Below are Hick’s thoughts on a number of issues from his talk and interviews with the Explorer.

NEW YORK — The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) launched a new podcast, “DEC Does What?!’. Each episode will feature conversations with DEC experts about the ...

Working with researchers at Cornell University and State University of New York Environmental Science and Forestry, DEC ...

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation's Division of Law Enforcement has been actively enforcing the ...

Basil Seggos, head of the New York Department of Environmental Conservation, plans to resign from his post later this year. Seggos has led the department since October 2015, the longest tenure for ...

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation is cracking down on invasives and has banned more than 60 plants, including oriental bittersweet and porcelain berry vines, which have ...

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation added 12 new locations to the New York Birding Trail in July. Of ...

New York State Police say that the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation received an emailed bomb threat today targeting the DEC Region 3 office in New Paltz.

New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Basil Seggos says the historic contract is the largest addition to protected lands in the Adirondacks in over a decade.

This isn’t the first time New York has attempted to address environmental injustice. In 1999, the state’s Department of Environmental Conservation received a federal grant from the EPA to ...