New York State Temporary Study Commission on the Future of the Adirondacks Subject, Correspondence, and Meeting Files

Roughly alphabetical by subject.

The Temporary Study Commission on the Future of the Adirondacks was appointed by Governor Rockefeller in 1968 to investigate issues that would impact on Adirondack Park use, including private and public lands; wildlife; forest; minerals, water and air; transportation and the economy; recreation; and local government.

The mandate of the commission was to make recommendations that would insure development was consistent with the long-range well-being of the park area as an integrated entity. The studies and recommendations of the commission led directly to the creation of the Adirondack Park Agency (Laws of 1971, Chapter 706).

This series contains mainly correspondence, reports, studies, and project proposals involving the commission. The majority of the correspondence is either to or from the commission's executive secretary, Harold Jerry, Jr.; involves letters of support or concern, requests for reports, personnel issues, and letters to Governor Nelson Rockefeller; or accompanies recommendations, reports, meeting agendas, forms, maps, and newspaper clippings. Significant topics that appear repeatedly in recommendations, proposals, and letters of concern are public and private land, wildlife, water resources, quality and pollution, snowmobiles, hunting, the Gooley Dam, airplanes, scenic easements, logging, zoning, boating, camping, and fishing.

The commission reports and studies range from preliminaries and first drafts to revisions and final products with many pertaining to transportation, recreation, economics, research, and sign control while others are technical, field and consultant reports. Other records include travel vouchers, resumes, budget lists, financial statements, contracts, and Department of the Interior news releases. In addition, there is significant information pertaining to the New York Wild and Scenic Rivers Act of 1971, the Cornell Conference, and the State Conservation Council's Legislative Report.

18880Series 18880, Administrative Files on Establishment and Early Planning of the Adirondack Park Agency, documents some work of the Temporary Study Commission on the Future of the Adirondacks

B1830Series B1830, Harold A. Jerry, Jr. Professional Papers, contains personal copies of records compiled during Jerry's service on the commission

Folder list.

Partially restricted to protect personal privacy. Resumes and social security numbers are found throughout the series.