State Agencies Launch New #RecreateLocal Hashtag, Encourage New Yorkers to Discover Outdoor Spaces Close to Home. Common Sense Guidelines Promote Safe Recreation Practices to Help Stop the Spread.
Read MoreDEC encourages New Yorkers to recreate locally. Please continue to follow the CDC/NYSDOH's guidelines for preventing the spread of colds, flu, and COVID-19 by choosing trails close to home, avoiding potentially busy trailheads, keeping at least six (6) feet of distance between you and others, avoiding direct contact with other people, and staying home if you are showing or feeling any sign of symptoms.
Read MoreCommunity volunteers throughout the Hudson Valley are getting out their flashlights, reflective vests, and raingear in anticipation of annual breeding migrations of salamanders and frogs, which typically begin in mid-March, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) announced today.
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