botany

Occasionally, you run into a gobbler too smart to fool. Scott Neely and I hunted one of these for three years. We nicknamed the big gobbler ‘The Tank....

WINE DAY: No, that is not spelled incorrectly. Today is the day the nation celebrates WINE! Glorious grapes, gracing gullets across the area – what wi...

MARIENVILLE — Weather permitting, the US Department of Agriculture, Forest Service will treat glossy and common buckthorn from mid-May to mid-June to ...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — The growing number of gardeners growing pollinator gardens may need to dive a bit deeper than the selection of plants they choose t...

ERIE — Penelec, a subsidiary of FirstEnergy Corp., continues to conduct tree-trimming work in communities across its Pennsylvania service area as part...

WARREN — On most Forest Service lands within the Allegheny National Forest the USDA Forest Service allows the harvesting of wild leeks (Allium sp.) fo...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — While the name of the target insect has been changed to spongy moth, from the familiar gypsy moth, the attack remains much the same...

The North Central Forest Landowners Association will be holding a program about Brush Control- Identification and Management of Non-native Invasive Sh...

UNIVERSITY PARK — In the middle of April, we’re experiencing one of the (hopefully) last gasps of winter for the season. While nature can still surpri...

HERBS: Herbs can be dried by several methods for future use. Penn State Extension shared the following: When drying a large quantity of herbs, a dehyd...

GROWING HERBS: Herbs are easy to grow and rarely damaged by diseases or insects. A few short rows in a vegetable or flower garden will provide an adeq...

The forests of Pennsylvania may be our backyards, but to lawmakers in Harrisburg, there are mysteries aplenty deep in those trees. Next week, in an ef...

WILD EDIBLES: For sensational spring flavor, be sure to eat your weeds! Check out this list of Mother Nature’s healthiest greens from the Farmers’ Alm...

JOHNSONBURG — Jim Pennington, president of the Rolfe Beagle Club, announced that local Boy Scouts with Troop #83 and Troop #410 helped the club improv...

A FOOL FOR YOU: There’s no question that April Fools’ Day is one of the most widely recognized non-religious holidays in the Western world. Although i...

UNIVERSITY PARK — Agriculture Secretary Russell Redding was joined by the dean of Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences to highlight nearly $1...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture plans to expand the state’s spotted lanternfly quarantine area to include 11 more counti...

Listed below are the proposed dates and meeting places for the preseason stocking. These days are tentative and are subject to change in the event of ...

I keep the heat turned off in the bedroom, preferring to sleep under piles of blankets. This morning, however, the bedroom was chillier than normal an...

UNIVERSITY PARK — Since the 1990s, scientists have been predicting that North American tree species will disappear from portions of their ranges withi...