Protect the Adirondacks selects new Deputy Director

NORTH CREEK | Protect the Adirondacks has invited Claudia Braymer to join their team as new Deputy Director. Braymer is an environmental attorney and local government official who has worked on environmental cases across New York State and was co-counsel on Protect the Adirondacks' successful lawsuit that upheld and defended the Forever Wild clause in the State Constitution in 2021. She also serves as a supervisor, elected from the City of Glens Falls, on the Warren County Board of Supervisors. As Deputy Director, Braymer will work on all program and administrative issues at Protect the Adirondacks. Her hiring is part of the organization's long-term staff succession planning. At some point within the next few years, she will succeed Peter Bauer as Executive Director. In welcoming Braymer, Protect the Adirondacks Chairman Charles Clusen said, "We're thrilled to bring Claudia Braymer aboard. There are few people out there with the set of skills that Claudia brings as an experienced environmental attorney, as someone who worked with us for more than 10 years to defend Forever Wild, who has strong experiences with regional and local planning and zoning, who has served in local government and knows the realities and challenges facing Adirondack Park and North Country communities, who has trekked all around the Park, and who has an unquenchable passion for the Forest Preserve and wild beauty of the Adirondack Park. Claudia has made her life in the North Country and we're very pleased that [she] will be the face of the future of Protect the Adirondacks." For more than 10 years, Braymer has been in the private practice of law practicing in the areas of environmental law, zoning and planning, real estate, and municipal law. She has represented environmental groups, community activists, and individual landowners before local municipal boards and state agencies, including the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) and the Adirondack Park Agency (APA). She was one of the attorneys for Protect the Adirondacks in the historic Article 14 case that found that the extra-wide Class II trails in the Forest Preserve approved and constructed by DEC and APA violated the Constitution. Braymer also serves as a co-chair of the Adirondack and Catskill Forest Preserve committee of the Environmental Law Section of the New York State Bar Association. She holds a degree in environmental resource management from the Pennsylvania State University. Braymer joins Christopher Amato at Protect the Adirondacks, "two of the top environmental attorneys in the state and on our staff," noted Bauer. "She will hit the ground running to undertake policy research and assess legal compliance of state land use regulatory and Forest Preserve management decisions (and) will be active in Albany and throughout the Adirondacks to boost our work and impact." Braymer lives in Glens Falls with her husband and their two children. They enjoy hiking, canoeing in their new Hornbeck canoe, and exploring wilderness areas throughout the Adirondacks. Her first day at Protect the Adirondacks is Feb. 1.

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