 This project is a pro bono effort by Dave Mason and Jim Herman. Dave and Jim ran a boutique strategic planning consulting firm through the 1990’s. Their clients were large, global organizations as well as some government agencies. This scenario development methodology was the core of their practice. They sold the business in late 1999 and after a few years retired and moved to their vacation home in Keene, NY. They have contributed to a number of non-profit and public improvement projects in their town, most notably the Town-Wide Broadband Project.The idea for the project came to us after reading “The Great Experiment in Conservation: Voices from the Adirondack Park” by William Porter, Jon Erickson and Ross Whaley. In this compendium of essays we found a very divergent set of points of view about the Park’s past as well as its future. We immediately recognized an opportunity to apply scenario planning. We started interviewing people around the Park and through Ross Whaley were connected to the Common Ground Alliance, which invited us to present at their annual meeting in Long Lake on July 20, 2011. We continued interviewing based on contacts made through Common Ground Alliance and started developing the full set of scenario development materials. We also read a variety of reports, books and websites. The sources are listed below.Interviewees or Materials Reviewers July, August and September 2011
Bibliography Adirondack Park Regional Assessment Project, published by AATV May 2009, updated August 2011 The Great Experiment in Conservation: Voices from the Adirondack Park, William Porter, Jon Erickson and Ross Whaley, Syracuse University Press, June 2009 The Other Endangered Species, Brian Mann, Adirondack Life, Sept/Oct 2011 page 36 The Adirondack Atlas: A Geographic Portrait of the Adirondack Park, Jerry Jenkins and Andy Keal, Syracuse University Press, April 2004 Climate Change in the Adirondacks, The Path to Sustainability, Jerry Jenkins, Wildlife Conservation Society, 2010 Contested Terrain: A New History of Nature and People in the Adirondack, Philip Terrie, Syracuse University Press, May 2008 Perspectives on the Adirondacks, Barbara McMartin, Syracuse University Press, 2002 Scenic Byways Market Trend Assessment, ANCA, June 2009 Letter to the Regional Economic Council of the North Country from the Adirondack Council, Brian Houseal, August 26, 2011 Letter to the Regional Economic Council of the North Country: Suggestions for Creating Jobs and Economic Growth in the Adirondacks. Ernest E. (Lee) Keet, September 16, 2011 The 2010 Census and the Health of Adirondack Communities: an Update; Ken Strike Ph.D., Protect the Adirondack!, April 2, 2011 The Adirondack Park Regional Assessment Program: An Appraisal; Ken Strike Ph.D. and Lorraine Duvall Ph.D., Protect the Adirondacks!, June 19,2010 Why Cutting Community Health Center Funding Will Raise Health Care Costs. A report on the value of primary care; John Rugge, M.D. , prepared for Congressman Chris Gibson, Hudson Headwaters Health Network, July 2011 The Agricultural Creative Economy: Needs, Opportunities and Market Analysis. A report to the Second Regular Session of the 123rd Legislature by the Maine Department of Agriculture, July 2008 Transforming New York Local Governments from the 18th to the 21st Century…The Carrot Before the Stick; Kenneth Bond, Squire, Sanders and Dempsey LLP, NY, NY, October 25, 2006 A Strategy for Regional Economic Resurgence, Recommendations of the Northern Forest Sustainable Economy Initiative, Joe Short, SEO Project Manager for the Northern Forest Council and the North Country Council, October 2008 Foothills 2020 Community and Economic Development Plan, prepared by residents of Bellmont, Burke, Constable and Chateaugay, NY, January 2008 Blueprint for the Blue Line, The Common Ground Alliance, February 2008 Adirondack Park Local Government Review Board, Policy and Proposal Changes 2010 Adirondack Local Government Issues and Recommendations for Statutory and Constitutional Revisions, Adirondack Local Government Review Board, October 6, 2009 Adirondack Association of Towns and Villages 2011 Legislative Agenda From the “The Adirondacks in the 2st Century” documents:
From Environmental Advocates of NY
We have been pointed at and used an enormous number of websites, particularly related to climate change. We have not kept of running set of links to all these. Vermont has come up repeatedly in our interviews and we suggest this particular website related to Vermont’s effort to draw businesses to relocate there: |
ADK Futures
A pro bono project for the Adirondack Common Ground Alliance, developing a vision, strategy and implementation plan for the Adirondack Park.
ADK Futures 