Game protectors Black Dwinal and Toby Tyler with Forest Rangers Jeb Garfield and Alex Stowell at the Northwoods Club (formerly known as The Adirondack Preserve Association for the Encouragement of Social Pastimes and the Preservation of Game Forests). The elk was 550 pounds with an 11 point rack. Elk went extinct in the Adirondacks in […]
Two NYS Conservation Department officers examining bear traps. Circa 1950. Photo donated by Jack Drury from conservation officer Carl Prue’s album. Plattsburgh, NY.
Three NYS Conservation Department officers on the job. The NYS Conservation Department became the Department of Environmental Conservation in 1970. Circa 1950. Photo donated by Jack Drury from conservation officer Carl Prue’s album. Plattsburgh, NY.
Two NYS Conservation officers visit one room schoolhouse. Circa 1950. Photo donated by Jack Drury from conservation officer Carl Prue’s album. Plattsburgh, NY.
State Boat #0921. Photo donated by Jack Drury from the album of conservation officer Carl Prue. April 5, 1949. Plattsburgh, NY.
Taking wire fish traps out of Lake Champlain at Point Au Roche near Plattsburgh. April 5, 1949. Donated by Jack Drury from conservation officer Carl Prue’s album. Plattsburgh, NY.
NYS Conservation Officer Milene taking wire fish traps out of Lake Champlain at Point Au Roche. The NYS Conservation Department became the Department of Environmental Conservation in 1970. Donated by Jack Drury, from conservation officer Carl Prue’s album. April 5, 1949. Plattsburgh, NY.
Employees of the Ogdensburg City Water department pile sandbags along the Oswegatchie River to keep water from runoff flowing into city pump station, located at side of the dam. Circa 1950. Ogdensburg, NY. Originally in the Ogdensburg Advance Journal.
Sunday Rock being moved for the second time by Cal Sherman’s construction company in 1965. It was moved because the state was widening State Highway 56. Photo was taken in front of Elmer Watson’s barn. Colton, NY. For more information, check out this article on the significance of Sunday Rock in Colton.
Niagara Mohawk Power Company workers on Higley’s Floating Islands (which were really cranberry bog masses clogging up the dam) in the main channel at Higley Flow, between Colton and South Colton, NY. 1943. The men are checking on the cables inserted in the islands the previous winter, done so that they could pull the “floating […]
