New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Archives

08.12.2024 Environment

I Bird NY Challenge still open; rewards available

Birding participation boomed during COVID era social distancing, and it shows no sign of slowing down. According to the 2022 National Survey of Hunting, Fishing, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation, 1 in...

07.13.2023 News

Battery fire waste sent to Riverhead

When a fire broke out in a lithium Ion bike repair shop in Manhattan last month — killing four people who lived above the store — the charred remains...

10.25.2022 Featured Story

Students become citizen scientists as they gather data of Peconic Estuary at Indian Island County Park

Equipped with chest-high waders, fishing nets, binoculars, collection buckets and more, students from elementary to high school age became citizen scientists Friday. The students, including a group from the...

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I Bird NY Challenge still open; rewards available

Battery fire waste sent to Riverhead

Students become citizen scientists as they gather data of Peconic Estuary at Indian Island County Park