{"id":360580,"date":"2026-09-30T07:50:43","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T07:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/360580\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T07:50:43","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T07:50:43","slug":"2-mohawk-valley-residents-graduate-to-become-state-forest-rangers-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/360580\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Mohawk Valley Residents Graduate to Become State Forest Rangers | Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"2 Mohawk Valley Residents Graduate to Become State Forest Rangers\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/6abbf9a29bc45.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Provided Photo\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>LAKE PLACID, N.Y. &#8212; Seventeen new graduates have joined the ranks of New York State Forest Rangers after completing months of training.<\/p>\n<p>According to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, the ceremony took place in Lake Placid and included graduates from across the State.<\/p>\n<p>The new rangers finished six months of training at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry campus in Wanakena and the Huntington Wildlife Forest in Newcomb.<\/p>\n<p>Training covered law enforcement, rope rescues, wildfire suppression, prescribed burns, water rescues and wildlife protection.<\/p>\n<p>These graduates bring the statewide total to 161 Forest Rangers.<\/p>\n<p>Two local graduates are Ian Dill of Morris and Griffen Johnson of Rome.<\/p>\n<p>From the DEC:<\/p>\n<p>Below is the list of graduates from DEC\u2019s 25th Basic School for Forest Rangers:<\/p>\n<p> Joshua Betts \u2013 Highland, Ulster CountyJack Caulfield \u2013 Massapequa, Nassau CountyIan Dill \u2013 Morris, Otsego CountyEthan Engel \u2013 Peru, Clinton CountyTucker Griffin \u2013 Niskayuna, Schenectady CountyGriffen Johnson \u2013 Rome, Oneida CountyIsaac Knapp \u2013 Stanfordville, Dutchess CountyIan Lupole \u2013 Kirkwood, Broome CountyAlison MacCue \u2013 Croghan, Lewis CountyKaylynn Massa \u2013 Freehold, Greene CountyBrian McMahon \u2013 Spencerport, Monroe CountyJacob Owen \u2013 Allegany, Cattaraugus CountyJeremy Patnode \u2013 Chateaugay, Franklin CountyMitchell Rigano \u2013 North Chili, Monroe CountyNathan Ryan \u2013 East Greenbush, Rensselaer CountyTimothy Sarno \u2013 Kinderhook, Columbia CountySamantha Severing \u2013 Livingston Manor, Sullivan County<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Provided Photo\u00a0 LAKE PLACID, N.Y. &#8212; Seventeen new graduates have joined the ranks of New York State Forest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360581,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[61262,20157,9,11,10,49,122282,51,50],"class_list":["post-360580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-forest-rangers","tag-mohawk-valley","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-forest-rangers","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}