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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...

Some gravitate to the sun and sunny places. For Mark Roye, it's always been ice.

Far from outgrowing his childhood fascination with early whalers, seal hunters and maritime fur traders that roamed the world's most remote and harsh climes, the 1966 graduate of Conestoga Valley High School spent a ...

For seven years now, the litany of diseased, intersex smallmouth bass and sudden fish kills on the Lower Susquehanna River has alarmed anyone who fishes or cares about the mighty river.
Alas, it's getting worse.
Just ask Ephrata angler Joe Raymond, who fishes the Lower Susquehanna hard all year lon...

It was well after midnight and a cold wind blew as the three predator hunters pulled into the Manor Township farm field, their seventh "set" on a night that began at 8 o'clock.
Careful not to slam the doors on the van, the three swung silently into action. Twelve-year-old Corey Rineer slung the .22-...

For a smitten birdwatcher, this time of year can be agony.
Birds' territorial singing is long gone. The fall hawk watches are over. The great migration back north is not yet at hand.
That's not the main reason Greg Grove, a Huntingdon County birdwatcher, came up with the idea of a Pennsylvania winte...

WEIKERT, Union County — As the fire pops and embers sail into the starry night, Harry Smith floats his theory to cure the world, by no means merely in jest.
It goes something like this: If everyone would be required to backpack for at least one week a year and own a bicycle, there would be a s...

You won't find members of Lancaster County's only environmental group staging tree-sitting protests or engaging in "ecotage."
But the volunteer-driven Sierra Club-Lancaster Group is finding ways to quietly improve the local environment while enjoying the heck out of it at the same time.
"We use a mo...

Dorothy Parker still vividly remembers the day she happened to look out the window of the family's North President Avenue home to see her 4-year-old son, Ted, calling to the birds.
"He heard the birds singing." she picks up the story. "Evidently he was trying to make the same sounds. I looked out an...

Someday, Ray and Mary Lou Good figure they will no longer be up to making the long trip from Intercourse to their beloved mountain cabin in Tioga County.
When that day comes, all they will have to do to continue their mountain living is walk downstairs.
After seven years of learning by doing, the co...