2018 was a busy year on the Trails at Jakes Rocks. And the hope is that 2019 is an even busier one. Jim Decker, the Warren County Chamber of Business and Industry’s president and CEO, said that an additional nine miles of trails will be completed this spring. That trail, he said, ...
Do people call you the master of multi-tasking? Do you do a happy dance on those occasions where you kill two birds with one stone, preferably not literally? Fortunately, no super skills are required to be a part of a new event that combines activities that are both good for you and your ...
Allegheny National Forest officials have proposed a “planned rotational management project” that is in “response to recent forest health issues that presently exist or are anticipated to occur” over 7,578 acres in Sheffield Township. “In response to conditions within the Cherry ...
Monday morning, a large plume of dark smoke could be seen rising above eastern Warren. The United Refining Company flare along the Allegheny River was discharging flame and smoke. The Department of Environmental Protection was notified of the situation by both United and ...
The most-used park in the city could be in line for a bit of a facelift. Warren City Council approved an application on Monday that would replace the playground at Beaty Park. City Planner David Hildebrand, citing Beaty as the “city’s most-used park,” said the city would be ...
The Allegheny National Forest has a new acting forest supervisor. Federal officials said on Friday that Linda Jackson has been appointed to the post. The previous permanent forest supervisor, Sherry Tune, announced her retirement last December. At that time, Chris Cook was appointed ...
Construction on the dam at Chapman State Park will shelve not one – but at least two – trout stockings in 2019. The Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission schedules last week stated that an April 4 stocking of rainbow and brown trout has been canceled “due to the ongoing drawdown ...
The Allegheny National Forest has an age demographic problem. Thanks to what amounted to widespread clearcutting in the area through the 1920s, the majority of the forest is about the same age. Warren County School District and the U.S. Forest Service would both like to see a better age ...
When I think about animals that I see during the winter, there are a lot of animals I think of — deer, chickadees, Red Foxes, even squirrels. The one animal I never think of? Opossums. For some reason, the thought of seeing a little opossum waddling through the snow with its naked little ears ...
Behold, the woodchuck lied. After checking a few 10-day weather forecasts, it appears that we have a few days of ice building weather, until about Thursday, then we go into a longer stretch that may allow the ice to persist for what will probably be the end of winter. We are going into the ...
Representatives of waterfowl organizations, interested hunters and the public are invited to attend a briefing on Friday, March 15 on the status of Atlantic Flyway waterfowl populations and proposed federal frameworks for the 2019-20 waterfowl hunting seasons. The briefing will begin at 1 ...
What’s better than one Pennsylvania Game Commission wildlife livestream? Two, of course. The Game Commission has launched its second livestream of the season – video and audio captured at a Monroe County black-bear den and streamed in real time to viewers at www.pgc.pa.gov. There’s ...
You can’t go catch them for a few weeks, but stocked trout will start hitting Warren County waterways next week. Opening day is slated for Saturday, April 13 at 8 a.m. According to the Fish and Boat Commission, roughly 3.2 million trout will be stocked in a total of 707 streams and 127 ...
There’s an old saying, “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure.” The meaning is not literal but, typically, a commentary on how there is no judging for taste — what one person may think is worthless may be cherished by another. So, if you’ve been longing for a discarded ...
For a few nights, the coyotes had been howling and yipping close to the house. We’d even heard foxes barking much closer than usual. One morning, after the evening snow had created perfect tracking conditions, we wandered down to see what we could find. First, a lone coyote’s tracks ...
In May of 2017, two Eastern Hellbenders named Oneka and Tweeg came to Roger Tory Peterson Institute in Jamestown, N.Y., from the Buffalo Zoo to serve as animal ambassadors and help educate people of all ages about this incredible species. The Buffalo Zoo donated the hellbenders’ enclosure ...
During most of the year, a person would not see any indication that huge walleye are hidden beneath the surface of the Allegheny River in Warren County. Fortunately, that time of the year is over for a while. Now is the time when you might actually get up close and personal with these old ...
Pennsylvania Game Commission Executive Director Bryan Burhans recently presented the agency’s annual report to the General Assembly and delivered testimony before the House Game and Fisheries Committee. To view a copy of the agency’s annual report, please visit the Game Commission’s ...
Confirmed cases of Chronic Wasting Disease in Clearfield, Jefferson, and Franklin counties are driving “aggressive management strategies.” The Pennsylvania Game Commission and the U.S. Department of Agriculture — Wildlife Services are teaming up and working with landowners to do ...
What say we get this admission before even getting into the topic of building a bird feeder. If your time is worth much to you, buying a ready-made bird feeder would be much less expensive. This is for folks who just need an easy winter project. Some bird feeders that are ready-made are ...