botany

Many hands made light work of picking up thousands of wreaths laid at the graves of local veterans on December’s Wreaths Across America Day. A group o...

Bradford City Department of Public Works and the city Tree Board were back in action this week, planting more trees with funding from TreePennsylvania...

This week’s meeting of Bradford City Council went a bit longer than expected, as 18 bids were opened for woodworking machinery seized by the Office of...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — Science is catching up with the spotted lanternfly as researchers experiment with parasitic wasps, vibrating traps and other strate...

The Bradford Area Chamber of Commerce is trying something new this year, a Girls’ Day Out to — hopefully, chamber officials said — usher in a new era ...

WARREN — The U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service is hosting a garlic mustard pull in the Allegheny National Forest on April 25, from 8:30 a...

My steps took me across the wide, rolling hill tops near Clermont. The terrain was largely open fields, interspersed with clumps and groves of trees, ...

Kinzua Bridge State Park Complex will offer a variety of programs in April. First up is the Step into Spring walk set 2 to 3:30 p.m. Saturday at Elk S...

WARREN — The US Forest Service plans to use prescribed fire as a forest management tool from early April until mid-May in the Allegheny National Fores...

Mother Nature has done the washing up this week, now let’s pitch in on the picking up. The “Pick Up Pennsylvania” spring community cleanup campaign ru...

KANE — Want to help wildlife? Members of the Upland Bird Hunt and Allegheny Chapters of the Ruffed Grouse Society (RGS) are seeking volunteers to assi...

The weather so far this year has been causing some difficulties for harvesting timber on Bradford City Water Authority property. At this week’s meetin...

DuBOIS — March is Nutrition Month, which is the perfect time to take a closer look at something you probably learned in school years ago but may not h...

GIFT: On this day, 112 years ago, First Lady Helen Taft and the Viscountess Chinda, wife of the Japanese ambassador, planted two Yoshino cherry trees ...

SMETHPORT — McKean County Conservation District has a no-till drill available for rent by McKean County landowners. Contact the district to schedule u...

(TNS) — There’s no bigger advocate of Pennsylvania wine these days than Scott Neeley, who has put his money where his mouth (and support) are. He bega...

WARREN — The USDA Forest Service announced that a joint effort continues to improve the health of streams in the Allegheny National Forest. Large wood...

TOPS 16 The weekly meeting of TOPS 16 was held Wednesday at the First Presbyterian Church on East Corydon Street in Bradford. The meeting was called t...

The weather has been so beautiful this March that the whole ecosystem seems upside down. Thinking back over the years, I remember the first week or tw...

HARRISBURG — A wildlife species native to Pennsylvania but long missing is back home again. The Pennsylvania Game Commission today released 50 bobwhit...