New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) 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.
Public officials and members of environmental groups are among those who are lashing out at the U.S. Coast Guard for reenergizing a controversy that it had been thought was previously resolved. The controversy concerns the parking of barges along the Hudson River north of the Mario M. Cuomo Bridge. The Coast Guard has revisited rulings […]