Plan,” said David Gibson, executive director of PROTECT “We go to court for all state-owned waters in the Forest Preserve, not merely to settle the classification of Lows Lake. Classification drives management direction. We seek better direction about how to manage wild waters in the Forest Preserve for the benefit of people in the central Adirondacks, visitors from all across the country and Canada and many more who may never paddle these waters, but who nonetheless appreciate the way they are managed for future generations.” Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: conservation·economic development·environment·wilderness
Destination branding can be a fun and exciting exercise. Really.
I don’t want to bore you with a bunch of marketing jargon, but a little setup might be fun:
Who is promoting “the Adirondacks”? Just off the top of my head:
Have you heard about the Central Adirondack Trail Marketing and Branding Project? It seems they have come up with a Final Theme Statement for the Central Adirondack Scenic Byway, now known as The Waterways Crescent Connection:
The Waterways Crescent Connection – integrates the unique intrinsic scenic and natural, recreational, and historic and cultural experiences of the Central Adirondack Trail.
All of these special qualities are dominated by the enormous variety of water resources in and along the waterways–natural and man-made, in wilderness as well as in urban settings—that exist along the entire Scenic Byway.
The term crescent evokes the visual image of the very distinctive shape of the Scenic Byway.
Connection highlights the overriding geographic aspects of the route – connections to and between the diverse waterways that parallel, and or, intercept the route, and the diverse transportation and four-season recreational opportunities they provide. Connection sets the stage for the history of how those who have lived along the byway route and waterways have used the lakes, rivers, ponds, streams, and canals for military, transportation, and recreational purposes, and for their livelihoods. It also conveys the cultural and community relationships that exist and are nurtured today by those waterways.
A quick search reveals that the term, “Waterways Crescent” is wide-open for marketing purposes. In fact, the domain “waterwayscrescent.com” is still available. Who will be the proud owner?
More fascinating for me is the former Crescent bicycle brand from Sweden. (via Bikelog) You gotta love the Swedes. Well, that was totally off-topic.
It’s been fun writing about the Central Adirondack Trail.
Tags: advertising·branding·economic development·scenic byways
Not a whole lot has changed since last year’s report. Scratch that, almost everything is different, just the tourism marketing remains the same. It’s cool to be able to buy your own ROI study. (Did you know that penning nice ROI studies can get you contracts and advisory roles?) Here are the New York State and Adirondack highlights as I see them:
Silly me. Had a meeting on Saturday – typical blah, blah, blah. K. was nice enough to provide some meeting supplies. Always count on a schoolteacher to have plenty of pads and pencils. Of course, I immediately become fascinated with the pencils (sorry folks!). I gotta get out more, as some might say, because I had never seen these before.
The Blackfeet Indian Pencil
“Hey, what’s up with these pencils?” It seems that K’s father was also a schoolteacher who used to supply his kids with these pencils. “Really, is that the box?” The box was in prime, unopened condition. She mentioned something about 25 years ago…maybe that’s when her dad passed? Anyway, full-box, all nicely pointy.
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