natural resource management

KANE — Dr. Todd Ristau, researcher in silviculture, will be the keynote speaker when the Roach-Bauer Forestry Forum marks 40 years Oct. 10. Reservatio...

MARIENVILLE — The US Department of Agriculture, Forest Service is accepting public review and comment for the North Kane vegetation management project...

The conservation districts of Cameron, Elk, McKean, Potter and Tioga, in cooperation with the Pennsylvania Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) and G...

WARREN — The USDA Forest Service Eastern Region is now accepting applications for grants that support forest restoration work on non-federal lands. La...

MARIENVILLE — The USDA Forest Service is accepting public comments on a proposal to improve stream habitat along 65 miles of streams in Highland, Ridg...

KANE — Dr. Todd Ristau, researcher in silviculture, will be the keynote speaker when the Roach-Bauer Forestry Forum marks 40 years Oct. 10 at the Wilc...

UNIVERSITY PARK — Penn State Extension’s Master Watershed Steward program will hold its fifth annual native tree and shrub sale this fall in 27 locati...

More opportunity in more places, that’s what awaits hunters this fall across much of Pennsylvania, thanks to additional state game lands enrolled in t...

HARRISBURG — Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) Secretary Cindy Adams Dunn announced that Benn Carlson has been appointed to serv...

Lilly Kemick of Bradford and Benjamin Porkolab of St. Marys are among four regional students who will share in $2,750 in Sandy Cochran Memorial Schola...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service recently partnered with multiple organizations to rehabilitate and enhance existing wildlife habita...

Liquid manure from Greg Strayer’s beef farm in Cumberland County does not threaten the Conodoguinet Creek any longer, thanks to a 185,000-gallon stora...

UNIVERSITY PARK — Fire can help shape ecosystems, and after a century of suppressing naturally occurring fire that has thrown forests out of balance, ...

WARREN — The U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service planted more than 300 tree seedlings along the Irwin Run stream in the Allegheny National ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service is accepting public comments on a proposal to realign two short sections of the North Country Natio...

The Bradford Bees Envirothon team took eighth place at the 39th Pennsylvania Envirothon competition, scoring 472.33 out of 600 possible points. Steven...

FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) — A picturesque Colorado river with a peculiar French name is the latest prize in the West's water wars, where wilderness adv...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Seabird biologist David Irons drove recently to the Prince William Sound community of Whittier to check on a friend's boat an...

BURNS, Ore. (AP) — Three Oregon sheriffs met Thursday with an armed group occupying a federal wildlife refuge in southeastern Oregon and asked them to...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The most powerful El Nino storm yet this week pushed onto the California coast Wednesday as police and outreach teams kept an eye o...