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DEC: Wilderness Search in Town of Martinsburg Locates
Lost Hunter in Good Health
Published: November 04, 2025
at 05:00 p.m.
By: Press Release
from NYS DEC
Excerpt from weekly
NYS DEC Forest
Rangers- Week in Review press release:
Town of
Martinsburg, Lewis County
Wilderness Search: On Oct. 29 at 8:32 p.m., Ray Brook Dispatch
received a call from a lost hunter near Graves Road on Lesser Wilderness
State Forest. The 67-year-old from Ancram became
lost in the darkness while tracking a deer they shot. Forest Ranger Maxwell
worked with New York State Police and the Lewis County Sheriff’s Department
on the search. Using cell phone coordinates,
rescuers located the hunter at 9:30 p.m. in good health. The hunter had a
flashlight that died and a cell phone that was nearly out of charge.
Rangers suggest
hikers and hunters bring light sources such as headlamps with extra
batteries and not rely on phones for navigation and light. In the
wilderness, cell phone batteries lose charge more quickly.
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