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Alexandra F. — It was a sad day for me yesterday. Seeing what they’ve allowed into Ticonderoga, New York, inside the Adirondack Park. The Adirondack Park is the largest park in the United States. It’s a special place, full of pristine lakes, rivers, biodiversity, high peaks, clean air, and lots of history. It’s my favorite thing about New York State. The locals will joke you can’t build anything in the ADK Park without extensive sign-off. They’re very careful about what’s allowed on or near Lake George and Lake Placid, etc. It’s kept the water clean. I am OK with that. But I never thought I’d see the day that the ADK Park would bend the knee to this kind of industrial destruction. Landowners in the ADK Park must be scratching their heads. Truly rules for thee but not for me. There were so many solar complexes in such a short stretch of road in Ticonderoga yesterday. I’d never seen anything like it. In a town that was vital during the Revolutionary War, where tourists from around the country come to see Fort Ticonderoga. It’s an amazing part of our country’s history, and a place where men risked it all to gain our nation’s freedom. Now it’s consumed by Chinese-manufactured solar panels, coated in PFAS, anchored into prime farmland and grassland soil. Foreign corporations own the land that created the United States of America. If those revolutionary men could see what their descendants have done. They’d fall on their knees. There are hundreds of thousands of solar panels anchored into that earth. It’s an awful thing. The New York State Adirondack Park Agency should be ashamed of itself. Yet another compromised “environmental” agency controlled by New York State. It’s disgusting. And the town boards there that let this happen. The land and the memories of the men who fought there will remember.