• Skip to secondary menu
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to secondary sidebar

New York Almanack

History, Natural History & the Arts

  • Email
  • RSS
  • Adirondacks & NNY
  • Capital-Saratoga
  • Mohawk Valley
  • Hudson Valley & Catskills
  • NYC & Long Island
  • Western NY
  • History
  • Nature & Environment
  • Arts & Culture
  • Outdoor Recreation
  • Food & Farms
  • Subscribe
  • Support
  • Submit
  • About
  • New Books
  • Events
  • Podcasts

Shandaken

Rangers Find Gun, Weed; Rescue Unprepared, Injured, Ill Hikers & More

September 12, 2023 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Forest Rangers Sprague and Streczywilk with marijuana plants on Hill Higher State Forest in the summer of 2023New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Forest Rangers respond to search and rescue incidents throughout New York State. 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.

What follows is a report, prepared by DEC, of recent missions carried out by Forest Rangers. [Read more…] about Rangers Find Gun, Weed; Rescue Unprepared, Injured, Ill Hikers & More

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Hudson Valley - Catskills, Recreation, Western NY Tagged With: Adirondacks, Bangor, Boquet River, Catskills, Chautauqua County, Elizabethtown, Essex County, Forest Ranger Reports, Fort Ann, Franklin County, Harmony, Harrietstown, Hill Higher State Forest, Lake Colby, Lake George Wild Forest, Shandaken, Sleeping Beauty, Slide Mountain Wilderness Area, Split Rock Falls, Ulster County, Washington County

Forest Rangers Find Fugitive, Recover Body, Make Helicopter Rescue & More

August 30, 2023 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Wittenberg Mountain Rescue in August 2023New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Forest Rangers respond to search and rescue incidents throughout New York State. 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.

What follows is a report, prepared by DEC, of recent missions carried out by Forest Rangers. [Read more…] about Forest Rangers Find Fugitive, Recover Body, Make Helicopter Rescue & More

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, History, Hudson Valley - Catskills, Recreation, Western NY Tagged With: Adirondacks, Arietta, Catskills, Chubb Lake, Crime and Justice, Dix Mountain, Dix Range, Essex County, Forest Ranger Reports, Hamilton County, Lake Placid, Middlefield, North Elba, North Hudson, Otsego County, Search and Rescue, Shandaken, Ulster County, Wittenberg Mountain, Woodland Valley Campground

Man Claims “Being Hunted” by Catskills Hiking Partner

August 22, 2023 by Editorial Staff 1 Comment

The Most Dangerous Game film still (1932)Early Monday morning on August 21, at about 2:45 am, New York State Forest Ranger Martin received a call from Ray Brook Dispatch about an injured subject on Mount Tremper. The peak is located near the hamlet of Phoenicia, in the valley of Esopus Creek in the town of Shandaken in the Catskills in Ulster County, NY. [Read more…] about Man Claims “Being Hunted” by Catskills Hiking Partner

Filed Under: Hudson Valley - Catskills, Recreation Tagged With: Catskills, Crime and Justice, Esopus River, Forest Ranger Reports, Mount Tremper, Search and Rescue, Shandaken, Ulster County

New Jersey Hikers Ticketed For Leaving Chairs On Wilderness Mountaintop

July 13, 2023 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Ticketed hikers carrying Adirondack chairs to top of Slide Mountain in July 2023On Saturday, July 8 at about 1:30 pm, the Catskill 3500 Club notified New York State Forest Ranger Martin about a group of hikers carrying two Adirondack chairs toward the summit of Slide Mountain in the town of Shandaken, Ulster County. [Read more…] about New Jersey Hikers Ticketed For Leaving Chairs On Wilderness Mountaintop

Filed Under: Nature, Recreation Tagged With: Catskill 3500 Club, Catskills, Crime and Justice, Forest Ranger Reports, hiking, Shandaken, Slide Mountain, Slide Mountain Wilderness Area, Ulster County

Group of 60 Campers Ticketed in State Wilderness Area; Hiker Rescued From Pitchoff

June 28, 2023 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Giant Ledge TrailOn June 21 at 3 pm, New York State Forest Rangers say they were notified that approximately 60 people were setting up camp on Giant’s Ledge in the Slide Mountain Wilderness Area in the town of Shandaken, Ulster County. [Read more…] about Group of 60 Campers Ticketed in State Wilderness Area; Hiker Rescued From Pitchoff

Filed Under: Hudson Valley - Catskills, Recreation Tagged With: camping, Crime and Justice, hiking, Shandaken, Slide Mountain Wilderness Area, Ulster County

Belleayre Ski Center Management Plan Released

June 16, 2023 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Belleayre Ski Mountain lodge courtesy ORDAThe New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) and Olympic Regional Development Authority (Olympic Authority) have released the final Unit Management Plan (UMP) for the Belleayre Ski Center. Belleayre Ski Center is located in Highmount in the town of Shandaken, Ulster County, within the Catskill Forest Preserve and is the only State-operated ski center in the Catskills. [Read more…] about Belleayre Ski Center Management Plan Released

Filed Under: Hudson Valley - Catskills, Nature, Recreation Tagged With: Belleayre Mountain, Catskills, DEC, Forest Preserve, hiking, mountain biking, ORDA, Shandaken, skiing, snowboarding, Ulster County

68, 70 & 71-Year-Old Recreationists Rescued In Ulster County

January 18, 2023 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

forest ranger logoIn 2022, DEC Forest Rangers conducted 359 search and rescue missions, extinguished 162 wildfires covering more than 1,300 acres, participated in 53 prescribed fires that served to rejuvenate nearly 900 acres of land, and worked on cases that resulted in hundreds of tickets and arrests. [Read more…] about 68, 70 & 71-Year-Old Recreationists Rescued In Ulster County

Filed Under: History, Recreation Tagged With: Bluestone Wild Forest, Forest Ranger Reports, Kingston, Search and Rescue, Shandaken, Slide Mountain Wilderness Area, Ulster County

Forest Rangers Called On To Recover Two Bodies From Upstate Backcountry

December 20, 2022 by Editorial Staff 1 Comment

Recovery Mission in Niles (DEC photo)New York State Forest Rangers were called on twice this past weekend to recover deceased bodies from Upstate New York’s backcountry. [Read more…] about Forest Rangers Called On To Recover Two Bodies From Upstate Backcountry

Filed Under: History, Hudson Valley - Catskills, Western NY Tagged With: Carpenter Falls, Cayuga County, Finger Lakes, Forest Ranger Reports, Greene County, Lexington, Niles, Search and Rescue, Shandaken, Shandaken Wild Forest, Skaneateles Lake, Ulster County

Primary Sidebar

Help Support The Almanack

Subscribe to New York Almanack

Subscribe! Follow the New York Almanack each day via E-mail, RSS, Twitter or Facebook updates.

Recent Comments

  • Thomas Keating on The Northwestern Adirondacks’ Grass River Complex & Lampson Falls
  • Editorial Staff on A Mexican War Monument in Saratoga County
  • Stephen H Muller on A Mexican War Monument in Saratoga County
  • Pat Boomhower on Ask Governor Hochul to Support New York’s History
  • Pat Boomhower on Ask Governor Hochul to Support New York’s History
  • Nancy Fenn on Albany’s Anneke Jans Bogardus, Indecent Exposure, Trinity Church & The Bowery
  • Pat Boomhower on Historic Adirondack MacNaughton Cottage Being Rehabilitated
  • DonS on Historic Adirondack MacNaughton Cottage Being Rehabilitated
  • Becky Landy on Dr. Bradford VanDiver: Adirondack Renaissance Man
  • Douglas Morgan on Euro-American Expansion Into The Finger Lakes Region

Recent New York Books

Vermont for Vermonters
Flee North Thomas Smallwood Early Underground Railroad
Making Long Island
The Witch of New York
styles brook book lorraine duvall
James Wilson: The Anxious Founder
Flatiron Legacy National Football League History NFL
Henry David Thoreau Thinking Disobediently
Prints of a New Kind: Political Caricature in the United States, 1789–1828

Secondary Sidebar