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Please Help with our Member Survey!
As we continue our efforts to make ALA more efficient in our operation, more complete in our communication, and more responsive to your needs, it has occurred to us that more information from you, our members, is critical to our mission.
In that light, we have created two surveys we ask you to complete and submit. Please only submit one survey each per Association.
The first is to help us update our directory of lake associations and their board members within the Park, and we plan to create a directory of this for everyone’s usage. The link to that survey is HERE.
The second is more comprehensive, and asks about your association’s activities, concerns, funding, and more…with this, we will develop a series of webinars, focus our speaker topics for the 2026 Symposium, and gain more insight into how we can best help your Association. That survey is located HERE.
In that light, we have created two surveys we ask you to complete and submit. Please only submit one survey each per Association.
The first is to help us update our directory of lake associations and their board members within the Park, and we plan to create a directory of this for everyone’s usage. The link to that survey is HERE.
The second is more comprehensive, and asks about your association’s activities, concerns, funding, and more…with this, we will develop a series of webinars, focus our speaker topics for the 2026 Symposium, and gain more insight into how we can best help your Association. That survey is located HERE.
ALA Announces New Board for 2025-2026
As new challenges appear on the horizon for Adirondack waterways, the Adirondack Lakes Alliance is building resources to help stewards throughout the park protect and manage their beloved lakes.
Following a successful symposium in June, the ALA welcomed a new board member, Mary Johnson, President and Founder of Chateaugay Lake Foundation, bringing the Board of Directors to seven. The board appointed Rosalba Torre as Treasurer and Leonard “Lenny” Schantz as Recording Secretary. Scott Ireland will remain as Executive Director of the non-profit.
“Our lakes are threatened by invasive species, road salt and in some cases, over-development,” Ireland said. “The ALA is dedicated to making reliable information available and helping lake associations meet the challenges.”
The ALA is organized into five regions, A through E, each represented by a member of the board who is responsible for direct communication with members of the lake associations in each region.
Region A: the portions of Franklin and Clinton County inside the Blue Line - Mary Johnson
Region B: Essex County - Leigh Hornbeck
Region C: the portions of Warren, Washington and Saratoga county inside the Blue Line - Rosalba Torre
Region D: Hamilton County and the portion of Fulton County inside the Blue Line - Michele Curry
Region E: Portions of Herkimer, Oneida, Lewis and St. Lawrence counties - open
In addition, Nancy Mueller, CSLAP Coordinator for the NYS Federation of Lake Associations, joins the Board as a Director at Large.
In addition to the Board of Directors, the ALA also benefits from the guidance of an advisory board. Its members are Zoȅ Smith, Vice President of Strategic Initiatives, Paul Smith's College; Guy Middleton, Executive Director, Upper Saranac Foundation; Jane Smith, Co-Founder of ALA, Jackie Bowen, Director of Conservation for the Adirondack Council; Brendan Wiltse, Executive Director of the Lake George Association; Sunita Halasz, Clean Water Community Advocate at the Adirondack Council, Bill Farber, former Hamilton County Board of Supervisors Chairman, and Assembly Member Matt Simpson, 114th Assembly District.
“I am delighted to announce this year’s team of board members and advisors,” Ireland said. “The experience and passion amongst the Board will allow ALA to further spread our mission across the Park, and I am looking to work with the team to bring some great new ideas to our efforts.”
Following a successful symposium in June, the ALA welcomed a new board member, Mary Johnson, President and Founder of Chateaugay Lake Foundation, bringing the Board of Directors to seven. The board appointed Rosalba Torre as Treasurer and Leonard “Lenny” Schantz as Recording Secretary. Scott Ireland will remain as Executive Director of the non-profit.
“Our lakes are threatened by invasive species, road salt and in some cases, over-development,” Ireland said. “The ALA is dedicated to making reliable information available and helping lake associations meet the challenges.”
The ALA is organized into five regions, A through E, each represented by a member of the board who is responsible for direct communication with members of the lake associations in each region.
Region A: the portions of Franklin and Clinton County inside the Blue Line - Mary Johnson
Region B: Essex County - Leigh Hornbeck
Region C: the portions of Warren, Washington and Saratoga county inside the Blue Line - Rosalba Torre
Region D: Hamilton County and the portion of Fulton County inside the Blue Line - Michele Curry
Region E: Portions of Herkimer, Oneida, Lewis and St. Lawrence counties - open
In addition, Nancy Mueller, CSLAP Coordinator for the NYS Federation of Lake Associations, joins the Board as a Director at Large.
In addition to the Board of Directors, the ALA also benefits from the guidance of an advisory board. Its members are Zoȅ Smith, Vice President of Strategic Initiatives, Paul Smith's College; Guy Middleton, Executive Director, Upper Saranac Foundation; Jane Smith, Co-Founder of ALA, Jackie Bowen, Director of Conservation for the Adirondack Council; Brendan Wiltse, Executive Director of the Lake George Association; Sunita Halasz, Clean Water Community Advocate at the Adirondack Council, Bill Farber, former Hamilton County Board of Supervisors Chairman, and Assembly Member Matt Simpson, 114th Assembly District.
“I am delighted to announce this year’s team of board members and advisors,” Ireland said. “The experience and passion amongst the Board will allow ALA to further spread our mission across the Park, and I am looking to work with the team to bring some great new ideas to our efforts.”
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Welcome to the Home of Adirondack Lakes Alliance, Inc. We appreciate your interest in ALA and hope
that your association will join us in our collective efforts to curb the introduction and spread of aquatic
invasive species within the Adirondack region. Association and individual memberships help to support
the work of Adirondack Lakes Alliance in addressing issues critical to the nearly 3,000 lakes, rivers and
ponds found in this area. ALA is a non-profit 501c3 organization.
Click here to download the 2025 Membership Form to pay by check or mail.
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