By KATIE FINCH Senior Nature Educator Audubon Community Nature Center’s (ACNC) mission, in part, is to build and nurture connections between people and nature. There are a lot of ways to connect to the natural world. It can happen through physical activities such as walking, biking, ...
Turtles are amazing and resilient animals. They are some of the most-loved animals at Audubon Community Nature Center (ACNC), whether they are seen basking on a log by the trail or swimming inside their aquarium in the center’s Discovery Room. Turtles inspired the turtle tower design ...
Mid-summer is typically the time of year that my family reunion occurs, and we come from Texas and Massachusetts and Virginia and closer to settle into Venango County for the weekend. It is where the now-elders grew up and where the childhoods of the cousins were bonded together. Their stories intertwine with ours now, and the next generation is woven in more deeply every year. While the stories don’t change, much else does. Even the drive down, watching the landscape, and noticing where trees are gone or where they have grown up, new fields that are plowed or old ones returning to ...
Imagine living your whole adult life without a mouth. From the moment you reach maturity, you are in the process of starving, your one goal is to mate and then you die. This sounds morbid to our human ears, but it is the reality for a beautiful creature: the Cecropia Moth. Last summer ...
Katie Madigan with her first turkey was the first place photo in the Warren County Treasurer’s Office first Turkey Photo Contest. Barrnone Walleye Fishing Charters donated a Turkey Fryer the top prize and Mr. D’s Seasonings donated All Purpose Seasoning and Hawaiian Huli Huli Seasoning. ...
Photo provided to the Times Observer Thirteen year old, Collin Havers, bagged his first black bear while hunting in Blackville, New Brunswick, Canada. Havers bagged the 250 pound bear with a crossbow on his grandfather, Mark Havers land while spending the week up there.
