zoology

OLEAN — Despite cutting mosquito spraying out of the 2019-20 city budget, officials will continue using off-the-shelf pesticides again this year. Sinc...

MINNEAPOLIS — Established in a time of crisis, after greed, ignorance and drought combined to decimate North American waterfowl populations, the Migra...

WARBA, Minn. — In a dense forest of young alder, aspen and maple trees north of town, Debbie Petersen hollered for her dog, Riley, to slow down. She d...

Bass fishing is only days away, and I’m excited. You can’t help but marvel at the incredible diversity and balance of God’s creations. What a marvelou...

A non-hunter happened to overhear a conversation I had with another spring gobbler hunter. I was ecstatic having finally bagged a beautiful bird the d...

Some people are cat people. Others are dog people. A few are mixed saying they keep both around the house or farm. I am very squarely in the cat lover...

As seems to happen so many times, the gobblers were extremely active up to and including the last week in April. Then, just as if they had the opening...

If someone had asked me to write a Hollywood movie script for the perfect spring on the Twin Tiers, I don’t think I could have written a better one th...

Looking for something a little different for your Memorial Day camping experience? Or maybe you want to make plans for a long Fourth of July weekend i...

WELLSVILLE— The Wellsville community gathered to honor its veterans at their Memorial Day parade Monday. Sunny skies and 65 degree early afternoon tem...

RED HOUSE — More than 700 have registered for the 61st annual Allegany Nature Pilgrimage in Allegany State Park May 31-June 2. It is hosted by the Aud...

When Jim Acker of Smethport first traveled to Missouri hunting spring turkeys it was some 20 years ago. He’d been introduced to a farmer near Browning...

The clock has whirled rapidly around, the circle has completed itself and another spring is upon us. Another month of spring turkey lies ahead. I myse...

JOHNSTON, R.I. — The proverbial, unprintable question about bears finally has an answer: not just in the woods. Sometimes, also, in the suburbs of Rho...

BELMONT— An orange cat named Jeter jumped off a handmade plywood cat box and onto the cat tower, then sprinted around his bedroom-sized communal cat r...

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...

OLEAN — Locals interested in helping control feral cat populations are being sought to help with trap-neuter-vaccinate-release efforts. Jamie Lawrence...

April on Chautauqua Lake. The ice was off and the crappies running. I hoped to get in on the action. Up at 5:30, the first streaks of daylight smeared...