ecology

EMPORIUM — Settlement funds from an environmental disaster 12 years ago are available for projects in the Sinnemahoning Creek Watershed. On Thursday, ...

SMETHPORT (EC) — The new McKean County Recycling Center has reopened at its former location, the Good Growing Gardens on U.S. Route 6 west of Smethpor...

HARRISBURG — On Friday, Department of Conservation and Natural Resources Secretary Cindy Adams Dunn joined Bureau of State Parks officials in dedicati...

SMETHPORT — The McKean County Conservation District conducted its annual Best Management Practices Tour Thursday, visiting four recent projects in Ham...

Another company wants to treat oil and gas waste and discharge it into the Allegheny River watershed. To make matters worse, a state representative ha...

RIDGWAY — The Allegheny National Forest is joining several other organizations as part of the Allegheny Plateau Invasive Plant Management Area to host...

Bradford Township’s issues with recycling are nothing new for that municipality, or for many places where the honor system is used for compliance. On ...

Every few years the story is the same — follow the rules, or the recycling bins in Bradford Township will be taken away. Yet no one is heeding the war...

SMETHPORT — Two free conservation workshops are set for June 7 — an invasive plant workshop and a backyard conservation. The invasive plant workshop, ...

A Bradford company wants to drill an injection well in the Allegheny National Forest in Lafayette Township ––and the U.S. Environmental Protection Age...

The First Presbyterian Church in Bradford celebrated Earth Day on Sunday during Sunday School hour. The Sunday School classes invited Penn State Maste...

Just a few years after purchasing the wastewater treatment facility at the McKean County Landfill, Seneca Resources is using 75-percent recycled water...

EARTH DAY: Earth Day is Sunday, and Arbor Day is April 27. Here’s a roundup of some of the events planned around the area this weekend to celebrate Mo...

DARK SKIES: This week is International Dark Sky Week, and the International Dark-Sky Association is celebrating. According to the association, “Intern...

SMETHPORT — The state legislature and the McKean County commissioners have declared April 15 to 21 as “Conservation District Week.” The dates coincide...

McKean County and the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources have come up with activities for residents to enjoy this weekend i...

GALETON — The Susquehannock State Forest will host its annual forest management/habitat tour at 9 a.m. April 29, beginning at the Pennsylvania Lumber ...

APRIL FOOLS: With April Fools’ Day falling on Easter this year — and since we don’t publish a Sunday paper — we cut our readers a break from our annua...

DUBOIS — In mid-2017, Paris was awarded a grant from the commonwealth’s Alternative Fuels Incentive Grant program to help finance the conversion of fi...

A controversial wastewater facility proposal in Potter County has gained quite a bit of attention –- in fact, the Pennsylvania Department of Environme...