A 41-year-old hiker from Syracuse got lost on April 26 while climbing Blue Mountain, in the Central Adirondacks. Coordinates ...

The man’s friend called New York State Department of Environmental Conservation forest rangers at 10:30 p.m. on April 8 to say that he was overdue. At 2:30 a.m., six rangers set out to search ...

The fire was reported in Lake Luzerne in Warren County on Thursday, April 24. It burned across 14 acres and was extinguished later that day.

New York State Forest Rangers carried out extensive prescribed burns across six counties and responded to emergency calls, ...

Recent NYS Department of Environmental Conservation Forest Ranger actions: ...

WHITNEY POINT, N.Y. (WBNG) -- The Department of Environmental Conservation said Region 7 forest rangers conducted airboat training on April 11. As part of the training at Whitney Point ...

Between March 8 and 17, Forest Rangers responded to 25 fires in eight New York counties. The fires burned more than 558 acres ...

A New York State Department of Environmental Conservation dispatcher guided the man back to the trail via phone but remained concerned and relayed the hiker’s information to a forest ranger for ...

Participants from across New York gathered at Chenango Valley State Park in Chenango Forks for a search and rescue training exercise.

Each week, the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) releases the “Forest Rangers Week in Review.” For the week of ...

The crowd went quiet as a group of Forest Rangers from the Honor Guard marched towards the flagpole. First, the rangers hung the American flag, then the New York State flag, and finally they ...