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By Mike Lynch
April 10, 2019
In recent years, the number of black bears with mange appears to be on the rise in several Northeastern states, including New York and Pennsylvania, according to the DEC. As a result, wildlife biologists throughout the Northeast are monitoring the situation more closely, and searching for potential treatment options.
By Mike Lynch
April 5, 2019
The state Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) is advising the public to be alert for two captive black bears that escaped from the Adirondack Wildlife Refuge in Wilmington.
By Mike Lynch
February 11, 2019
State wildlife staff completed their annual winter aerial surveys for the animal in January.
By Phil Brown
December 6, 2018
The Snake and the Salamander is a wonderfully illustrated book about reptiles and amphibians, by a veteran New York Department of Environmental Conservation herpetologist.
By Mike Lynch
October 17, 2018
A Morrisonville man is due in court later this month after he admitted to killing four bears over a bait pile, according to the state Department of Environmental Conservation. The bears included a sow and her two cubs.
By Mike Lynch
August 30, 2018
The state Department of Environmental Conservation killed a black bear at a Saranac Lake Islands Campground in the northern Adirondacks last week.
By Mike Lynch
August 17, 2018
Black bears are continuing to raid campsites for food on Lower and Middle Saranac lakes, a trend that started in July and has picked up in August.
By Mike Lynch
August 1, 2018
Last year, 41 people tested positive for Lyme Disease in Franklin County, while Essex County had 121 cases, and Clinton had 55 cases, according to DOH. By comparison, Hamilton County only had one case.
By Mike Lynch
June 29, 2018
Campers are being asked to stay away from the Slant Rock lean-to area this weekend due to bear activity in that area.
By Phil Brown
February 27, 2018
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service concluded in January that the eastern cougar is extinct and so removed it from the federal list of endangered species. The odd thing, though, is that the eastern cougar may never have existed.