Campaign Spotlight: Rowe Property, Split Rock Wildway, New York

For over a century, the Adirondacks have served as both a favorite recreation destination and a safe haven for wildlife, but as development encroaches this magnificent park risks becoming an ecological island.

To safeguard this exceptional natural heritage, the Northeast Wilderness Trust is working to preserve the Split Rock Wildway—a habitat linkage from the eastern shore of Lake Champlain to the High Peaks of the Adirondacks.

The Wildway is now just a patchwork of unprotected private wildlands—if left unpreserved, development will fragment this crucial corridor, resulting in habitat loss, and isolated and vulnerable wildlife populations.
We must raise $146,000 to purchase the Rowe Forest, a pivotal parcel in the Wildway, by September 2008.

We are two-thirds of the way towards this fundraising goal with just $35,000 left to go, but time is running out.

Please join us in our efforts to protect this ecologically significant habitat by making a donation today, and help ensure that future generations of all species may continue to thrive in the refuge of the wild.

Conservation of the Rowe property will:

♦ conserve part of the most biologically diverse area of the Adirondack region;
♦ preserve critical wildlife habitat and a healthy forest;
♦ expand the Wildway westward;
♦ advance our efforts to connect the Wildway to the Jay Range Wilderness;
♦ prevent the logging and development of the Rowe property; and
♦ encumber development on adjacent lands held by the same property owner.

Click here for a detailed map of the Split Rock Wildway