Sunday Morning to air show on Finch Paper land sale

The Sunday morning news show, Sunday Morning, is scheduled to air a show showing the extraordinary terrain within the Adirondacks Park recently purchased by the Nature Conservancy from Finch Paper this Summer.

Sunday Morning is expected to air the show on Sunday December 30th. The show airs 9:00 to 10:30 hosted by Charles Osgood.

The beautiful places captured on video include:

The Boreas Ponds, with spectacular views of the High Peaks Wilderness

The Boreas River, a major tributary of the Hudson River, with ice and snow closing in on a ribbon of open water

The Branch River, also a Hudson River tributary, cascading through a mature floodplain forest.

As per my previous post this is a great example of land preservation. Enjoy.

Finch Paper sells 161,000 acres in Adirondack Park

Largest Private Land Holdings in the Adirondacks

Yesterday Finch Paper announced that they sold 161,000 acres of forest land to the Nature Conservancy for $110 million. Finch Paper has been a solid steward of this property for more than 100 years when the company Finch Holding first began accumulating Adirondack land for timber harvesting.

In what has been described as the largest private land holding in the Adirondack Park is now in the hands of the Nature Conservancy for the rest of time. This parcel is a beautiful forest and is filled with hills, streams and gorges. This is prime Adirondack forest and the purchase by the Nature Conservancy will protect this parcel from future development.

This sale comes just a matter of weeks after the family owned Finch Paper was sold to a private equity group. The stated intention of the new owners of Finch Paper is to maintain paper production at its Glenn Falls, NY paper mill. It is not uncommon for paper companies to sell off timber lands and this sale of the 161,00 acres would be consistent with this recent industry trend.