New York State Temporary Study Commission on the Future of the Adirondacks Subject, Correspondence, and Meeting Files
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Overview of the Records
Repository:
New York State Archives
New York State Education Department
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Albany, NY 12230
Summary:
This series contains mainly correspondence, reports, studies, and project proposals involving the temporary commission. The
studies and recommendations of the commission led directly to the creation of the Adirondack Park Agency in 1971. 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; and recreation.
Creator:
Title:
Temporary Study Commission on the Future of the Adirondacks subject, correspondence, and meeting files
Quantity:
Inclusive Dates:
1967-1971
Series Number:
10984
Arrangement
Roughly alphabetical by subject.
Administrative History
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).
Scope and Content Note
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.
Related Material
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
B1830 Harold A. Jerry, Jr. Professional Papers, contains personal copies of records compiled during Jerry's service on the commission
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Partially restricted to protect personal privacy. Resumes and social security numbers are found throughout the series.
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Detailed Description
Dates |
Contents |
Box |
Accretion: 10984-98 |
1970 |
Correspondence |
1 |
1969 January-April |
Correspondence |
1 |
1967-1970 |
Correspondence |
1 |
|
Biographies: Advisory Group |
1 |
1971 |
"A" Correspondence Commission Advisors |
1 |
1969-1971 |
"A" Correspondence Commission Advisors |
1 |
1968-1969 |
Organization of Advisors |
1 |
1971 |
ASC Correspondence |
1 |
1969 May-December |
ASC Correspondence |
1 |
1968 September-November |
ASC Correspondence |
1 |
1966-1971 |
"B" Correspondence |
1 |
1966-1971 |
"C" Correspondence |
1 |
|
Anderson, Robert M., Consultant |
1 |
|
Bowmar, Robert H., Consultant |
1 |
|
Contract #8 Creighton-Hamburg, Inc |
1 |
|
Krasnowiecki, Jan, Consultant |
1 |
|
Contract # C42140 Johnson, Hehr, and Nehin |
1 |
|
Risse, E.M., Consultant |
1 |
|
Correspondence - Semerad |
1 |
|
Van Over, Raymond, Consultant |
1 |
|
Reports - Original Interim |
2 |
|
Mailings to Commission Members Folder 1 |
2 |
|
Mailings to Commission Members Folder 2 |
2 |
|
Mailings to Commission Members Folder 3 |
2 |
1969 January 31-February 1 |
Meeting Notices |
3 |
1968 December 27 |
Meeting Notices |
3 |
1968 November 14 |
Meeting Notices |
3 |
1968 September 24 |
Meeting Notices |
3 |
1970 October 28 |
Meeting Notices |
3 |
1970 October 6 |
Meeting Notices |
3 |
1970 September 30 |
Meeting Notices |
3 |
1970 September 17 |
Meeting Notices |
3 |
1970 September 4 |
Meeting Notices |
3 |
1970 August 13-16 |
Meeting Notices |
3 |
1970 May 27-28 |
Meeting Notices |
3 |
1970 May 5-6 |
Meeting Notices |
3 |
1970 April 3-4 |
Meeting Notices |
3 |
1970 March 6-7 |
Meeting Notices |
3 |
1970 February 17 |
Meeting Notices |
3 |
1970 January 28 |
Meeting Notices |
3 |
1970 February 4 |
Meeting Notices |
3 |
1969 December 16 |
Meeting Notices |
3 |
1969 November 20 |
Meeting Notices |
3 |
1969 October 24-26 |
Meeting Notices |
3 |
1969 September 9-11 |
Meeting Notices |
3 |
1969 August 22-24 |
Meeting Notices |
3 |
1969 July 8-10 |
Meeting Notices |
3 |
1969 June 5 |
Meeting Notices |
3 |
1969 May 16-18 |
Meeting Notices |
3 |
1969 April 24 |
Meeting Notices |
3 |
1969 March 20 |
Meeting Notices |
3 |
1969 March 4 |
Meeting Notices |
3 |
1971 February 2 |
Meeting Notices |
3 |
1970 December 2 |
Meeting Notices |
3 |
1970 November 18 |
Meeting Notices |
3 |
1970 November 12 |
Meeting Notices |
3 |
1970 June 10 |
Meeting Notices |
3 |
1970 May 13 |
Meeting Notices |
3 |
1970 April 30 |
Meeting Notices |
3 |
1970 March 6-7 |
Meeting Notices |
3 |
1970 February 17 |
Meeting Notices |
3 |
1970 January 29 |
Meeting Notices |
3 |
1969 October 16 |
Article 14 Seminar |
3 |
1970 November 5 |
Meeting Notices |
3 |
1969 October 16 |
O'Neil Flow Headquarters |
3 |
|
Meetings"¦A/P, O'Brien, Wickwire |
3 |
|
Planning in Cons. Dept. |
3 |
1970 February 18 |
Saranac Lake - Public Hearing |
3 |
1970 January 22 |
New York City |
3 |
1969 December 10 |
Rochester |
3 |
1969 July 8, August 22 |
Old Forge, Lake George |
3 |
|
Requests for Notice of Hearings |
3 |
|
Requests for Final Report |
4 |
|
Main Report, Tentative Outline |
4 |
|
Index of Technical Reports |
4 |
|
Draft Replies for Nar. Sig. |
4 |
|
HAJ Replies to Letters Addressed to the Governor |
4 |
|
HAJ Replies to Letters Addressed to the Governor |
4 |
|
ASC Files March to 3/31/74 |
5 |
1970-1971 |
Budget - ASC Financial Statements |
5 |
1969-1970 |
Budget - ASC Financial Statements |
5 |
|
Environmental Management And Natural Resources, JLC on |
5 |
1968 |
Metropolitan and Regional Areas Study, JLC (1968 Clipping) |
5 |
|
NY State Forest Practice Board |
5 |
|
New Personnel Descriptions |
5 |
|
Separation of Appointment Reports (Personnel) |
5 |
1971 February 11 |
Requests Received |
6 |
|
Certificates of Approval |
6 |
1967 |
Conservation Council - Proposed Legislation |
6 |
|
Constitutional Convention Report |
6 |
|
Field Inspections, Original Copies of Reports |
7 |
|
Original Copies of Reports |
8 |