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Kip Adams, chief conservation officer of the National Deer Association, will be the featured speaker at the annual Kinzua Quality Deer Cooperative (KQ...

It’s the best time of year to get a look at one of the largest mammals to call Pennsylvania home — the elk. An adult male — called a bull — stands 50 ...

HELLBENDER: Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) and Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission (PFBC) celebrated the recen...

UNIVERSITY PARK — Some scientists believe the Paramos, a grassland ecosystem found in the northern Andes Mountains of South America, are “the world’s ...

ST. MARYS — For nine years, the Dairy Queen store in St. Marys has hosted a fundraiser for the Elk County Humane Society, a cause close to owners Ther...

MOUNT JEWETT — Alan Johnson will admit there was a time when he didn’t know a job with the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resourc...

One of nature’s best shows is about to begin in earnest — the autumn leaves display in the Pennsylvania forests. It’s looking very promising for a bea...

Carbon capture and storage in Pennsylvania has some energy experts excited, but to get the public on board, it’ll take something more than industry ex...

FUZZY: What’s orange and black and, according to folklore, can tell us how bad winter will be? A wooly bear caterpillar of course! Farmers Almanac has...

ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. — Two St. Bonaventure University undergraduate students were recognized for their research and public speaking skills following ...

UNIVERSITY PARK — Over the past few weeks, if you have been walking under oaks or hickories, you may have been struck by discarded pieces of acorns or...

Surveying the flocks of migrating birds at Presque Isle, an Erie Bird Observatory hike leader snapped, “They should call the blackpoll warbler the “fa...

Thousands of mink are on the loose in Northumberland County after someone cut holes in a fur farm’s fence and opened their pens over the weekend, acco...

UNIVERSITY PARK — With a new $650,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Carolyn Lowry, a plant scientist in Penn State’s College of Agric...

OLEAN, N.Y. — The Counseling and Career Center at SUNY Jamestown Community College is a central hub of support resources available for students, facul...

WELLSBORO — Children and adults are invited to participate in the Hometown Science Festival on The Green in the heart of downtown Wellsboro from noon ...

UNIVERSITY PARK — Erika Ganda, assistant professor of food animal microbiomes and executive committee member of Penn State’s One Health Microbiome Cen...

MARIENVILLE — The U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service is implementing the decision to remove a large culvert on Irwin Run associated with t...

The USDA Forest Service is accepting public review of and comment on the environmental assessment for the Porcupine Run Project in the Bradford Ranger...

WARWICK — The French and Pickering Creek Conservation Trust has recent announced the preservation of more than 175 acres in two locations in Chester C...