botany

Honey bees are the essential workers of nature, ensuring that crops are pollinated, not to mention providing humans with sweet, delicious honey. The U...

CONCERT: Don’t forget the virtual performance by Veena Akama-Makia at 8 p.m. Friday, available only on the Marilyn Horne Museum YouTube channel. Admis...

UNIVERSITY PARK — As the spotted lanternfly extension associate in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences, Heather Leach often receives calls a...

MARIENVILLE — The Allegheny National Forest has announced that the draft decision notice for the South Branch Kinzua Creek Supplemental Environmental ...

The American Cancer Society is once again ready to say goodbye to winter with the return of its annual Daffodil Days. This colorful first flower of sp...

Over the course of this month and next, my travels will take me to a secluded hollow free from interruptions. A place to unwind some may say, yet whil...

PA’S MOST MISERABLE DAY OF THE YEAR: Ezvid Wiki, a video wiki, software and media company, polled 3,000 people to find out which month of the year we ...

STATE FOREST PRODUCTS REPORT: In Fall 2020, during National Forest Products Week, the Pennsylvania Hardwoods Development Council released a report det...

LOOKING FOR HELP: Candice Snyder of North Carolina has an interesting request. We hope that our readers might be able to help. Snyder writes, “My moth...

MARVINDALE — A Smethport area company will play a key role in eradicating invasive insect hemlock woolly adelgid at the Flight 93 National Memorial in...

When Tina Slaven, principal of Floyd C. Fretz Middle School, came to Aimee Emerson, librarian, to develop a 7th grade library course, she wanted to de...

KENDALL STATION: A reader sent a note sharing an advertising strategy used to convince customers to visit a Kendall Service Station on East Main Stree...

MARIENVILLE — The USDA Forest Service is accepting public review and comment of the supplemental environmental assessment on the South Branch Kinzua C...

MARIENVILLE — The USDA Forest Service has signed the decision notice and finding of no significant impact for the East Branch Tionesta Creek project o...

Deer season didn’t seem to be such a long, drawn out affair years ago. Few hunted archery, the camps were full and the great majority of hunters looke...

Dan Taylor, Bradford native and owner of Dan and Bryan Trees in Shepherdstown, W.Va., has done something in his life that few others can say they’ve a...

As Veteran’s Day quickly approaches, RISE will be honoring veterans by decorating the pine tree located in front of Tops at 10:30 a.m. today. RISE ado...

PORT ALLEGANY — This holiday season the Port Allegany Veterans Memorial Inc. is bringing Christmas cheer to children ages birth to 15. Christmas garla...

WARREN — The U.S. Forest Service is planning to conduct two fall prescribed fires on the Allegheny National Forest in Warren and Elk counties. Fire ma...

For Gus Crissman, gardening is more than just a hobby, it’s a way of life. He begins starting all his plants at the end of March to April 1st, includi...