Dashing through the snow.

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New York conservation and parks officials have issued a snowmobile plan for the Adirondack State Park that would connect communities across the 6-million-acre park with long-distance routes to boost winter tourism. Environmentalists worry that the plan fails to adequately assess potential pollution and may exceed the cap on trails in the Land Master Plan. The master plan prohibits increasing total miles of trails from when the plan was adopted in 1972. The state agencies say...