An avid hiker, camper, biker, kayaker, and skier, Jeff Jones has spent every free moment, during all seasons, among the Adirondack mountains.  

He has also been involved in Adirondack environmental protection initiatives since 1991.  Notably, he was one of the five environmentalist defendants in the landmark case of  Adirondack League Club v. Sierra Club, where New York State’s highest courts opened the state’s rivers to recreational boating.  On June 15, 1991 five individuals, including Jones, traveled in two canoes and a kayak down the South Branch section of the Moose River (the South Branch). That portion of the river runs through property privately owned by the Plaintiff, Adirondack League Club (ALC). ALC, a private club, preserves 50,000 acres surrounding the South Branch for exclusive use by its members.

ALC sued the five individuals and the Sierra Club, who organized the recreational excursion, for trespass. Defendants responded that the South Branch is navigable in fact and therefore that they were entitled to an easement reserved for general public use of such waters. The State of New York and the Adirondack Mountain Club intervened as Defendants, and in 1998 ruled the river was navigable.

He has written extensively on Adirondack issues for Adirondack Life, Outdoor, Adirondack Explorer, and UpRiver/DownRiver.  Familiar with the High Peaks and Central Adirondacks as a skier and hiker, Jones has worked as a lobbyist and publicist on North Country issues ranging from preventing development of Forever Wild lands to rationalizing prison construction.