Thank you for joining us at our 2026 Symposium.

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 This year's ALA Symposium theme was Adirondack Lakes in Focus - Challenges, Solutions and Shared Stewardship. We firmly believe that in order to be successful across the Park, we need to continue to work together to see our watersheds as vitally connected, as we are to one another.

SPEAKERS

Our first highlighted speaker is Dave Kanietakeron Fadden,   Director of the Six Nations Iroquois Cultural Center in Onchiota, NY will present his latest book, co-authored with Curt Stager, PhD, from Paul Smith's College. The book, "The First Adirondackers: 12,000 years of Indigenous Peoples in the Adirondack Uplands", presents he and Curt's findings of indigenous people living and thriving in the Adirondacks, and their stewardship of the land and water. The book also highlights Dave's incredible paintings of Mohawk history.
​Following our successful January webinar on wake sports and the environmental concerns associated with these watercraft, Laura Dlugolecki, Lakes and Ponds Policy and Outreach Coordinator for the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation will present Vermont's wake sports regulations, their evolution since the original implementation, and lessons learned along the way.
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After lunch, Sarah Goodrich, Research Scientist from New York's Department of Environmental Conservation, will discuss the DEC's approach to tracking and managing Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs). Given the increasing lake temperatures, increases in lake nutrients, and the possible impact of new watercraft such as wake boats, we can anticipate more frequent reports of such blooms in the future, and knowing how to manage these will be critical skills for all of us.


Our final session for the day will have Sunita Halasz, Clean Water Community Advocate with the Adirondack Council, moderating a panel on "Lake Management in the Age of AIS". The panel will consist of Michele Curry, Blue Mountain Lake Association and Adirondack Lakes Alliance, Brian Greene, Program Director for the Adirondack Park Invasives Plant Program (APIPP), and Guy Middleton, Executive Director of Upper Saranac Foundation and ALA Advisory Board.

Our Mission:

The Adirondack Lakes Alliance, ALA, representing lake and river associations within the Adirondacks, has as its primary mission the protection and preservation of our Adirondack waters.  The ALA provides a forum for lake and river associations to share information and resources and to make recommendations to appropriate state, county and local agencies, and educational and other relevant non-profit organizations, regarding environmental and ecological issues threatening Adirondack lakes and rivers.  (Reviewed and Adopted on August 21, 2014 by ALA Membership)

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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.

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