With birds exploding from cover, roosters cackling and fast-paced hunts that require focus, Pennsylvania’s ring-necked pheasant season always packs excitement. And this year, it packs more birds, too. The statewide pheasant season opens Saturday and the Game Commission will be stocking ...
We all stood for a second in silence, listening to what was around us. Our hike leader Tracey Tillett heard a bird in the distance, but she wasn’t sure what it was. That’s when my fiance Tara got her phone out and managed to use an app to identify the bird in question. A red-tailed hawk ...
The other day Mary Alice asked if I had seen many grasshoppers in the last few weeks and my answer was no. I’m sure the reason for my answer was that I have not be outdoors as much as in past years. The following is an Aesop fable passage. “One bright day in late autumn a family of ants ...
Lycoming Clean Water Institute and The Susquehanna Chapter, TU are working with the PA Fish and Boat Commission to hold a public information and outreach forum Wednesday. The forum will be on the proposed rulemaking announced by the PFBC on the issue of preventing undesirable aquatic ...
The Eastern Hellbender salamander will be the topic of a presentation at the monthly meeting of the Loyalsock Creek Watershed Association at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 18, at the Plunkett’s Creek Township Volunteer Fire Department located in Barbours. Dr. Peter Petokas, Research Associate ...
Many of us are again looking forward to the start of the 2022-2023 hunting season. I’m reminded of all the excitement that each season brings. Is this the year that I may have an opportunity for that big buck that I have waited years to bag? Is this the year that I will be lucky enough to ...