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2 months ago

Volunteer forest ranger, 18, dies responding to New York wildfire that sent smoky haze over NYC

CNN

CNN — An 18-year-old New York State Forest Ranger volunteer and state employee died Saturday while responding to a wildfire near the New York-New Jersey border that sent smoke drifting across New York City, officials said. The death stems from the Jennings Creek Fire burning in the area of Greenwood Lake Turnpike and East Shore Road in West Milford, Passaic …

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5 months ago

DPS reinstates Texas Ranger fired for Uvalde shooting response

Raw Story

"DPS reinstates Texas Ranger fired for Uvalde shooting response" was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues. DPS Director Steve McCraw said in a Friday letter to Christopher Ryan Kindell that Kindell could return to his former position now …

Law Shooting Investigation School Texas Jury Officers

6 months, 3 weeks ago

Erode elephant death: Disciplinary proceedings initiated against Forest guard

The Hindu

Disciplinary Proceedings Forest Guard

9 months, 1 week ago

Erumeli range officer, deputy ranger suspended in cannabis farming case

New Indian Express

KOCHI: The forest department has suspended Erumeli forest range officer B R Jayan and deputy range officer R Ajay in connection with the alleged cultivation of cannabis on Plachery forest station premises. The investigation has revealed that Range officer B R Jayan used the cannabis cultivation case to settle scores with the women beat forest officers at Plachery forest station …

Cannabis Station R B Erumeli Forest Range Officer Plachery B R Jayan

1 year ago

Forest department on high alert as tiger sightings trigger caution in Ayyankunnu

The Hindu

The Forest department has initiated heightened surveillance and issued warnings following reported sightings of a tiger at Palathumkadavu in Ayyankunnu panchayat near the Kottiyoor Wildlife Sanctuary. Sunny Joseph, MLA, and district panchayat vice president Binoy Kurian urged the Divisional Forest Officer and Kottiyoor ranger to take quick action to allay fears of local people. 15-member team A 15-member forest guard …

Tiger Forest Forest Department Rubber Tapping Kottiyoor

1 year, 3 months ago

Wild elephant tramples forest ranger to death in Assam, injures four others

Hindustan Times

A forest ranger was killed and four others injured after a team of the forest department came under attack by a wild elephant in Assam’s Jorhat district on Thursday night. The deceased forest ranger has been identified as Atul Kalita According to the officials, the incident took place in the Bijoy Nagar area of Jorhat’s Titabor when a herd of …

Forest Official Department Elephant Kumar

1 year, 4 months ago

Reshaped Death Valley park could take months to reopen after damage from Hilary

Associated Press

DEATH VALLEY JUNCTION, Calif. — It’s unclear when Death Valley National Park will reopen to visitors after heavy rains from Tropical Storm Hilary forged new gullies and crumbled roadways at the site of one of the hottest places in the world, officials said. “Two inches of rain does not sound like a lot, but here, it really does stay on …

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2 years ago

Three Forest Department staffers suspended for illegal tree felling on IISWC Udhagamandalam campus

The Hindu

Three staff members of the Forest Department, including a ranger, were suspended after the stand-off between the Department and the Indian Institute of Soil and Water Conservation over the illegal felling of 370 trees on leased forestland earlier this year. IISWC senior staff members made counter-accusations against some Department workers. IISWC officials said the decision to remove “wind-fallen,” uprooted and …

Forest Staff Department Officials Iiswc

$Australian man wrestles with \'cunning\' crocodile, sticks thumb into his eye, escape$

5 years, 1 month ago

Australian man wrestles with \'cunning\' crocodile, sticks thumb into his eye, escape

Deccan Chronicle

Cairns: An Australian wildlife ranger has recounted his terrifying escape from the clutches of a "particularly cunning" crocodile, after wrestling with the reptile and sticking a finger in its eye. Craig Dickmann, who made a split-second decision to go fishing last Sunday in a remote part of Northern Australia known as "croc country" last Sunday, said a 2.8-metre crocodile came …

Man Dickmann Croc Escape Cairns Sticks Thumb

5 years, 6 months ago

Watch: Woman forest ranger attacked by TRS workers

India Today

A police team and forest guards were allegedly attacked by Telangana Rashtra Samithi workers in Sirpur Kagaznagar block of Komaram Bheem Asifabad district, during a tree plantation drive. During the attack in Telangana, a woman forest ranger sustained injuries and alleged that the attack was led by the brother of local TRS MLA Koneru Konappa. TRS workers have beaten up …

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Volunteer forest ranger, 18, dies responding to New York wildfire that sent smoky haze over NYC

DPS reinstates Texas Ranger fired for Uvalde shooting response

Erode elephant death: Disciplinary proceedings initiated against Forest guard

Erumeli range officer, deputy ranger suspended in cannabis farming case

Forest department on high alert as tiger sightings trigger caution in Ayyankunnu

Wild elephant tramples forest ranger to death in Assam, injures four others

Reshaped Death Valley park could take months to reopen after damage from Hilary

Three Forest Department staffers suspended for illegal tree felling on IISWC Udhagamandalam campus

Australian man wrestles with \'cunning\' crocodile, sticks thumb into his eye, escape

Watch: Woman forest ranger attacked by TRS workers