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This summer, the Adirondack High Peaks Summit Stewardship Program reached a new milestone, educating half a million hikers on New York’s tallest mountains in its 29 year history.
DEC Statewide Forest Ranger Highlights Forest Ranger Actions for 8/27 – 9/3/18 From a DEC news release: New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Forest Rangers respond to search and rescue incidents statewide. Working with other state agencies, local emergency response organizations, and volunteer search and rescue groups, Forest Rangers locate and extract lost,…
By Mike Lynch
DEC Statewide Forest Ranger Highlights Forest Ranger Actions for 8/19 – 8/25/18 New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Forest Rangers respond to search and rescue incidents statewide. Working with other state agencies, local emergency response organizations, and volunteer search and rescue groups, Forest Rangers locate and extract lost, injured, or distressed people from…
By Mike Lynch
Implementation of Management Actions Underway The High Peaks Wilderness Complex and the Vanderwhacker Mountain Wild Forest Unit Management Plan (UMP) Amendments are final and implementation of the management actions has begun, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Commissioner Basil Seggos announced today. Commissioner Seggos said, “Defining DEC’s management of the Boreas Ponds and…
DEC Statewide Forest Ranger Highlights Forest Ranger Actions for 8/13 – 8/19/18 New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Forest Rangers respond to search and rescue incidents statewide. Working with other state agencies, local emergency response organizations, and volunteer search and rescue groups, Forest Rangers locate and extract lost, injured, or distressed people from the backcountry.…
DEC Statewide Forest Ranger Highlights Forest Ranger Actions for 8/6 – 8/12/18 New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Forest Rangers respond to search and rescue incidents statewide. Working with other state agencies, local emergency response organizations, and volunteer search and rescue groups, Forest Rangers locate and extract lost, injured, or distressed people from…
By Mike Lynch
Forest Ranger Actions for 7/23 – 7/29/18 New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Forest Rangers respond to search and rescue incidents statewide. Working with other state agencies, local emergency response organizations and volunteer search and rescue groups, Forest Rangers locate and extract lost, injured or distressed people from the backcountry. Town of Webb Herkimer…
Protect the Adirondacks notes the removal of hopper rail cars from tracks along the Hudson River near North Creek, where they had sat for years. This is the second removal of stored freight cars from the Adirondack Park this year, after Iowa Pacific Holdings moved a string of oil tankers. Protect’s news release follows:…
By Phil Brown
New York State Police say a man drowned at Buttermilk Falls on the Raquette River on Saturday. Following is a news release from the troopers. On July 28, 2018, at approximately 3 p.m., New York State Police responded to North Point Road in the area of Buttermilk Falls in Long Lake for a report of…
The Department of Environmental Conservation is asking New Yorkers to help in surveying wild turkey populations. Read the news release below for more information: New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Commissioner Basil Seggos today encouraged New Yorkers to participate in a survey for wild turkeys. “Citizen science efforts like the Summer Turkey Sighting…