On December 31, 2024, Peter Bauer will step down as the Executive Director of Protect the Adirondacks, a position he has held since 2012. Previously, Bauer worked as the Executive Director of the FUND for Lake George, now merged with the Lake George Association, and the Residents’ Committee to Protect the Adirondacks, which merged to form Protect the Adirondacks. He has been a regular contributor to New York Almanack.
Starting in 2025, Bauer will work part-time for Protect the Adirondacks to help with fundraising and special projects. On January 1st, environmental attorney Claudia Braymer will take over as the Executive Director of Protect the Adirondacks.
Bauer recounted the highlights of his work here.
Peter Bauer started his Adirondack Park conservation work on the staff of the Commission on the Adirondacks in the Twenty-First Century in 1989, which was followed by work to help form the Residents’ Committee to Protect the Adirondacks (RCPA) in 1990, and then worked as the RCPA Executive Director from 1994 to 2007.
He worked as the Executive Director of the FUND for Lake George from 2007 to 2012, and as the Executive Director of Protect the Adirondacks from 2012 to 2024.
“When I worked for the Commission on the Adirondacks in the late 1980s I was often the youngest person in the room and as I worked over the last 35 years in Adirondack Park conservation where I drove all around the Adirondacks, Albany and New York going to countless meetings on various issues, I’m now one of the oldest people in the room,” Bauer said. “It’s time to move over and make room for the next generation of leaders in Adirondack conservation.”
Protect the Adirondacks was formed in 2009 as the result of a merger between two long-standing environmental conservation groups in the Adirondack Park, the Resident’s Committee to Protect the Adirondacks (est. 1991) and the Association for the Protection of the Adirondacks (est. 1901).
For more information see www.protectadks.org.
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