Soon, the hunting seasons will open in quick succession. Archery deer season is already in progress so, for hunters, Saturday Oct. 14 will be a day of wide choices.Hunting for rabbits, squirrels and ruffed grouse opens Oct. 14, as does the South Zone duck-hunting season. Regarding duck hunting, ...
The last day of September merits more recognition than it gets in our area. Sept. 30 is National Public Lands Day, sponsored by the National Environmental Education Foundation to call attention to the value of national parks and forests, national wildlife refuges, and state park, forest and ...
<strong>T</strong>he rainfall over the past few days was the welcomed kind. Unlike the extreme torrents that fell throughout the summer, this week鈥檚 precipitation was sustained but gentle, the manner of rainfall that nurtures much in the natural world, including ...
With the hunting seasons approaching, hunters should be armed with the facts about the various diseases plaguing white-tailed deer.A Pittsburgh daily newspaper reported this week that the Pennsylvania Game Commission is investigating a disease outbreak that鈥檚 killed at least 150 deer in ...
You may have noticed the daylight period growing shorter these past weeks. You can be sure that birds have noticed it too. Soon that change will trigger an annual event that鈥檚 one of the marvels of the natural world 鈥� southward migration. Every fall, millions of birds of species not adapted ...
Wildflowers are most often associated with spring. That may be because delicate spring blooms of trillium, bloodroot and trout lily are so welcome on the heels of winter鈥檚 bleakness. But right now, at mid-summer, a mostly unnoticed profusion of showy black-eyed Susan, ox-eye daisy, goldenrod, ...
