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Outdoors

New underwater tool lets ecologists ID fish from sounds

Ithaca, N.Y — Researchers from FishEye Collaborative, a conservation-technology nonprofit, Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics, and Aalto University developed a new tool that combines underwater sound recording and 360° video to pinpoint the ...

Outdoor community calendar for week of Sept. 23

AUDUBON EVENT: CANFIELD ISLAND BIRDWALK WHERE: Canfield Island (GPS address 2870 Greevey Road in Montoursville) WHEN: Saturday, Sept. 27 at 5:30 p.m NOTES: This will be an evening birdwalk at a local hotspot that offers the chance to see and hear a wide variety of species. This will be a ...

Are you your own worst enemy when it comes to hunting?

Every season, I speak to hunters from across the state, each of whom expresses their own degree of success during the recent deer season. Some are happy to say they filled their tags or bagged a personal best buck. Others complain that it was the worst season ever. Blame, or credit, is often ...

Invasive flathead catfish now top predators in Susquehanna River

STATE COLLEGE — Flathead catfish, opportunistic predators native to the Mississippi River basin, have the potential to decimate native and recreational fisheries, disrupting ecosystems in rivers where they become established after their introduction or invasion from a nearby river drainage. ...

Reflections in Nature: All that humans have learned has come from nature

Last Sunday at our church, the congregation sang my favorite hymn: “The Hymn of Promise.” The first verse goes like this: “In the bulb there is a flower, in the seed, an apple tree, “In co-coons, a hidden promise, butterflies will soon be free! “In the cold and snow of ...

DEP report shares outline for three Eureka facilities cleanup and closure

In a Sept. 11 inspection report by the Department of Environmental Protection of the Eureka Services' Second Street facility where an Aug. 17 spill led to fracking wastewater working its way out of a storage container, through a building and eventually into the nearby Susquehanna River's West ...