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, saying 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.