Gov. Kathy Hochul has expressed a desire to purchase the majority of acreage of Whitney Park, the 36,600-acre tract of vast forests and lakes in the Adirondacks.
Hochul wrote to the trustees of the estate of John Hendrickson, who died in 2024, about the future of the property Hendrickson left behind in Long Lake. The letter was also addressed to Todd Interests, the Texas development company that this spring secured the rights to buy Whitney Park from the estate.
In the letter, Hochul said her administration wants to work with the trustees to find a resolution that “preserves” the property and potentially add much of it to the Adirondack Forest Preserve…