New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Forest Rangers respond to search and rescue incidents statewide.

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On April 14, 1845, in the gray of a lingering twilight above Mount Adams, Cincinnati Observatory founder Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel took his first look through the great telescope, the third largest ...

Seismic activity at Mount Adams – known as Washington’s forgotten mountain -- picked up in September, getting the attention of the rest of the state.

Sixty years on, the pressures on wilderness have changed. Debates over when and where to use the law have grown more complicated.

In Washington, three chunks of the Cascades were immediately protected: the Glacier Peak, Goat Rocks and Mount Adams wilderness areas.

Started noon Aug. 5. Located near Mount Adams Wilderness in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest. 234 personnel. Upper Ruby Fire — 282 acres. 31% contained. Started 3:55 p.m. Tuesday.

The Mount Adams Wilderness and areas surrounding the fire remain closed. That includes Forest Service Road 23 and the popular South Climb trailhead.

The fire, estimated at 3,000 acres, was reported in the Mount Adams Wilderness after a lightning storm passed over the area.