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A springtime hike searching for wildflowers after a cold winter and a rainy spring is rewarded — soon or later. For example, I hike a trail each sprin...

HARRISBURG, Pa. — The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission is treating the most recent sighting of a non-native northern snakehead in Pennsylvania as...

Remember giant hogweed, the vile invasive plant species that made a lot of news in New York state a few years ago? Well, the state Department of Envir...

The intentions of programs to spay and neuter while saving the lives of all feral cats are laudable. There is a problem and people are working to solv...

New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has released the draft of a management plan for Upper Cattaraugus Creek fisheries for public c...

LITTLE VALLEY — When everything is added up, removing ash trees and select other species from Cattaraugus County-owned forests could net the county up...

(TNS) Currently western Georgia from Columbus to LaGrange is experiencing an explosion of color like many have never seen. Every maple species seems t...

While the proposed listing of the northern long-eared bat, tri-colored bat and little brown bat on the state’s endangered and threatened species list ...

RED HOUSE — Nearly everyone has seen fireflies in their backyards or in the fields in the summer months. Imagine a lot of fireflies firing up their la...

Oct. 29 will mark the fifth anniversary of Superstorm Sandy making landfall at Brigantine, N.J., where it tore up the Atlantic seaboard as a post-trop...

Allegany, Cattaraugus and Chautauqua counties are included in the state’s expanded restricted zone meant to slow the spread of an invasive pest, the e...

Earlier this spring, we passed along the expectation that it would be an active season for ticks, which can carry disease. A missive received this wee...

PETERSHAM, Mass. (AP) — In a towering forest of centuries-old eastern hemlocks, it's easy to miss one of the tree's nemeses. No larger than a speck of...

CUBA — A plan to rejuvenate young forests in Hanging Bog will move forward after a public hearing Wednesday. The state Department of Environmental Con...

When it comes to mosquitoes, humans are actually lucky. Not all of the 3,500 mosquito species around the world have a taste for humans, or at least no...