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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...

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...

UNIVERSITY PARK — Last week, as I was enjoying a snack of juneberries, I noticed a sight I had not seen on the shrub before. Some berries were double ...

JOHNSONBURG — Rolfe Beagle Club members first noticed European buckthorn at the club in the early 2000s. “At first, it was just a shrub here or there,...

As much as I love the summer months, my most-liked season is fall. I love fall the most just for the fact that my favorite hobby is deer hunting. Summ...

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

Public land shrinks more and more each hunting season, and along with it, the amount of game available. Instead of getting frustrated, an enterprising...

Let the festivities and merriment of the season take over. The 21st Annual Festival of Trees Auction opens its doors at 5:30 p.m. Thursday at the Brad...

A family camping trip to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park turned tragic after a tree toppled onto their tent and killed a 7-year-old girl insid...

The initial news accounts sounded so similar to past years that they were almost repetitive: A wildfire had broken out in a national park and was burn...

Sunlight filtered through the overstory of a thick Pennsylvania forest and a few rays fell upon the long, serrated leaves of the American chestnut tre...

ERIE — Penelec, a subsidiary of FirstEnergy Corp., continues to conduct tree-trimming work in communities across its Pennsylvania service area as part...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — While the name of the target insect has been changed to spongy moth, from the familiar gypsy moth, the attack remains much the same...

UNIVERSITY PARK — In the middle of April, we’re experiencing one of the (hopefully) last gasps of winter for the season. While nature can still surpri...

UNIVERSITY PARK — Since the 1990s, scientists have been predicting that North American tree species will disappear from portions of their ranges withi...

Bradford’s Main Street pear trees are beautiful. They are delicate, with slim trunks and plentiful branches. Their flowers are a blizzard of snowflake...

UNIVERSITY PARK — Over the past few years, it seems as though insects went mainstream. In spring of 2020, nightly news shows “buzzed” about the arriva...

The beautiful but odoriferous Bradford pear trees along Boylston Street in the City of Bradford are an invasive species, and Pennsylvania is in the pr...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — The first two weekends of December are typically the busiest of the year for purchases of live Christmas trees. This year may be bu...