ALBANY — 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, ...

NEWCOMB — The state Department of Environmental Conservation confirmed the location of the remains of Canadian hiker Leo DuFour, who went missing on Allen Mountain in early December and whose body was discovered by hikers on May 10. According to a wildland search and rescue incident ...

SARANAC LAKE — Those driving west from Lake Placid toward Tupper Lake on nice summer days will have probably noticed dozens of cars parked at a trailhead along state Route 3 about 16 miles from the village of Lake Placid. Having hiked the trail, I can attest that the trail’s popularity ...

ALBANY — 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, ...

ALBANY — On Monday, July 7, state Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Amanda Lefton, in collaboration with the New York Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit at Cornell University, today announced the launch of Snapshot NY, a citizen science program that allows the ...

KEENE — Gazing up at towering cliffs and steep mountainside slopes staggering directly up from the water’s edge as my kayak glided along, I could have been mistaken for being at Yosemite National Park. But these scenes weren’t from some far-flung land way out west. Rather, they ...