Preparations are underway this week for the 2024 climbing season on Denali. According to the National Park Service, the first ranger patrol was scheduled to fly into the Alaska Range on Monday. Their ...

A longtime New York forest ranger and trans advocate was killed Thursday night after falling more than 1,000 feet while attempting to climb a steep cliff in Alaska, officials said. Robbi Mecus, 52, of ...

The first time I met Robbi Mecus, she told me she liked my skirt. I was 25, working as an interior caretaker in the Adirondack High Peaks, my first job with the New York Department of Environmental ...

Robbi Mecus was a New York State Forest Ranger working in the Adirondacks. (Emily Russell) A well-known and beloved Adirondack forest ranger died while ice climbing in Alaska on Thursday. Robbi Mecus, ...