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Outdoors

Outdoor community calendar for Week of Dec. 2

HOLIDAY WREATHS WITH PETE GSTALDER WHERE: Rider Park WHEN: Sunday, Dec. 7 (1-3 p.m.) NOTES: Rider Park is hosting a event making holiday wreaths twice with Pete Gstalder. Both days are a cost of $20 cash the day of the program. The fee goes towards the material costs and Gstalder’s ...

Wellsboro’s Stiner competed in national bass fishing event

With his regular season wrapped up, Colegan Stiner of Wellsboro advanced to the Toyota Series Championship on Grand Lake O’ the Cherokees in Oklahoma earlier this month. The Toyotoa Series Championship ran Nov. 6-8 and is considered a historic tournament with the best of the best anglers ...

Could it be possible that birds enjoy playing?

My friend and I had just stepped out of May’s Drive-In late one October morning when she pointed to a large black bird on the telephone pole across the highway, near the east end of the Lewisburg river bridge. Looking closer, we saw there were actually two crow-sized black birds, both with ...

Reflections in Nature: Many animals seek shelter, dens in winter

Are you prepared for another Pennsylvania winter? Our furnace and chimney have been cleaned, filters have been replaced, woodshed is full and Mary Alice has our warm coats, scarves, mittens and boots ready for frosty weather. Wildlife shares these same human instincts. They have been seeking ...

A constitutional right to hunt and fish?

A recent move by our neighbors in Ohio to make hunting and fishing constitutionally protected activities has raised some questions here in the Keystone State. Is hunting and fishing constitutionally protected here? What does it mean to protect such activities constitutionally? And what, if ...

December: The advent mystery of new beginnings in nature

Yet another miracle of nature becomes apparent in December: the diverse and curious means that animals, birds and insects have developed to survive winter conditions. When we think of hibernation, bears most likely come to mind. Bears actually begin to prepare for hibernation in the summer ...