Governor Nelson Rockefeller signs the Adirondack Park Agency’s Private Land Use and Development Plan into law in 1973. Behind him stand APA Chairman Richard W. Lawerence (left), Perry Duryea (center) and Bernard C. Smith (right), Chairman of the New York State Senate’s Environmental Conservation Committee.

Part of Governor Nelson Rockefeller signs the Adirondack Park Agency’s Private Land Use and Development Plan into law in 1973. Behind him stand APA Chairman Richard W. Lawerence (left), Perry Duryea (center) and Bernard C. Smith (right), Chairman of the New York State Senate’s Environmental Conservation Committee.