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Ordinarily the drive from Olean to Lake Placid is less than seven hours, but it was already dark when I arrived on Sept. 18 after getting a late start...

If you know anything about Oswego, New York, you know that its winters can be brutal — even by Upstate New York standards. Located on the very shoreli...

With the exception of a juvenile golden eagle that I saw flying over Golden Hill State Forest while snowshoeing there on Feb. 7, there have been very ...

There have been some interesting developments in the birding world since my last column, starting with the first-ever New York state record of a limpk...

Most amateur nature photographers will agree that the single most important component of our craft is luck, since that’s what makes an ordinary shot a...

It’s estimated that the universe began 13.8 billion years ago; earth began 4.5 billion years ago; butterflies began 200 million years ago; birds began...

As I do every year around this time I use my staycation to look for dinosaurs. Or, more accurately, to look for the descendants of dinosaurs since bir...

Regular readers of this column know that I’m always looking for publicly accessible locations in Cattaraugus County to enjoy the outdoors whether I’m ...

If you stepped outside on the morning of Feb. 17, you may have noticed something unusual for that time of the year — a southwest wind. But it wasn’t t...