ALBANY, New York — Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul plans to nominate a former Biden official as head of the state Department of Environmental Conservation.

Commissioner Sean Mahar emphasized New York’s commitment to ensuring clean drinking water for generations, stating, “The launch of the 2025 Drinking Water Source Protection Program application period ...

A bull moose that fell through lake ice in the Adirondack Mountains was saved by New York conservation officials in a ...

New York environmental conservation police officers and forest rangers used a chainsaw to cut through ice to save a freezing moose that had fallen through the ice on Lake ...

The moose fell through the ice around 11 a.m. Thursday, about 200 feet (60 meters) from shore on Lake Abanakee, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation announced in a statement ...

The author states "In 2024, New York State enacted several laws aimed either at dealing with the adverse impacts of climate ...

Forest rangers and conservation police in New York came to the rescue of a moose that wandered out onto a frozen lake and ...

Police called in the help of trained DEC staff to get the moose out of the water. DEC Rangers Evan Nahor and Matt Savarie ...

"DEC has announced updated regulations to protect an additional one million acres of freshwater wetlands across the state", began a recent post from the NYS DEC (below). After explaining the benefits ...

NEW YORK (WBNG) -- The Department of Environmental Conservation changed the jurisdiction and classifications of freshwater wetlands on Jan. 1. If you have regulated wetlands on your property ...