Viewpoint:At 50, does the Master Plan need reform?

he Forest Preserve—nearly three million acres of woods, peaks, and water owned and loved by the people of New York and maintained (more or less) as wilderness—is what makes the Adirondacks special. Created by the New York legislature in 1885, strict protections were inscribed in a new state constitution a decade later. The delegates to the 1894 Constitutional Convention, aiming to guard both the watershed flowing from the central plateau and the recreational mecca that