From the New York Department of Environmental Conservation

Forest Ranger Actions from January 20 to January 26, 2020

Town of Riverhead
Suffolk County
Wilderness Rescue: On Jan. 20 at 1:14 p.m., DEC’s Central Office Dispatch received a call reporting a lost hunter in the Sarnoff State Forest. Forest Rangers Joseph Pries and John Scott responded to the hunter’s last known location, but quickly received word the hunter was able to send a screenshot from his phone with his location to Environmental Conservation Police Officer (ECO) Sean Rockefeller. Using the screenshot, Forest Rangers Pries and Scott met ECO Rockefeller and ECO Jacob Clark and pinpointed the lost hunter’s exact location. The officers found the 48-year-old hunter one-quarter mile off the trail and assisted him back to his vehicle.