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Adirondack Wild honors Linck, Weber

The Paul Schaefer Wilderness Award was conveyed to recently retired Adirondack Park Agency natural resource planners and supervisors Walter Linck (picured) and Richard Weber by Adirondack Wild: Friends of the Forest Preserve. Both men are residents of Saranac Lake. (Photo provided — Adirondack Wild)

Adirondack Wild: Friends of the Forest Preserve conveyed its annual awards to five Adirondack residents on Friday, Septe. 24 at the Tannery Pond Community Center in North Creek.

The Paul Schaefer Wilderness Award was conveyed to recently retired Adirondack Park Agency natural resource planners and supervisors Walter (Walt) Linck and Richard (Rick) Weber. Both men are residents of Saranac Lake. For the past 20 years, Linck and Weber steered the APA in Ray Brook toward the protection and preservation of the natural resources of the Adirondack Park’s state lands, the forest preserve.

“Their high standards employed to enhance management plans, private land permits and wild land policies across the Park admirably reflected the legacy left by the 20th century’s foremost Adirondack wilderness coalition leader Paul Schaefer (1908-1996),” Adirondack Wild’s award states.

Prior to his career at the APA, Linck led wilderness canoe trips from his family’s camp on Raquette Lake, earned his master’s in environmental science at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, and led the Audubon Expedition Institute and Adirondack AmeriCorps program in Long Lake. Rick Weber also graduated from SUNY ESF and earned a master’s degree from the University of Michigan’s School of Natural Resources. Prior to coming to the APA, he worked at the LA Group for over 13 years in a variety of positions and was a National Park Planning Advisor to the Republic of Panama where he prepared a management plan for the largest biosphere reserve in Central America.

Adirondack Wild’s Wild Stewardship Award was presented to Westport resident Martha Swan, founder and executive director of John Brown Lives! Since 1999, Martha and JBL! have addressed civil rights, climate justice, human trafficking, immigrant rights, mass incarceration and voting rights. Under Martha’s leadership, JBL! became the Friends group of John Brown Farm State Historic Site in North Elba. While not directing JBL! Martha teaches at the Newcomb Central School.

The Paul Schaefer Wilderness Award was conveyed to recently retired Adirondack Park Agency natural resource planners and supervisors Richard Weber (picured) and Walter Linck by Adirondack Wild: Friends of the Forest Preserve. Both men are residents of Saranac Lake. (Photo provided — Adirondack Wild)

Keeseville resident Terry Jandreau was presented with Adirondack Wild’s 25 Year Service award for his 25 years of devoted friendship, board leadership and service to the nonprofits the Association for the Protection of the Adirondacks and, since 2010, Adirondack Wild. Terry has served as treasurer and currently serves as chair of the board of Adirondack Wild: Friends of the Forest Preserve.

North Creek resident Evelyn Greene was named 2021 Champion of the Forest Preserve.

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