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 ...

ALBANY — The state Department of Environmental Conservation recently announced several proposed regulation changes to streamline use and reporting of hunting tags and provide new deer hunting opportunities. Hunting is important in New York state for wildlife population management and ...

LAKE PLACID — I had set an alarm clock, but that’s not what woke me up on Friday, June 20. Sheets of rain pounded down on the roof and the wind swirled about outside, howling at times. It was just before 6 a.m. and far from the scene I had hoped to see out my window. When I went to bed ...