Most people consider statistics to be tedious and boring. Include me in that company except when it comes to statistical data that biologists use to manage wildlife. That鈥檚 an application in which statistics come alive, because the subjects of research, like deer, bears, wild turkeys and ...
Pennsylvania鈥檚 statewide bear hunting season opens tomorrow and will continue (Sunday excepted) through Wednesday, Nov. 21. We are fortunate here to share the Laurel Highlands with a growing population of black bears. That couldn鈥檛 always be said. Bears were exterminated from this region ...
A golfer, my wife Kathy is fond of joking that I should take up that sport because when you have a good day on the course, no onerous tasks await you afterward. You share a drink with friends, compliment one another on long putts, and you鈥檙e done. She鈥檚 referring, I know, to my fishing and ...
According to Pierce Willson, agricultural coordinator with the Fayette County Conservation District, it鈥檚 not too late to plant some varieties of late-season, cold-tolerant food-plot crops for wildlife. And, Willson says, the district now has the equipment small-scale planters need to make ...
This space last devoted its attention to the National Bison Range in western Montana, a worthy destination for certain. But despite its wild wonders and importance in America鈥檚 history of public lands and their role in conservation, the Bison Range takes five hours of flying and a rented car ...
Depending on how you look at it, the American bison represents either a monumental ecological loss or a success story in conservation. As many as 60 million bison ranged across the prairies and Great Plains when Meriwether Lewis left Pittsburgh on a flatboat in 1803 to begin the Corps of ...
