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Bernard Melewski shares stories of lobbying to save the Adirondack Park
Bernard Melewski has spent most of his life working as an environmental lobbyist, and eight years writing a book about it.
“Inside the Green Lobby: The Fight to Save the Adirondack Park” has just been published by the State University of New York Press.
Melewski, who grew up in Halfmoon, has an abiding love for the Adirondacks and continues to be vitally interested in the park’s welfare.
“I was very fortunate to have an opportunity to have an outsized influence for one individual …,” he says in this week’s Enterprise podcast. “I often describe myself as a political scientist with a law degree and, as a political scientist, to be able to be at the front lines of influence and change over a long period of time, especially on things that are important to all of us, like the environment, I just couldn’t possibly imagine a better career outcome for me.”
One of his important contributions, detailed in the book, was to help end, or at least limit, the acid rain that was killing Adirondack wildlife.
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