Voters across New York will decide this election whether to keep Olympic sports trails on state land in the Adirondacks.

Proposal One is a referendum on a facility already constructed near Lake Placid. It would officially allow Nordic ski and biathlon trails at Mount Van Hoevenberg to stay. In return, the state would add 2,500 acres of new "forever wild" forest to the Adirondack Park.

John Sheehan with the nonprofit Adirondack Council said the project helps to protect the integrity of the park's constitutional protections, while also helping the economy of the local community.

"Its facilities help to support a winter economy in a place that probably wouldn't have much of one without them," Sheehan said. "In many ways [they] help to keep the Adirondacks on the map globally in that people

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