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Gary San Julian knew it was a sign of the changing times. But how in the heck, he wondered, could someone in wildlife management be effective unless they knew something about hunting and hunters?
So, about a decade ago, the Penn State professor emeritus of wildlife resources started a hunting-immers...

That's 11-year-old Manheim Township climber Cameron Horst playing Spider Man, making worldwide news as he scales the God's Own Stone route at Kentucky's Red River Gorge on April 9.
The route carries a difficulty rating of 5.14a, a level achieved by only a few hundred climbers on the planet — o...

Pollination isn't sexy and it's one of those things in nature that's kind of taken for granted.
But the news lately has not been good. Honey bee colonies are collapsing from a type of insecticide. Native bees are declining from diseases and habitat loss. Invasive species of plants are crowding out t...

Lancaster native and poison frog scientist Justin Yeager has no qualms about soliciting funds on the Internet to continue his research in the rain forests of Panama.
In fact, for $12,000 or more, he'll even devote a sentence-long tattoo to you on his body.
He cares that much about his work on the st...

 

Bob Bachman and his son have had some pretty extreme fishing adventures together.
There was the long journey to Russia's Kola Peninsula, above the Arctic Circle, to fish for Atlantic salmon and grayling. And casting for striped marlin and roosterfish on the tip of Mexico's Baja Peninsula.
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If you care about trails, open space, local parks, natural areas and recreation, it is the most unkindest of cuts.
Actually, Gov. Tom Corbett isn't just proposing to cut $30 million next year from the Keystone Recreation, Park and Conservation Fund in a cash-strapped budget year.
He's proposing to e...

In the summer of 1948, Dr. Ruth Patrick, an upstart female scientist from The Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, and her hand-picked crew of about a dozen descended on Lancaster County.
During the next three months of summer heat, they waded and scooped up plants, fish and microscopic alga...

 

Are you a woman interested in hands-on projects to restore some of Lancaster County's highest-quality streams?
Have you an interest in learning how to fish with a fly rod?
Faye Haering believes that there are more women out there that fit such a bill.
She thinks that there are more than th...

It's like New Orleans never celebrating its jazz origins. Or Williamsport not having a Little League.
In the annals of weaponry, the development of the Lancaster  Long Rifle — please, no one say Kentucky Rifle — was an illustrious achievement.
It became a symbol of venturing forth i...

Are red foxes eating your garbage?
Are secretive local coyotes snatching pets?
Does the presence of these two predators — almost certainly around in numbers higher than you think — actually help the diversity of local wildlife?
Is there any need to fear these two predators or should we l...