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Forest rangers with the state Department of Environmental Conservation responded to multiple snowmobile calls in the North Country over the last couple of week

When an accident occurs on the hiking trails, Forest Rangers are always fast to respond. Here's yet another example of them hard at work.

When an accident occurs on the hiking trails, Forest Rangers are always fast to respond. Here's yet another example of them hard at work.

When an accident occurs on the hiking trails, Forest Rangers are always fast to respond. Here's yet another example of them hard at work.

When an accident occurs on the hiking trails, Forest Rangers are always fast to respond. Here's yet another example of them hard at work.

A group of hikers called for help from the summit of Mt. Marcy last week after climbing the high peak through 8 inches of snow in sneakers.

Hikers without flashlights (again) a helicopter rescue and the search for a kayaker who...

Tuesday, June 22, 2021 - 5:07 pm State Department of Environmental Conservation officers rescued three lost people in the Cranberry Lake area in recent days. On June 19 DEC’s Ray Brook Dispatch received a call at at 7:39 p.m. from two lost hikers in the Cranberry Lake Wild Forest. The hikers were advised to call 911 to determine their position. Initial attempts to gain the subjects’ coordinates were delayed and returned with questionable reliability. The hikers from Bat...

Mt. Marcy rescue: Hiker with hip injury carried down snowy trail by Forest Rangers and others at night Updated May 18, 2021; State Forest Rangers in recent weeks were kept busy rescuing injured or lost hikers, along with fighting wildfires and doing prescribed burns. In one instance, a woman who suffered a hip injury after slipping on ice on top of Mt. Marcy in the Adirondacks had to be carried down the mountain trail in a litter during the night. The trail had two to three feet of snow and ic...

Wildfires, saving injured hiker, finding lost child: Latest DEC Forest Ranger action Updated 3:06 PM; State Forest Rangers have kept busy recently dealing with wild flowers, rescuing an injured hiker and finding a lost child. The following incidents took place between April 19-24. All information below was supplied by the state Department of Environmental Conservation. Town of Lysander. Onondaga County Illegal Fires: “On April 19 at 6:30 p.m., a Forest Ranger received a call from Onondaga ...