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Adirondack Wild questions proposed trail’s constitutionality

Adirondack Wild and a former high-ranking state environmental official contend that the state’s plan to cut a snowmobile trail in the Blue Ridge Wilderness violates the forever-wild clause of the New York Constitution.

Adirondack Wild and Christopher Amato, a former assistant commissioner of the Department of Environmental

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