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PORTVILLE — In 2012, The United Nation’s General Assembly created the first “International Day of Forests.” to celebrate the importance of forests wor...

WELLSVILLE — Members of the village’s tree board want village trustees to increase their budget to preserve Wellsville’s legacy of trees. The tree boa...

Patricia Gerrity of Kentucky contacted us recently with a simple request. Her younger sister, Kate Gerrity of Olean, has been having a particularly di...

The winter solstice is again upon the Northern Hemisphere — arriving at 10:59 a.m. today — and though the year’s shortest day heralds the onset of win...

OLEAN — Turn on the news or Google “the price of Christmas trees in 2021” and it won’t take long before you hear about this year’s nationwide tree sho...

OLEAN — An expanded holiday event schedule, a wintertime blast and a welcome back to warm weather are all on the docket of community events for Olean....

NEW YORK (TNS) — A new study has pinpointed when Vikings first traveled across the Atlantic to North America: 1021, or almost 500 years ahead of Chris...

OLEAN — With more than 4,000 trees in city parks and along the streets, Olean officials updated the public on how they plan to manage them moving forw...

Black trees stretched their gnarled limbs toward the barely discernible, dark gray sky as I silently stole into the hickory grove and sat expectantly....

OLEAN — Efforts to catalog and plan for the city’s public tree population are ongoing, and officials they plan to show off their progress next week. A...

PORTVILLE — The village of Portville is looking to go greener — as in trees. Saturday is the newly designated Portville Arbor Day, and village officia...

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation is asking swimming pool owners to participate in the state’s annual Asian longhorned beetl...

ONOVILLE — The Western New York Land Conservancy is raising funds to purchase a 200-acre forest in the town of South Valley it calls the Allegany Wild...

DUKE CENTER, Pa. — Students at Otto-Eldred Junior/Senior High School had a day of hands-on learning during a natural resource management program Monda...

Friday was Arbor Day, a date set aside throughout the world to raise awareness of trees and the important role that they play in the environment. To m...

OLEAN — A state-backed effort to manage trees in the city will begin May 19, city officials reported. Tree Inventory and Community Forest Management P...

The City of Olean and the Olean Public Library are planning environmentally-friendly activities involving trees this month. Mayor Bill Aiello says tha...

OLEAN — During April, the Olean Area Charter for Compassion will be celebrating Golden Rule Day and Earth Day, in partnership with the Olean Public Li...