natural environment

HARRISBURG — A skeptical high court grilled state officials this week about whether the money it wants to collect from a regional anti-pollution pact ...

WILDLIFE: It’s the time of year to be outside more often — when it isn’t raining. The Pennsylvania Game Commission has a list of things everyone can d...

JOHNSONBURG — Rolfe Beagle Club, an active bird dog and sportsmen’s group in Johnsonburg, completed another important piece of its wetland improvement...

SMETHPORT — The McKean County Conservation District directors and staff welcomed representatives from legislators and agencies for a legislative tour ...

The “America First” trade agenda has consistently sought to restore fairness to America’s economic relationships, particularly with China, a nation no...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, having received sufficient interest in doing so, held a public hearing Tuesday evening regarding another pro...

Port Allegany’s Veterans Memorial Inc. (VMI) hosted this year’s Wild Envirothon on Wednesday with 110 students from McKean and Cameron counties taking...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced it will hold a virtual public hearing at 6 p.m. Tuesday regarding Sandstone Development LLC’s...

NEW YORK (TNS) — More than a dozen private companies around the world are looking to profit from extreme measures to combat global warming — filling t...

SMETHPORT — Last year, as part of its annual water quality projects, the McKean County Conservation District worked with municipalities to prevent sed...

The McKean County Conservation District (MCCD) spent the last week celebrating Arbor Day by sponsoring the My Growing Tree program throughout the coun...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — As spring begins in Pennsylvania, it means that migration will bring hummingbirds to the region. “Ruby-throats arrive in Pennsylvan...

DETROIT (AP) — Arborists are turning vacant land on Detroit's eastside into a small urban forest, not of elms, oaks and red maples indigenous to the c...

Conservation districts promote and support stewardship through education, engagement and collaboration to encourage responsible management of natural ...

SMETHPORT — Recognized by both the Pennsylvania state House and Senate, April 20 to 26, 2025, has been declared Conservation District Week. We all kno...

KANE — “Quality deer, quality habitat, quality hunting,” are the words John Dzemyan used at the April Roach-Bauer Forestry Forum to describe the 74,00...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — Black bears, deer, bobcats and other wildlife used to cross Route 220 in the forests near State College, sometimes to their detrime...

PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — Some unpaved roads reveal nature’s simple engineering, like the path deer chose in a forest centuries ago. Native Americans used ...

If you’re a human living on this planet, you should get to know Doug Tallamy, the entomologist and University of Delaware professor whose groundbreaki...

HARRISBURG — Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) Secretary Cindy Adams Dunn announced the appointment of Tyler Ickes as assistant ...