If you need more than football and school buses to affirm that fall has arrived, consider this. The 2024 hunting seasons have begun. The season on mourning doves opened Sept. 2 and continues through Nov. 29. A second dove season runs Dec. 21 to Jan. 4 but is far less popular than the early ...
Bats have been prominent in recent local news. That news is not about the anemic offensive tools of the dependably last-place Pittsburgh Pirates. It鈥檚 about living bats, the only mammals capable of flight. As readers likely know 鈥� but bats don鈥檛 鈥� bats are at the center of a ...
Smokey Bear missed his 80th birthday 鈥� in Fayette County, that is. Elsewhere around the United States the familiar blue-jean-clad symbol was celebrated in the appreciative spirit he deserves after eight decades preventing forest and wildfires. Here, he was stolen by some thoughtless ...
Habits can be hard to break. That鈥檚 why deer hunters should make sure they鈥檙e keeping up with purchasing the licenses they鈥檒l need this fall. The State Legislature broke a long-standing hunters鈥� habit for them when it abolished the old system of buying antlerless (doe) licenses ...
Habits can be hard to break. That鈥檚 why deer hunters should make sure they鈥檙e keeping up with purchasing the licenses they鈥檒l need this fall. The State Legislature broke a long-standing hunters鈥� habit for them when it abolished the old system of buying antlerless (doe) licenses before ...
Three bald eagles graced a recent outing on the Youghiogheny River near Ohiopyle鈥攖wo stunning white-headed adults and one more plainly plumed juvenile. Unknown here 30 years ago, eagles are now seen daily along the Yough by those who seek them out. These impressive birds of prey have the ...
