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The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, Vermont Fish and Wildlife and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will host a meeting next week to provide an update on restoration, research and assessment of the state of Lake Champlain’s fish populations and get input from anglers.

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has issued a recreational use advisory for back country areas of the Catskills and Adirondacks.

Protect the Adirondacks has been calling for the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation to conduct a so-called “carry capacity” study. The group says the state agency has failed to comply with management plans requirements, and it has sued to require compliance.

The Lake Champlain Basin Program and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation coordinated a harvest of the invasive water chestnut Thursday morning

The crowd inside a Saint Rose auditorium filled three tiers Wednesday as hundreds of neighborhood and city residents are eager to hear what’s happening with the more than 20-plus acres of campus in the heart of the capital city. Some buildings are already occupied, and preparations are underway to enable other buildings to be put back on the tax rolls as housing stock.

Fisheries personnel from the New York state Department of Environmental Conservation were at the Plattsburgh marina today to begin the last year of an effort to restore Atlantic Salmon into Lake Champlain.

A new report released to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Safe Drinking Water Act claims toxic landfill pollution threatens drinking water in 19 New York communities.

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has renewed operating permits for a notorious construction landfill in Rensselaer.

Cities like Albany are getting more funding to plant trees in underserved areas.

Marketing, membership, and volunteer enhancements are getting a boost at Five Rivers Environmental Education Center in Albany County.