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April 14, 2020
Recent Forest Ranger Actions From the Department of Environmental Conservation: Town of DresdenWashington CountyWilderness Rescue: On April 11 at 7:35 p.m., DEC’s Ray Brook Dispatch received a call from a hiker reporting his brother was overdue returning from Black Mountain. The caller stated that they last saw the 15-year-old male from Hudson Falls on the summit…
April 7, 2020
Recent Forest Ranger Actions From the Department of Environmental Conservation: Town of Indian LakeHamilton CountyWilderness Rescue: On April 4 at 6:20 p.m., Hamilton County 911 transferred a call to DEC’s Ray Brook Dispatch reporting a family of hikers from Johnstown took the wrong trail while visiting Rock Lake in the Blue Mountain Wild Forest area. Dispatch…
March 27, 2020
People regularly head into the High Peaks wearing only sneakers and T-shirts, the only map the one they’ve got on their phone, their only light source their cellphone flashlight.
March 25, 2020
DEC personnel from across agency divisions and regions statewide are supporting the State's response to COVID-19.
By Mike Lynch
March 22, 2020
Forest rangers located the missing Mount Marcy hiker Saturday, a 46-year-old Greenwich woman.
March 18, 2020
Direct text contact was established with the hiker, who stated she was in an emergency foil tent but having difficulties due to wet and frozen socks and losing the Lillian Brook trail, and was unable to locate the main Dix trail.
March 10, 2020
A 45-year-old woman from Montreal took a wrong step while descending the mountain and sustained an ankle injury. Six Forest Rangers responded to assist the hiker off the mountain, arriving at 5:26 p.m.
February 28, 2020
Part of the drawback to using drones is the park landscape. The thick canopy of trees makes it hard for a drone to fly, much less capture consistent, useful pictures.
February 25, 2020
DEC's Ray Brook Dispatch received a request to assist a 56-year-old male and an 18-year-old male from Boston, Massachusetts, who became disoriented after out-of-bounds skiing at Whiteface Mountain.
February 12, 2020
A 50-year-old man from Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, had lost control of his snowmobile and was ejected into a tree.