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Hiker, 61, with injured ankle airlifted off of Adirondack High Peak with helicopter: DEC Forest Ranger rescues Updated 11:36 AM; Today 11:34 AM A female hiker with an ankle injury was hoisted out of her situation with a State Police helicopter off of Blake Mountain. Facebook Share State Forest Rangers came to the assistance of several injured and lost hikers this past week – arranging for one individual to be hoisted out of her situation with the help of a State Police helicopter. The incid...

Helping lost, injured hikers; fighting wildfires: DEC Forest Rangers to the rescue Updated 2:41 PM; State Forest Rangers have been busy lately rescuing lost and injured hikers, along with fighting wild fires and doing prescribed burns. The following incidents occurred between April 5-10. All information below was supplied by the state Department of Environmental Conservation. Town of Pleasant Valley Dutchess County Wilderness Rescue: “On April 5 at 11:30 a.m., DEC’s Central Dispatch receiv...

Outdoornews April 1, 2021 (Westchester County) On March 11, ECOs Tompkins, Thibodeau, and Franz conducted a plainclothes fishing detail focused on anglers taking out-of-season striped bass. The officers patrolled George’s Island Park in the town of Cortlandt and Croton Landing Park in the village of Croton-on-Hudson. During the detail, the ECOs observed several anglers taking and keeping out-of-season fish. The ECOs issued 10 citations for violations including possessing out-of-season fish an...

Anglers stuck on floating sheet of ice, snowmobiler hits power pole: DEC Forest Ranger rescues Updated Mar 16, 2021; State Forest Rangers came to the rescue recently of two ice fishermen caught on a floating ice sheet on Lake Champlain and a snowmobiler who ran into a power pole. Those two incidents and others involving state Department of Environmental Conservation Forest Rangers took place between March 14. All information below was supplied by the DEC. Town of Plattsburgh, Clinton County Wi...

Injured snowmobiler, lost hiker, ice climber with leg injury: DEC Forest Ranger rescues Updated Feb 03, 2021; State Forest Rangers recently helped rescue a woman involved in a snowmobile crash, located a lost hiker and rescued an ice climber with a leg injury. The following incidents took place between December and late January. All information below was supplied by the state Department of Environmental Conservation. Village of Speculator (Lake Pleasant) Hamilton County Wilderness Rescue: “O...

Outdoornews December 24, 2020 (Dutchess County) • On Dec. 4, ECO Eyler questioned a hunter about details of a buck he had posted on a social media site. The hunter reported that the deer was harvested in Connecticut, just over the state border, and brought the ECO to the deer hanging in his brother’s shed about a mile way. The deer was hanging in the shed, replete with a Connecticut deer tag and half gutted. ECO Eyler informed the hunter of DEC’s chronic wasting disease regulations that p...

Outdoor Journal: Making some out-of-season sightings while out rabbit hunting | The Daily Gazette SECTIONS By Ed Noonan/For The Daily Gazette | December 23, 2020 Earlier this month, I decided to bundle up and head out to do a little small game hunting to see if I could kick up a few rabbits using my new Heritage Rough Rider .22 revolver. I was slowly stopping and going when I saw movement coming up from a gully. I sat down quickly in the bushes and out from me about 10-15 steps from me were two...

Dec 16, 2020 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, injured, or distressed people from across New York State. In 2019, DEC Forest Rangers conducted 337 search and rescue missions, extinguished 74 wildfires that burned a total of 212 acres, participated in 29 p...

Adirondack hunter falls out of tree stand, gets injured: DEC Forest Ranger rescues Updated Dec 15, 2020; Facebook Share An Adirondack hunter fell out of his tree stand recently. He suffered undisclosed injuries and made his way back to his truck. He was unable, though, to get into his vehicle. Fortunately, a state Forest Ranger happened to be driving by, noticed him on the ground next to his truck and rescued him. That rescue was included in the state Department of Environmental Conservation�...

Outdoornews December 10, 2020 (Herkimer County) On Nov. 13, Forest Rangers Hanno and McCartney discovered an illegal camp near a remote pond in the West Canada Lake Wilderness Area. Upon further investigation, the forest rangers observed multiple state land violations. On the evening of Nov. 19, the Rangers apprehended two hunters from Forestport occupying the camp. An interview with the two hunters revealed the pair was responsible for cutting out a trail, cutting 14 trees to build their camp,...