APA has been chipping away at private property owners in the Adirondacks since its inception! I am from one of those extended families, and watched as land was seized illegally by the state to extend this "Forever Wild" Bullsh!t so some Bronx Indian could drive through the mountains and Oh! and Ah! at the "unspoiled beauty".
I cry for the area of my birth, and need to go vomit that the rape of government on property owners in the mountains continues!
Set aside any potential environmental issues for a second, if that river were to flow thru my farm land then you would have no problem with me building a dam and using the backwater to irrigate my crops?